Creating what's next for networks. Constructing resilience in customers, community, or other stakeholders

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Making you the nexus of your
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2. CONVENTIONAL WISDOM

3. REALITY

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We use the power of networks to
best serve our company, clients,
community, and a responsible
world.

5. OUR SOLUTIONS
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Discover the layout of your network
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Help you leverage your network
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Enhance and strengthen your network

6. ENHANCED NETWORK VALUE
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Broader, more targeted marketing
opportunities
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Plentiful and accessible resources/services/
people.
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More resilient and sustainable business
model

7. Through our individual and collective choices,
we can grow into being the economic
institutions, relationships, and culture of a
just, sustainable, and compassionate world of
living economies that work for all.
- David Korten, "Economies for Life”

8. OUR SERVICES IN ACTION
Social Mission-based

9. OUR SERVICES IN ACTION
Social Mission-based
RESULTS
• Network-informed
strategy
• Targeted proposals
• New collaborations
• Increased expertise

10. OUR SERVICES IN ACTION
Small Business

11. OUR SERVICES IN ACTION
Small Business
RESULTS
• Expanded, effective community
engagement
• Strengthened network capacity &
value
• More central leadership position in
sustainability landscape

12. OUR SERVICES IN ACTION
Corporation (online)

13. OUR SERVICES IN ACTION
Corporation (online)
RESULTS
• Increased brand
connection
• Company gets a local feel
• Socially responsible
corporate image

14. IS THERE A MARKET?

17. A DISTINCT APPROACH

20. REAL VALUE
The ethical behavior of firms will enable them
to achieve a competitive advantage, because
they will develop lasting, productive
relationships with these stakeholders.
- McWilliams & Siegel, Academy of Management Review, 2001

21. REAL VALUE
The ethical behavior of firms will enable them
to achieve a competitive advantage, because
they will develop lasting, productive
relationships with these stakeholders.
- McWilliams & Siegel, Academy of Management Review, 2001

22. REAL VALUE
As an independent variable...54 [studies]
pointed to a positive relationship between
corporate social performance and financial
performance.
- Margolis & Walsh, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2003

23. REAL VALUE
As an independent variable...54 [studies]
pointed to a positive relationship between
corporate social performance and financial
performance.
- Margolis & Walsh, Administrative Science Quarterly, 2003

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