What You Get When You Buy This Solution

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  • A strategy and plan you understand and can execute
  • Free consultation before you buy
  • A plan that is designed to let you deliver planned results; and increased levels of impact
  • A plan and strategy that are adjusted to give you the handle on both strategy and business risk
  • A plan designed to drive quality and continuous improvement in your operations
  • A plan that shows contribution to national, local, funder and or global goals, change or impact
  • A plan that supports ease in reporting and put you on a path to attaining quality designation
  • Measures for helping you to get things like effective governance; accountability; transparency; compliance; advocacy; and increased stakeholder value right
  • Tested assumptions, scenario planning and simulations for helping you to gain the handle on risk and uncertainty.
  • A plan that inspires commitment and wins― staff, funder, community, member, customer, and other stakeholder confidence.
  • Your guide to increasing earnings, winning more funding, and improving financial viability and sustainability
  • A plan that is aligned, and guards against mandate, purpose, or mission drift.

Your plan and planning experience are guaranteed to foster learning; and helps with continuous improvement. In other words, your Program Plan is “Plan, Do, Check, and Improve” ready!

Goals, objectives, strategies, output, outcomes, KPIs, KRIs, indicator targets, and reporting timelines are clearly articulated.    

In addition to key performance indicators, included are key risk indicators, together they will help you and your program to fail forward to greater success!

How We Work

3 Yr. Program Plans – Now on sale!

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3 Yr. Program Plans 
Nonprofit Organizations & International Development Project Solution

Available now, results-based plans and planning solutions that are designed to guide you to deliver― planned results; impact; and financial viability. Time and resource constraints make it difficult for many nonprofit organizations, charities, quasi-government, and international development projects to craft a plan and strategy that is enhanced by rigorous adjustment for strategy and business risks.

We guarantee you will receive a plan and supporting performance management tools that suits your needs; and one that does not add undue burden on your existing resources.

What You Get When You Buy This Solution

Request Your Proposal for Outcomes Evaluation or Organizational Assessment Solution.

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  1. Executive summary (1 Page)
  2. Project scope, approach and methodology (2 Pages)
  3. Project management approach, Work Plan and Timeline (2 Pages)
  4. Practise and Consultant(s) Experience and Qualifications (1 Page)
  5. Detailed financial proposal with itemized pricing (1 Page)
  6. References (1 Page)
  7. Practise/Firm Overview

Basic Deliverables Proposed: Evaluation Report; Management Response Session; Evaluation Summit and Presentation of Findings & Interpretation of Findings to Stakeholders; PowerPoint Summary of Findings, Lessons Learnt, and RecommendationsWinterevaluationRFP2ad

Available add-ons:

  • Enterprise wide, project, or program planning solution
  • Performance management and measurement workshop
  • Performance measurement tools
  • Routine support with performance assessment surveys and reports
  • Ongoing project management support
  • Operations, Business or Strategy Plan update
  • Situation specific help with communicating your success

Typical issues addressed (We thank you for indicating your specific issues):

  1. Relevance: Continued need for your project, program, product, or service solution
  2. Relevance: Alignment with mission, mandate, strategic plan, and other priorities
  3. Results: The extent to which you have attained planned results within budget, level of unintended negative results
  4. Impacts and effects: benefits and broader outcomes to clients, members, customers, society
  5. Effectiveness and efficiency: Uptake of program solution or service offer and the extent to which it meets the needs of targeted beneficiaries, customers, or users
  6. Coherence if applicable
  7. Reach and success in brokering collaboration and or capacity building as applicable
  8. Cost effectiveness: Alternatives if available for delivering solution and meeting objectives for less; resource utilization
  9. Organizational sustainability: Relevance + financial viability (For organizational Assessments)

SMEs Strategy Evaluation Issues: consistency, consonance, advantage, feasibility

Typical domains of evaluation or assessment: Structure, process, HR & Systems Capacity, Outcome, Access, Safety, Cost, User/customer experience

Select standards: Utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy

Required:

  • A statement or bullet points of factors driving the need for the evaluation or assessment
  • Expectations for the Evaluation exercise
  • Background on project, program, service, or organization
  • Available period for Evaluation or Assessment and deadline for solution
  • Overview of your organization and legal structure (Nonprofit, For-profit, Department of government, other)
  • Contact for project sponsor and or purchase decision maker
  • Mandatory or desired evaluation framework (Ex. Sustainable Livelihoods)
  • Your special wish for a smooth and fun evaluation and learning exercise
  • Budget

Don’t let 2016 catch you in the dark about your results; the direction in which you should go; and tuned out funders and targeted beneficiaries or customers!

Save 20% on all solutions. Request an adjustment to suit your unique needs

Request a free consultation prior to submitting your Request for Proposal (RFP).

Contact us by Email: click here

Phone: 1(647) 854-5323

Also available: Business and Corporate Strategy Plans | Impact Evaluations

 

Request our Organizational and Professional Needs Assessment Survey to find out if you qualify for a pro bono solution (Conditions apply).

