The Agitator

June 30, 2009

The UK-based Management Centre recently scored 57 nonprofits on their ability to innovate … a seven step process as conceptualized by the Centre:

1. Ideation — idea generation
2. Integration — cross-pollination of ideas
3. Information — external scanning & sourcing
4. Selection — identifying ideas to take forward
5. Support — develop ideas into offerings
6. Launch — bringing the idea to fruition and setting expections re returns
7. Learning — establishing what can be improved and learned from

34 US charities were included, and their relative strengths were found to be Ideation and Information; their weakness was Launch. And we thought Americans were Do-ers!

Here’s the report. If you would like to "do this at home" for your own organization, check out our earlier post on the Centre’s approach.

Tom

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