11 search results for “human resources mangenment”

  1. Business model generation canvas - visioning
    Business Model Generation[1] is a relatively new approach but it has already been widely applied across a range of sectors and features in Susan Royce’s recent report on business models in the visual arts. Ultimately, the intention of the approach is to create value and replace outmoded models. It is based…
  2. Bright Spots
    The concept behind bright spots is that often big problems are most easily solved by a series of small solutions; there is seldom one big solution. The approach is based on the work that Jerry Sternin, of Save the Children, did in Vietnam to improve infant nutrition. He found that…
  3. Business model generation canvas – reviewing where you are
    Business Model Generation[1] is a relatively new approach but it has already been widely applied across a range of sectors and features in Susan Royce’s recent report on business models in the visual arts. The intention of the approach is to help businesses create value and replace outmoded models of…
  4. Activity Model - understanding your portfolio
    This tool provides an approach to ensuring that your creative vision and financial goals are fully integrated so that their relative strengths are understood. The Matrix Map (Bell, Masaoka, & Zimmerman, 2010)helps you to look at your whole portfolio – all the things you do, from the basis of contribution…
  5. Improving your business processes
    This technique gives you a visual approach to modelling big processes and focusing activity to solve process weaknesses. The tool has been adapted from the Integration Definition for Function Modelling (IDEF) methodology, but don’t let that mouthful put you off! It was developed in the 1970s and is designed to…
  6. Levels of joint working
    Inter-organisational working, collaboration, partnership … Call it what you will, the drivers for businesses coming together to deliver activities are growing. However, in building a joint working initiative the participants do not always consider the nature of the group they are building. This is important in shaping the success factors…
  7. How healthy is your fundraising?
    Understanding the relative strengths of your various fundraising activities is important in helping you to decide where to invest your resources. Sargeant and Jay (2004) have developed an approach that looks at how attractive your fundraising activities are externally. It also asks how appropriate your activities are for your particular…
  8. Paired comparisons
    Paired comparison is a technique that originates from some of the earliest psychometric tests and has been used by psychologists for many years (Fechner, 1860; Mueller, 1986). It is now a well-developed method for considering a range of different options and it simply involves pairing each item with each of…
  9. Collaboration maturity model
    Collaboration or joint working has been increasingly in the spotlight in all sectors. With the economic downturn forcing a drive towards efficiency and performance improvement, collaboration is likely to come to the fore even more. Some public funders may even expect it of their clients. It is covered in this…
  10. Portfolio analysis – where do you make your money?
    This tool offers two approaches to portfolio analysis. Portfolio analysis means looking at your mix of programming and/or products and/or services and the money they make for you, or not! The first approach was created by the Boston Consulting Group (often known as the BCG or Boston Matrix). It suggests…
  11. Getting social - a social media checklist
    Social media has increasingly become part of the marketing and programming toolkits of many creative and cultural businesses. It is not necessarily a given that it is right for your business but it may be something that you want to give serious consideration. Social media consists of a number of…