The Social Return Company - trading name for Minney.org Ltd

The Social Return Company makes your business more successful.  Think how much difference it would make if your people feel inspired by and passionate about what they do at work? 

We can make you

  • More Profitable - Project Management and P3M (Project, Programme, Portfolio Management) to the highest standards: delivering change that delivers business case benefits. We include people change and Organisational Development (OD)

Make your team happy - get them engaged

  • Return on Investment (Benefits Management/ Benefits Realisation Management) – we engage your people and clients  to design and implement change.  Do the right things, in the right way, do them well
  • More sales / More income - Social Return on Investment (SROI) techniques to identify, measure and maximise return on investment.  This includes both financial (cash releasing and non-cash releasing) and social (including CSR) outcomes during project and in business as usual.  It’s valuable for process and service improvement.  It is vital for statutory reporting and bid writing both commercial and public sector - we also manage your bids.

We work with you to make you outstanding!  We will improve the way you work and the contribution you make through engagement and relevant measurement.   You can expect to see increased sales/income; better profits and understanding what makes you profitable; lower costs; better staff retention and staff costs.

We use SROI to help you use the Social Value Act 2012 and Localism Act 2011 to your advantage, both for grant applications and public sector/ commercial bids.

Our newest thought leadership on these subjects are below.  You can navigate the web site using the navigation bar on the left.

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If I were running the country - encouraging business

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 09:33

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Minimum wage

Fantasy government - what would I do if I were in government?  Well how about reduce corporation tax, increase income tax, increase minimum wage and invest in job creation in the regions?  That would be a good start - create jobs where there are workers, then make sure that the right amount of tax is collected and at the same time reduce spend on benefits which are only used to increase profits of selfish organisations.

Would it work?  Have your say.

PwC Report on the Current State of Project Management

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:44

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PwC Project Management ReportPwC found that successful companies are getting more mature in their project management ability.  This raises the game – successful companies have lower costs from fewer failed projects, and less successful companies have to work harder to catch up.  There are some important lessons to take this report for everyone – Read more…

Joy instead of tedium

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 21:04

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The Office

Every office has them - the tasks that have to be done that nobody likes doing.  Whether it's the audit, the wages, standard letters, whatever it is - someone has to do it and it feels like a waste of time and money.

Why should you care?

So you employ somebody, so why do you care about how tedious the task is? Well they are costing money, to do something that could be done far more effectively.

Learning from the Past

Submitted by HugoM on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 20:27

Evidence for service improvement

Many public service changes have little basis in evidence. Their success (or otherwise) does not appear to depend on how 'good' the policy itself is, but rather on how it has been implemented. This relies on staff attitudes and relationships. My research falls into a number of broad categories: finding out what is currently happening; what people think about it; and what people think it will mean.

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Consumer Price Index (CPI) Calculator for SROI

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 10:05

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CPI components

When calculating a Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation or SROI forecast , sometimes you have to rely on published figures from reports.  But if these are from a few years ago, then they probably need adjusting for inflation.

There are calculators on the web to do this for you, but I found them cumbersome and it was difficult to keep a record of what calculator I'd used, and how, for which value - auditability and transparency is vital for SROI.  So here's a spreadsheet to do this properly!