Business Models Beyond Profit – Social Entrepreneurship Lecture
Business Models Beyond Profit, is a slide deck that has been making the rounds within a number of social enterprise circles lately, incorporating critical elements of social and environmental impact, on top of the necessary condition of generating revenue in order to be self-sustaining. In other words, the essence of social enterprise.
If you would like to understand the relationship between social entrepreneurship, social enterprise and social innovation and how they all seemingly relate to one another, I would encourage you to read my previous blog post on this topic.
I have found the Business Model Canvas to be an extremely useful tool when thinking about some of the projects and ideas that I am currently working on. Hopefully, you will find it useful as well, especially if you have found yourself hitting a brick wall when it comes to developing a business model(s) for your own ideas/startup ventures.
See and download the full gallery on posterous
Credit goes to Alex Osterwalder and his team over at Business Model Generation for their work in putting this resource together.
Continuing the discussion on social enterprise, I am also looking forward to attending the 3rd Canadian Conference on Social Enterprise, set to take place in Toronto November 18-20, 2009.
As part of the conference, a policy forum will be held November 19-20 for social enterprise practitioners, funders, government, academics and others interested in shaping policy that will help stimulate the social enterprise sector in Canada. In preparation for the policy forum, the organizers have set up a wiki and have asked for input to help craft a National Policy Agenda for Social Enterprise, founded on six pillars:
This should be interesting, and Im looking forward to the discussions and the action items that emerge from the conference.
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