Success & Failure

Stack the Odds in Your Favour: How to Know if Your Tech for Good Project Will Succeed (before you’ve even begun)

January 7, 2019 By Joe Roberson

Rather like predicting which horse will win a race, the trained eye can tell which Tech for Good projects are most likely to be successful. There’s some pedigree advice in this article.

You’re a charity chief exec. You’re planning a Tech for Good project or maybe you’ve won a grant. How can you be sure you’ve got a good chance of success? How can you stack the odds in your favour?

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How to Know If Your Early Stage Tech for Good Project Is Being Successful

September 3, 2018 By Joe Roberson Leave a Comment

Understand what early stage success looks like and you’ll be well placed to set the right expectations for your team and funders.

If you’re a funder then understand that definitions of success for these projects can’t be measured by number of users or volume of impact, not even by size of product delivered.

We asked nine of our current project cohort to define what success might look like when their grant ends.

Did they say “a finished product“? Did they say “a fully launched digital service“?

No. The majority described success as [Read more…] about How to Know If Your Early Stage Tech for Good Project Is Being Successful

3 Tragic Reasons Why Tech for Good Projects Fail

August 20, 2018 By Joe Roberson Leave a Comment

If you understand the common reasons why tech for good projects fail then you’ll feel more confident about how to avoid them.

Many charities fear failing at tech projects. That’s not surprising given the amount of money historically squandered on digital projects (NHS IT system anyone?).

But we’ve got to try. Or risk going to the wall if we don’t.

Trying starts by taking small steps and learning as you go. It means building digital services and organisational capacity to solve user problems aswell as social ones. It’s a journey every charity is going to have to make over the next decade. So it’s inevitable there will be failures. That’s OK. [Read more…] about 3 Tragic Reasons Why Tech for Good Projects Fail