Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good

Lean Impact is a book that offers bold ideas to reach audacious goals through customer insight, rapid experimentation, and iteration, and a relentless pursuit of impact. It provides a unique perspective from across sectors and illustrates the book with real stories from interviews with over 200 organizations.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 14 December 2018
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Despite significant investments of time and money, are we making a meaningful impact on the social and environmental challenges of our time? What if we could exponentially increase our impact?

Around the world, a new generation is seeking purpose beyond mere profits. However, unlike the business world, few social interventions have achieved significant scale. Inspired by the modern innovation practices popularized by the bestseller "The Lean Startup," which have fueled technological breakthroughs across various aspects of our lives, Lean Impact aims to achieve a new goal: radically greater social good.

Social change is a complex and multifaceted endeavor that requires a deep understanding of the issues at hand. It demands more than just building new apps; it necessitates active listening, empathy, and collaboration among a diverse range of stakeholders. To create lasting change, solutions must address the root causes of problems, resonate with beneficiaries, and incorporate an engine that can drive growth and reach the scale of the need.

Lean Impact presents bold ideas and strategies to achieve audacious social goals through customer insights, rapid experimentation, and continuous improvement. Author Ann Mei Chang brings a unique perspective, having worked as a tech executive in Silicon Valley and as the Chief Innovation Officer at USAID. She vividly illustrates the book with real-life stories from interviews with over 200 organizations across the United States and around the world.

Whether you are a nonprofit, social enterprise, triple-bottom-line company, foundation, government agency, philanthropist, impact investor, or simply someone who contributes time and money to social causes, Lean Impact is an essential guide for maximizing social impact and achieving scale. By applying the principles and practices outlined in this book, we can work together to create a more equitable and sustainable world for all.

Weight: 432g
Dimension: 148 x 223 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119506607