Practice Areas

 

Most of New Sector’s client engagements fit into one of six practice areas, including growth and scaling, marketing, operations, performance management, strategy, and talent development: 

 

Growth and Scaling
We have found that most successful social enterprise leaders are driven by an unrelenting desire to effect systemic and lasting change. Achieving this type of impact presents unique challenges. In advising clients on the most systematic way to expand their reach, New Sector starts with a broad universe of growth frameworks and then zeroes in on the strategy most aligned with the mission and agenda of the client.

 

Marketing
Effectively communicating an organization’s distinctive strengths to a diverse set of stakeholders is critically important. New Sector helps clients to focus their marketing efforts on the right people and the right channels to produce the greatest social and economic returns. Above all, we strive to ensure that these efforts resonate with the values of the client organization and the environment in which it operates.

 

Operations
New Sector is committed to helping clients achieve operational excellence. Through efficient and effective operations, organizations can make the most of the resources available to them.  With this in mind, combining strategic thinking with hands-on implementation, New Sector develops, defines, and executes operational strategies that help our clients solve their most critical problems.

 

Performance Management
All social enterprises – nonprofit, for-profit, and public – are under increasing pressure to measure impact. Although these organizations cannot always monitor their performance in metrics as quantifiable as dollars and cents, they can demonstrate, in precise terms, the extent of their impact on stakeholders. New Sector works with clients to identify the metrics that matter most, then to use those metrics to improve performance.

 

Strategy
Social innovators produce an astonishing array of ideas and methods for bringing about change across sectors. New Sector believes that strategy is the means through which to tie these ideas together into a set of coherent, mission-focused activities. Clear strategies, goals, and objectives allow organizations to adapt quickly in the face of change and to identify new opportunities.

 

Talent Development
New Sector clients across sectors say that talent recruitment and development is one of their foremost concerns. People are the building blocks and most important assets of all nonprofit, for-profit, and public organizations.  Attracting, training, coaching, retaining and managing staff and Board members is an ever present management challenge.  To address these crucial issues, New Sector provides organizational and individual consulting, training, and coaching services to clients. 

 

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