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Looking forward to serving you!

Magate Wildhorse℠

“Helping organizations transcend expected levels of success, despite the constraint of size.”

Get Yours Today – Proposal for Corporate Strategy Planning Solution

Request Your Proposal for Corporate Strategy Planning and Plan Development Solution.

Solution includes: Free Performance Measurement and Reporting Tool

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  1. Executive summary (1 Page)
  2. Project scope, approach and methodology (2 Pages)
  3. Project management approach, Work Plan and Timeline (2 Pages)
  4. Practise and Consultant(s) Experience and Qualifications (1 Page)
  5. Detailed financial proposal with itemized pricing (1 Page)
  6. References (1 Page)
  7. Practise/Firm Overview

Basic Deliverables Proposed: 3-5 Year Corporate Strategy Plan; Planning Workshops & Board Retreat; Stakeholder and Market Research; Review or Organizational Results; Performance Management System; Performance Measurement and Reporting Tools; Strategic Plan Presentation to StakeholdersWinterstrategyplanRFPad

Available add-ons:

  • 1 Year Strategic Operational Plan
  • Organizational Assessment & Development Report
  • Change Management Workshop
  • Routine support with performance measurement and reporting

Integrated in solution: Systems thinking, outcomes, and results-based approaches; SMART and SMARTER Indicators

Required:

  • A statement or bullet points of factors driving the need for the strategic planning exercise
  • Expectations for the strategic planning exercise and Plan
  • Available period for Planning and deadline for solution
  • Overview of your organization and legal structure (Nonprofit, For-profit, Department of government, other)
  • Contact for project sponsor and or purchase decision maker
  • Your special wish for a smooth and fun planning exercise

Save 20% on all solutions. Request an adjustment to suit your unique needs

Don’t let 2016 catch you scrabbling for a new Corporate Strategy or Program Work Plan.

Request a free consultation prior to submitting your Request for Proposal (RFP).

Contact us by Email: click here

Phone: 1(647) 854-5323

Also available: Business Plans

We Will Take Care of Your Remote Project and Program Management Needs

 

Remote Project Management and Performance Measurement Solutions

Available: comprehensive ongoing and short term specific solutions.

Great organizational leaders do not sit and wait to see what the recruitment process shores up when they need a great team member, advisor, or execution partner. They actually research, scout, and woo prospective team members and execution partners with the skills and expertise that they require.

We know that you are busy and the search can be long and hard so we are parading ourselves right here before your eyes. Believe it or not today is your lucky day! In fact it is our lucky day!

Use our top class remote project or program management solutions when:

  • You need to save on staff cost or space
  • You need project management expertise and rigour of PMP, Lean, and Six Sigma caliber but suited to the results oriented approaches used by government, international development projects, non-profits, or private sector development entities
  • You need help with project initiation; scoping; budgeting; timelines; performance measures (KPIs etc.); articulating project objectives; identifying constraints, risks, and assumptions; root cause analysis and corrective actions.
  • You need help with communication, marketing and operationalizing your project
  • You need to strengthen your performance measurement (monitoring and evaluation culture and capacity)
  • You need to improve your results, impact, and credibility
  • You need help with answering and designing-in a system that can help you to answer one or more of the following tough questions:
  1. Is our program or project relevant
  2. Should we continue to offer this project or program as we currently do?
  3. Have we delivered our project or program as planned?
  4. How effective are we in delivering our solutions?
  5. Are we using the most cost effective approach for delivering the desired outcome
  6. Are we creating impact? Are we financially viable?
  • You need to secure the buy-in of stakeholders and funders
  • You need expertise with project  planning, management, execution, monitoring, evaluation, assessment, and reporting

We offer remote project and program management plus performance measurement solutions in two formats.

  1. Remote or Virtual Project Management – the total solution is delivered online via web technology, including web meetings, virtual project war room, or meetings and online workspace.
  2. Blended Project and Program Management Solution – delivered by a mix of virtual service delivery plus on-site meetings, training, research, or work days.

We are your one stop organizational effectiveness and performance measurement partner!

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I’ve got a Great Business Plan but I Just Can’t Get the Business Going!

Join me for an on parade, auction house, let’s make do with what we have, preacher styled session on how to get that business going.  The session is just over 14 minutes and may be listened to at one go or in two parts without losing the meaning. You will need to have your businesses plan and colour pens (red ink, green ink, blue or black).Magateminibusplan

If you have a business performance report or other tool for tracking your progress in implementing your strategy please grab that too. Part 1 is 8 min and part 2 is 6 min in duration.

Find out what I learnt while at a gathering of start-up entrepreneurs in Toronto.

Warning: This audio session is intended for solopreneurs and other leaders of small, medium, and micro-enterprises who have an urgent need to take steps for improving the results of their businesses. This session is not for you if, you have been tricked into believing that as an entrepreneur and organizational leader you do not need the details.

Now   “F   a   l   l           N”

F   O    R    W   A    R    D

M   A   R   C   H!

