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The Phases of Service Design

Forum One

There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype. Phase 1: Align You’ve decided to embark on a service design project! It’s crucial to understand why you’re embarking on this project and to ensure other stakeholders understand it as well. Phase 2: Research The next phase is research.

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7 tips for preparing your nonprofit for a move to new software

EveryAction

Be sure this person is allowed enough time to manage the software implementation project and regular work tasks, which might require pausing some of the person’s tasks or temporarily shifting tasks to other staff members in the organization until the software implementation project is completed. Locate your data. Do a data clean-up.

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The Phases of Service Design

Forum One

There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype. Phase 1: Align. You’ve decided to embark on a service design project! It’s crucial to understand why you’re embarking on this project and to ensure other stakeholders understand it as well. Phase 2: Research. Phase 3: Ideation.

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To Build or Buy a Software Solution: Which is Right for You?

Association Analytics

Implementing a new software solution is a huge project. This may include new staff or reassigned staff from other important projects. Additionally, it’s critical that the project road map is managed meticulously to avoid risk of delays that can lead to cost overruns. Costs are clearly spelled out at the onset of the project.

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Getting the board on board with nonprofit technology changes

EveryAction

As you use these questions to engage in dialogue with your board, it helps to remember that board members may have opinions and learned experience about what tools and systems are best. They may even have used similar systems in past roles or managed a large tech implementation at some point in their career. Try one (or both!)

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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

sgEngage

We incorporated learnings and feedback from grantee partners. This was a year-long project that required CDP to closely examine our processes and have bold conversations about how we wanted our grantmaking to look. For process changes like this, there isn’t a set timeframe for each phase of this process.

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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

Throughout countless different phases and stages of life as a human being, we know that things will always be changing. Technological change – new software and systems. According to the ADJAR Model, there are three phases to change. Phase 1: Prepare your Approach. Phase 2: Manage Change. Phase 3: Sustain Outcomes.