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What the Best Nonprofits Know About Strategy

Harvard Business

After years of working in tech startups, which strive to transform underdog status into competitive advantage, I dove into the nonprofit world. The contrast was striking: Too few nonprofits use the advantages of their nonprofit status. Product: Build on openness, goodwill, and the wisdom of crowds.

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Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools for Your Business [2024]

Epicflow

It increases productivity Capacity planning software helps ensure that the right resources are available at the right time and aren’t overloaded. This helps maintain high productivity levels. Other Features Product overview Time tracking Workload management Task management Collaboration Templates 9.

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OpenAI’s Failed Experiment in Governance

Harvard Business

OpenAI has undoubtedly succeeded in its product innovations, with ChatGPT. Put in place to guard against the abuse of its product, the company’s unusual structure — a nonprofit that owns a for-profit — proved unpredictable and subject to the whims of its directors. But its governance innovations have failed spectacularly.

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The “Piggyback” Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business

Piggybacks — tactics that capitalize on pre-existing but seemingly unrelated systems and networks — can help organizations create entirely new businesses, diversify sources of revenue, improve products’ appeal, and increase exposure.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. We see this in our research at Columbia University and have identified many examples where CEOs benefit their businesses by partnering across sectors with public officials, nonprofit managers, and community members.

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Succeeding As A Non-Profit Consultant with Elizabeth Woolfe: Podcast #26

Consulting Success

Description: In today’s episode, I’m joined by Elizabeth Woolfe, a passionate consultant with a focus on nonprofit organizations in the healthcare industry. There is a common misconception in the consulting world that working with nonprofit organizations means that there are no profits to be had for consultants. Working Your Network.

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Nonprofits, Foundations, And Capital Formation

The Nonprofit Consultant

Stannard-Stockton's response is demonstrate how nonprofits contribute to the economy, saying, in part: "Nonprofits employ people, nonprofits buy goods and services from for-profits, nonprofits are an important economic engine of the US economy. Stand up for the nonprofit sector; the most productive sector of all.