Stage Four: How to make it happen
This stage is about putting your plans into action.
By now you will have assessed your business, examined future opportunities, and put an in-depth strategy in place. After all that planning, these tools will help you to make things happen. After using these tools, you'll be running an efficient, focused creative business and be in the best possible place for the future upturn.
The Tools
- Change Management
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Transformational and transactional change
A model to look at different aspects of change and interdependencies in organisations -
An eight-stage change process
A tool to help you consider the steps needed in a change project for your business
- Partnerships / Collaboration
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Assessing your collaboration
A set of criteria to help you assess how your group is working -
Joint working success factors
The tool lists a number of success factors for assessing your joint working projects. -
Collaboration maturity model
Criteria for assessing the stage your collaboration has reached in its development
- Fundraising
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Six pillars of fundraising
Using the six pillars of fundraising to develop your funding strategy
- Marketing and communications
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Strategic circles
A matrix to help you consider your relationship to others in your field/market -
The marketing mix – the 4Cs
A customer centric approach to looking at your marketing
- Decision making
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Deciding between different options
A tool to help you analyse different alternatives during the decision making process
- Preparing for the upturn
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Preparing for the upturn
A method for looking at your environment and considering trends and impact