I read a blog and newsletter by the Skoll Foundation and find it mostly eye candy for the rather exciting world of global social entrepreneurs. Most of the time it has very little to do with our issues in innercity UK (we don’t have a problem connecting with the outside world or gaining access to electricity). Except, last night I dug a bit deeper into one of the recommended partner blogs…
Scaling Capacities Blog – a treatise (based on research!) that exposes the traits of successful social entrepreneurs that were able to acheive scale in their nascent operations. (Note: check out at the very bottom: how the focus group scaled. This piece of information appears just as interesting as the entire article.) Good stuff in this blog, and worth a read by social entrepreneurs and enterprises looking to re-affirm the basics of building an organisation based on social mission.
Organizations employed multiple scaling strategies: Three-quarters (77%) scaled by branching, 41% by affiliation and 36% by dissemination.
This is in contrast, I imagine, to the private sector where I am guessing dissemination is the primary scaling component for most businesses because branching would not provide an economy of scale. (But, I am still checking the definition with the authors of the study. Will update when I get a reply.)
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