Scaling and replication: a guide to the best resources
This month on the Hub we are looking at scaling and replicating inclusive business models to increase social impact. Often organisations and businesses find it hard to grow without feeling like they are either compromising their founding principles or their profitability. There is a lot to consider, but luckily there are a lot of reports, case studies and guidance to help you through. We provide a guide to some of the best.
Practitioner Hub, Checklist: Building a scalable enterprise that serves the BoP, 2016
An enterprise seeking to scale in Base of Pyramid markets has many factors to consider. These have to do with the enterprise structure, the business model and relationships with the broader ecosystem. Drawing on experience of hosts of businesses that have or have not scaled, this checklist lists ten elements to consider when building a scalable business model.
Ted London, The Base of the Pyramid Promise: Building Businesses with Impact and Scale’, 2016
Ted London’s book offers concrete guidelines for how to build better enterprises while simultaneously alleviating poverty, and puts forward a 4-part framework developed for thinking about whether a business has the means in place to scale, drawing on examples from Nike, CEMEX, Celtel, Tetra Pak, and many others.
Olivier Kayser and Valeria Budinich, Scaling up Business solutions to Social problems, 2015
Olivier Kayser and Valeria Budinich’s ‘Scaling up Business solutions to Social problems’ has been recently re-released in a French version, with new chapters on agriculture, sanitation and the power of IT. Buy the book here in:
French format and English format
IFC Scaling up inclusive business: advancing the knowledge and action agenda 2010
This report focuses on key issue areas that need to be addressed to move the field of inclusive business forward. 14 different cases of companies which operate in a range of different countries and industry sectors are analysed and a first look provides a preliminary analysis of the drivers, results, and key elements these inclusive business models share.
WBCSD Scaling up inclusive business – Solutions to overcome internal barriers 2013
Sustainability challenges including poverty, social unrest, climate change and environmental degradation have become ever more urgent. Business has the technology, innovation capacity, resources, and skills to play a key role in providing the radical solutions the world desperately needs.
Don’t also miss the recording of the webinar on overcoming external constraints to scale here.
Shell Foundation: Scaling for Impact: A guide for collective action 2015
This guide presents the Shell Foundation and Forum for the Future ‘Scaling Up Impact’ initiative which provides a framework to enable greater collective action between foundations, businesses and organisations working in the development sector. The toolkit details eight building blocks that builds on three components: Forum for the Future’s theory of systemic change; Shell Foundation’s model for change and learning; and historical examples of change and the invaluable insights and experiences of practitioners.
NESTA What does it take to go big? Insights on scaling social innovation 2016
An analysis of more than 50 social innovations in the UK this report identified four key areas that every social innovation looking to scale must get right; scaling what works, addressing need and creating demand, finding the right routes to scale and building capacity and capability to scale.
GIZ & GSEN Grow – Scale – Impact 2016
The new handbook from GIZ & GSEN guides readers through the process of setting up an acceleration programme for business with purpose.
This blog is part of the November 2016 series on Scaling and replicating inclusive business models, in partnership with DFID and SEED. Explore with us the key ingredients of a pathway to scale, debates and new ideas on replication, and look at what small companies, large companies and ecosystem actors can do.