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