Impact Measurement and Management Consulting
You are an investor. Every time money moves, this is an investment. You make dozens of investment decisions everyday. Every item you buy in your local store is a decision and an opportunity to invest in ethical providers or a healthy lifestyle. Every time you buy clothes you have a choice to invest your money … Continue reading You’re an investor and you don’t know it
You may be great. Your product or service may be wonderful. It is relevant and valuable to the extent that it solves a problem for us or addresses one of our needs. We buy the difference you make in our lives. We buy your help in making us the hero of our own lives.
When having a conversation about the impact of an initiative, often there is a lack of common understanding across the basic definitions of the elements of an impact journey. It is not uncommon to see ‘output’, ‘outcome’ and ‘impact’ being used interchangeably and interpreted differently. This may create confusion especially when you would like to … Continue reading I say ‘outcome’, you say ‘output’: Let’s get our definitions right!
As an impact measurement and management and Social Return on Investment (SROI) practitioner, I would like to talk about one of the questions that I get asked frequently: what is the difference between the economic value versus the social value of an ‘output’ or ‘outcome’? And to illustrate this difference, I will elaborate on the … Continue reading What is the difference between economic value and social value when monetizing your impact?
Melek De-Wint 