APS 1015Scaling Social Innovations

Today’s class

• Guest Speaker: Eyal Rosenblum, Operation Groundswell• Properties of scaling organizations• Debate! Be it resolved that…

Is Scale Good or Bad?

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2 – Properties of Scaling Organizations

Growing Pains

A Game: What Would You Do?

What Would You Do?

Help marginalized people integrateinto the workforce

GoodWill Industries• Create the businesses they use for training• Operate in 15 countries, 6M people• US$3.5B in revenue in 2012

What Would You Do?

Literacy, numeracy education for young children

Sesame Workshop

• 43 seasons

• By age 3, 95% of US children have seen it

• US$85M inprivate revenue(65% of budget)

What Would You Do?

Educate children about global poverty

Free The Children | Me to We• Run a conference, trips, fashion brands• Secured 15 real estate properties• Launched Me to We, a social enterprise donating 50% of

profits to the charity ($1.6M in 2012)

Pattern Spotting

What do these have in common?

Pattern Spotting

What do these have in common?

• Saw their core competencies as assets!• Scalable, tested business model• Template & automate• Professional, fulltime management – NOT a project!• Best in market competition• Strong relationships to investors/funders• Have long term financial & business strategies

Definitions – What We Mean By Scale

Social enterprises are systems

Re/Invest Value in Develop

ment

Develop Product/Service

Surplus

Value

Definitions – What We Mean By Scale

Level of inputs, outputs and reach of systems

Definitions – What We Mean By ScaleScalable: Design capable of growing a system from

smaller to larger scales

Definitions – Scalable Design

MORE v. MARGIN

Takes less and less input over time to produce the same amount

Definitions – NPO vs SEMORE leads to novelty, clutter, lack of focus (common NPO problem, but not exclusive to NPO)

MARGIN requires laser focus, specialization

3 – Debate!

Be it resolved that scale creates more negative impact than positive impact

Be it resolved that scale creates more negative impact than positive impact

• 3 minute opening remarks• 1 minute rebuttal • 3 minutes Q&A• 1:30 minute closing remarks