Let’s get going for getting the sales going.

Listen now: Please click the image below to listen.

Meegan Scott at Magate Wildhorse

Virtual Project and Program Rescue & Support Service

Many development project fail to deliver the desired levels or impact because of the need for that trusted friend and advisor who could provide objective implementation support; an extra pair of hands; additional tools; processes and mindset, and who is committed to working in collaboration and partnership with the implementation team.

To implementing partners and organizational leaders

  • Why wait for a funder review, evaluation or the dreaded message that the funding will be suspended to get help?
  • Why allow the brand of your project to be damaged or for your team to end the project with no meaningful outputs or outcomes for which they can feel proud as a team and as an individual?
  • Why risk your professional reputation?
  • Why not design in the success of your project or program including your support life-line from the start?

To donors and funders

  • If you are a donor or funder, why not hedge the return on investment by providing technical support for ensuring effective and efficient delivery of relevant solutions?

Please accept this invitation to meet for discussing how we can rescue your project or program.  Perhaps you do not represent an implementing agency but a Department of Government that is committed to improving its results by making the transition to evidence based and results-oriented thinking and actions as your new culture. In that case, we would love to help you too.

We offer solutions that will give you access to top-tiered consulting expertise at the price you can afford.

Go virtual and get more for the money! Our tools are fully interactive and experiential, you will forget that we are working virtually.

Got the bucks to invest? No problem, we will travel to your location in the Caribbean, USA or Canada!

Let’s make it a date, tell us what is the best time for you. We are available 7:30 AM to 8:00 PM – on Wednesdays, Fridays or Saturdays, May 16- 23, 2015.  Book early for a free 30 minute consultationSchedule your date: Call: 1(647) 854-5323 or Click here to send us an Email.

Not available to meet before May 23rd or prefer after work hours? Send us a note and we’ll work on a best time for us both.

 “Helping organizations transcend expected levels of success, despite the constraint of size.”
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We’ve got green thumbs for growing businesses and developing winning programs, let’s connect!

Put your organization or project in our nurturing hands and watch it grow.

Many people will tell you that they met the love of their life by chance.  Why not take a chance on finding your forever organizational strengthening and success partner?

We might be interested to start a relationship with your organization if you need help with any of the following:

  • Program planning and redesign
  • Program monitoring and evaluation
  • Help with getting funders to sign the cheque
  • Meeting funder and stakeholder reporting requirements
  • Training in strategic planning, change marketing, customer service, work plan development, results-based management and more
  • Help with change management or project management
  • An organizational assessment
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Cause or behaviour change marketing
  • Strengthening and improving you brand recognition
  • Growing your clientele and better servicing your market or catchment area
  • Rescue operation for a failing project or program.

We’d like to invite you on a date to discuss your challenges and how we can help you to improve your results and win the support of funders and your local community!

Let’s make it a date, tell us what is the best time for you. We are available 7:30 AM to 8:00 PM – on Wednesdays, Fridays or Saturdays, May 16- 23, 2015.  Book early for a free 30 minute consultationSchedule your date: Call: 1(647) 854-5323 or Click here to send us an Email.

Whether you are a community based organization, professional association, social enterprise, faith-based organization or a non-profit organization involved in international development we can help you.

This could be a great beginning, what have you got to lose? Contact us today!

About this Forum

Welcome to Magate Wildhorse Strategy and Evaluation Answers Forum!

Here you can join members from around the world for discussing issues related to strategy, execution, monitoring and evaluation.  Share your thoughts, ideas, and experiences from the field; and have your questions answered.  Find innovative solutions and increase impact by learning from others how to, apply change marketing and knowledge management for improving strategy execution.

Join us for discussions on all things related to strategy and execution, key sub-themes include:

  • Program, project and organizational success
  • Poverty reduction and economic growth
  • Entrepreneur and enterprise development
  • Water, sanitation, health and environment
  • Sustainable development
  • Making markets work for the poor
  • Project and program management
  • Strategy and Strategic Change Management
  • Monitoring, Evaluation and Assessments
  • Business Incubation
  • Change marketing

Submit questions about:

  • Strategy development, planning and implementation
  • Work plan development and implementation
  • Program and organizational performance measurement and management
  • Designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems
  • Conducting monitoring, evaluation or organizational assessment
  • Cause or change marketing
  • Growing your business
  • Improving the outcomes or impact of your program, project, organization or department of government
  • An economic growth initiatives for which you need strategy, evaluation or market development support

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Handy Books for Development M&E Professionals

Global Evaluation Reports Oversight System (GEROS) GEROS_Methodology_v7

EuropeAid ROM Handbook 2012
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The DCED Standard for Measuring Results in Private Sector Development (2013)
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Guidelines to the DCED Standard for Results Measurement: Articulating the Results Chain (2013)
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Current Thinking on the DCED Standard (2014)
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Impact Evaluation Series – UNICEF
Impact Evaluation Books and Videos