Social Enterprise Patterns

Kevin TeoAdjunct Senior Research Fellow

How do we learn about Social Enterprises today?

Case Studies

Online Profiles

Site Visits

Videos .. list goes on

The Challenge

1. SEs are highly variegated – difficult to put existing material into context

2. Market is “thin” – not much basis to perform industry or sector based study

3. Little comparative study on the SEs that might be similar

By contextualizing social enterprises into patterns, we can improve the

learning process in this field.

Benefit of Patterns

Understand invariants within patternsExplore variants within patterns

Identify outliers that don’t fit patterns

Business Model Canvas

BMC for SE Patterns

Social Canvas

Commercial Canvas

From Organization Profiles

Social CanvasCommercial Canvas

2. Map each block to attribute

taxonomy

1. Create Canvases

Attribute RS

Attribute CS

Attribute CH

Attribute KP

Attribute CO

micro credit

B O P

crowd funding

To Patterns

SE Patterns (beta)

SE Patterns profile

SE Pattern

What’s next?

- Go deep: further analysis into each attribute space

- Go broad: identify more related orgs, more patterns

- Build Community: SE Business Modelers, Case writers, Intermediaries, “New” social entrepreneurs

- Engage Social Entrepreneurs: patterns form basis of conversation between students and entrepreneurs

Contactkevinteo@nus.edu.sg