Filling a Community Need
Means taking the critical first step to see your effort succeed: define the impact it needs to have.
Once you’ve done that, build the right team of experts and influencers and watch the change start to happen.
If the solution is strategy, policy, or practice . . .
If the solution is to build something important . . .
Strategy
creates the guideposts
and
Practice
creates the change
the impacts desired and the challenges to beat
identify community needs and assets, determine measures that matter, confirm outcomes and requirements for success
goals and strategies for realizing the impact
determine vision and goals, identify influencers and champions, set timelines and targets, build a team
the community that will be part of the solution
reach those most impacted, gain perspectives, define touchstones, communicate progress
lead the transition from idea to reality
evaluate possibilities, develop roadmap, create the story, build a platform for change
Are you ready?
find a better solution
We have seen too many good ideas fail. One way we overcome this is connecting with the community from the very beginning. It reduces the exclusion that often breeds resistance to a change and aligns the effort with community interests.