Social Value Engine
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We design organisations, networks and communications for social change.
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Beyond social impact to social value
With all public bodies now obliged to take social value into account when buying services, it is important to differentiate it from social impact, says Dom Potter
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“Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This is necessary right now, or else men will not be able to attain even that which is possible today.”
Max Weber
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
Peter Drucker
A social value engine
This space has been set up to explore a set of questions and to see if anything comes out the other side.
Some (but not all) of the questions:
- Can we capture the value that what we do has on the world?
- Can we get beyond the insufficient snapshots that so-called social impact tools offer us?
- What if we could create a story of impact, a narrative of value, a portfolio of outcomes, a constellation of consequences, a network effect of what we do?
- What would that look like?
- How rich, detailed and deep could we go whilst ensuring it is simple and easy to understand?
- How can we use the big data out there in open datasets, combined with the micro-narratives of Twitter and rich qualitative data of photos, audio and video clips effectively together?
- What is your social value and what are you doing to improve it?
If any of these questions strike a chord or if there are any which should be here, let me know dom [at] socialvalueengine [dot] co [dot] uk
“Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.”
Steve Jobs
