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Five Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation

LDRLB

Nonprofits face a fundamental “business” challenge: they’re “nonprofits.” millions US nonprofits don’t support themselves through “competing” or creating better products, services, or business models. Historically, the typical nonprofit business model has been based on dependence. Most of the 1.5

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Stop Me Before I “Innovate” Again!

Harvard Business Review

Robert MacDonald , the most creative and opinionated insurance-industry executives I’ve ever met (yes, I know, he doesn’t have tons of competition), likes to say that the art of doing something new is a matter of “reminiscing about the future.” It’s also a spirit, oddly enough, best captured in a famous tribute to the Grateful Dead rock band.