July 18, 2016

Unbundle and Scale for Impact

Instead of scaling an entire complex program, identify the essential components that account for most of the impact but require only a fraction of the total cost and effort. Some organizations are separating these components from their larger programs to scale promising efforts.

Transformative Pathways to Improving Health Care
Rebecca Onie, Sarah di Troia and Sonia Sarkar
Health Leads is planning to pilot new fee-based advisory services that decouple specific elements of its model and offering them to a broad range of institutions.

Transformative Scale: The Future of Scaling What Works
Jeff Bradach and Abe Grindle, The Bridgespan Group
KIPP's Leadership Design Fellowship unbundles its principal-development program from its broader charter school model to achieve greater impact more quickly, and at a lower cost.

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