As we are secure in our core values and social entrepreneurship approach, it is our guiding principles that lead us to effective and efficient strategic and tactical design and implementation.

"Rather than focusing on a specific product or service, microconsignment is an innovation method of organizing that, like a business model, identifies how all the elements of a system fit into a working whole." 

Brett R. Smith
Founding Director
Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Miami University

Flexibility:

• Strategy and tactics should include not only set requirements and procedures but also should encourage the use of guidelines that will be instructive so as to motivate institutional, organizational, community and individual/entrepreneur participation.
• As both predictable and unpredictable circumstances arise, leadership representation at all levels should be allowed to change without negatively affecting results.

Appropriateness:

• The strategy and tactics should not be imposed on individuals and communities but rather proposed as an opportunity for intelligent impact generation.
• Designed strategies and tactics must be appropriate given the particular community members’ integrity, capabilities, experience and objectives.
• Strategies and tactics designed and implemented at all levels should reflect the current reality and should include no conflictive elements.

Self-Sustainability:

• Those community members that have proven/are proving their potential should be given prioritization.
• Leadership at all levels must be given the tools, training, funding and guidance to achieve both administrative and financial self-sustainability.
• Financing terms must always seek to find the balance between providing community members with the most compelling means to achieve success while ensuring that the greater administrative and financial goals are being met.
• Leadership must always question and listen and be empathetic and supportive of struggling beneficiaries but must act professionally in order to stay mission focused.
• Intermediate and long-term projected results should be analyzed continuously in order to modify the strategy and tactics so as to provide the best opportunity for sustainability on all levels.

Growth Potential:

• Models, ventures and individuals that have the greatest opportunity for growth and impact should receive priority support and financing.
• All stakeholders should have a vested interest in growth in order to both provide more opportunities and to create a sense of ownership.
• Professional growth for all stakeholders through training, support and open communication should be prioritized as a means to create increased scale and impact in the future.

 

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