Efficiency

Efficiency
Primary link:
Knowledge Development
Developing Knowledge to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Core Practices:

  • Development of appropriate technology.
  • Conduct a down-market needs analysis.
  • Develop more efficient supply chain models.
Secondary link:
Resource Mobilization
Mobilizing Resources to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Synergies:

  • Mobilize resources that directly support knowledge development.
  • Use valuation techniques to account for the hidden costs of resources.

Tensions:

  • Those not wanting to support development costs are not suited for innovation.
Tertiary link:
Culture Management
Managing Culture to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Synergies:

  • Promote work ethic among social clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Promote a mindset in support of knowledge sharing.

Tensions:

  • Be mindful of the fact that promoting a more competitive business attitude might impede efforts to promote knowledge sharing.
Quaternary link:
Stakeholder Engagement
Engaging Stakeholders to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Synergies:

  • Leverage stakeholders’ knowledge and skills by promoting the concept of “user-led innovation”.

Tensions:

  • Increasing stakeholder engagement required accepting slower stakeholder-driven trial and error processes.

Developing Knowledge to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Developing Knowledge to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Core Practices:

  • Implement R&D efforts to increase productivity and reduce costs through development of appropriate technology.
  • Use and expand market research methods to conduct a down-market needs analysis.
  • Employ market research and business planning activities to develop more efficient supply chain models.

Mobilizing Resources to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Mobilizing Resources to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Synergies:

  • Mobilize resources that directly support knowledge development (e.g. access to R&D facilities, intellectual property rights, skilled professionals).
  • Use and expand business valuation practices better to take into account the hidden costs of resources (e.g. "free" resources might be inefficient because expensive to maintain, etc.).

Tensions:

  • Be wary of resource providers who want to pay for implementing solutions without bearing the development cost; they might be fine to support scaling of existing well-tested activities, not development of new innovative ones.

Managing Culture to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Managing Culture to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Synergies:

  • Promote work ethic among social clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Promote a mindset in support of knowledge sharing.

Tensions:

  • Be mindful of the fact that promoting a more competitive business attitude might impede efforts to promote knowledge sharing.

Engaging Stakeholders to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Engaging Stakeholders to Achieve Greater Efficiency

Synergies:

  • Leverage stakeholders’ knowledge and skills by promoting the concept of “user-led innovation,” that is giving stakeholders the right and ability to innovate at the grassroots level in order to benefit from your stakeholders’ unique mix of skills and knowledge.

Tensions:

  • Be mindful than promoting greater stakeholder engagement might require limiting top-bottom interventions in process development, at times taking a more circuitous route involving stakeholder-driven trial and error processes.