The UK-based Management Centre recently scored 57 nonprofits on their ability to innovate … a seven step process as conceptualized by the Centre:
- Ideation — idea generation
- Integration — cross-pollination of ideas
- Information — external scanning & sourcing
- Selection — identifying ideas to take forward
- Support — develop ideas into offerings
- Launch — bringing the idea to fruition and setting expections re returns
- 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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