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For-purpose business models part three: who are your customers and what will you offer them?

For-purpose business and social enterprise is catching on. Customers want it. Employees are excited about it. Investors are backing it. And the world needs it.

So what’s the next step in making for-purpose business simply ‘business as usual’? We have to go to the heart of strategy and understand business model design.

In part one and two of this series we explored the need for for-purpose businesses and articulating your impact model via a strategic architecture. Part three covers your customers, what you’ll sell them and how to wrap it up in a value proposition. Get your copy of the workbook. Read more

Reimagining your social enterprise business model post Covid-19 (part three): the seven steps

After the shakeup of Covid-19, many of us will be in crisis and survival mode. But now is also the time to be thinking about the future and recovery phase. There will be new market opportunities as services and products are reimagined, new needs from our communities, and a more open space for business models with purpose as we question an economic system that valued GDP above all else.

In the previous two parts of this series, we covered the components of a social enterprise business model, the trade-offs that have to be managed and the 16 social enterprise model types. Part three of the series explores seven steps to consider when pivoting or building a social enterprise business model with tools and tips along the way. Read more

Reimagining your social enterprise business model post Covid-19 (part two): the 16 social enterprise model types

The post-Covid world may offer new opportunities to push social enterprise as a force for good. But getting the business model right will be crucial. Part two in our three part series reveals the 16 social enterprise business model types, to spark ideas about how you could pivot your own business model.  Read more