Episode 4 of ‘Building social value from scratch’: No thresholds
Picture the least interesting contract a council could possibly sign. Toilet roll. A bin order. Uniforms for the leisure centre. Nobody writes a case study about bins, do they? And nobody thinks of social value when it comes to bins, either. The job’s too small, and it sits under some threshold. It’s a purchase, not […]
Building social value from scratch: Episode 3: Score the plan, not the promise
magine signing off a building on a rough sketch, a pinky promise, or a good feeling. I assume you’d want the specification. What it’s made of, what it can hold, who’s laying the foundations and what they’ve built before. You’d also want to make sure it’s up to standard, that people have the right idea […]
Building social value from scratch: Episode 2: An economy, not a gold rush
The phone went at about nine in the evening. A company I had never worked with, bidding for a contract worth more than my house. They had done everything. The technical response, the pricing, the case studies, the method statement. Everything except the social value section. Could I write something by the morning? I told […]
Building social value from scratch. Episode 1: The blank page
The first episode of ‘Building social value from scratch: seven pieces, one question. If you were designing a social value system from a blank page, how would you do it right?’ —- A few weeks ago I spoke at ISVCON for the Institute of Social Value at the ExCeL in London. It was an […]
