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Newdea – Our Impact Lessons
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Impact is a journey
“Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the
journey”
A Successful Journey includes:
1. A great “Theory of Change”
2. Back the right people
3. Understand the DIKW Continuum
4. Invest in the right tools
5. Create an innovation culture
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Theory of Change
Have an Outcome Based Mindset
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The Theory of Change
The Theory of Change process involves defining and mapping all of the necessary and sufficient preconditions required to
bring about a given long-term outcome.
Can success and failure be properly evaluated?
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DATA KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION WISDOM
Planning Transparency
Accountability Strategy
Learning
Innovation
High Performance
Collaboration
Implement a DIKW Continuum Strategy
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Business Intelligence
Business Process
Services
Business Productivity
Services
Computing & Application
Services
IT Spending strategy to achieve higher Impact and Efficiency
Current average spending:
.75% - 1% of revenues
Current average spending:
.25% of revenues
Commoditized (Cost Centers)
Strategic (Investment)
Social Sector:
Leading humanitarian agencies spend between .5% to 2.4% of their budgets on IT compared 2.9% to 8.5% for the private sector. Lower investments yield a lower ROI on Impact and Efficiency!
Leverage information and knowledge to measure performance, aid decision making
Automate key workflows and gather information about the business
Deliver to employees the basic tools needed to communicate and collaborate
A secure and scalable IT services infrastructure foundation for growth, performance and reliable computing
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Walt Disney He was fired by a newspaper editor because, "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didn't last too long and ended with bankruptcy and failure.
Thomas Edison In his early years, teachers told Edison he was "too stupid
to learn anything." Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough.
Even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.
Failure is the highway to success. "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.” Tom Watson Sr.
Systematically Learning From Failure Leads to Success
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• Translate ESG reporting into sustainable business value
Corporate Environmental Social & Governance (ESG)
• Improve program funding with up-to-date performance metrics against clearly defined objectives
Grant-Making Organization
• Provide your partners with the right M&E solutions to collaborate and track aggregated outcomes
Government
• Attract Investors and create impact through a well-defined and executed theory of change
Impact Investment Fund
• Manage your programs to achieve full-scale outcomes and provide reports against your progress
Nonprofit Organization
• Power active collaboration among the private sector, NGO’s and Governments
Consulting Firm