A Sinzer Case: Outcome evaluation of Women Inc, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

A Sinzer Case: Outcome evaluation of Women Inc, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

The impact analysis Sinzer conducted consisted of an evaluation that looked back on five years of activities by all 50...
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A Sinzer Case: Europeana Foundation: The Social Impact of (digital) Cultural Heritage

A Sinzer Case: Europeana Foundation: The Social Impact of (digital) Cultural Heritage

Europeana Foundation is the institute for digital cultural heritage in Europe. Sinzer initially helped Europeana with a small-scale impact assessment...
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Purposing the Mining LPRM to Develop Supporting Industries in Pursuing NCA

Purposing the Mining LPRM to Develop Supporting Industries in Pursuing NCA

Porter identifies “related and supporting industries” as a factor to investment-driven NCA; Behre Dolbear groups “connectedness of local supply networks...
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National Competitive Advantage through the LPRM – A Human Resources Lens

National Competitive Advantage through the LPRM – A Human Resources Lens

Porter stipulates that human resources i.e. the local labour force and supply of skilled labor, are key components to developing...
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The Importance of Mine-site-level-data to National Competitive Advantage

The Importance of Mine-site-level-data to National Competitive Advantage

A comparison of Porter’s factors toward NCA; the LPRM’s recommended applications of its mine-site-level-generated data and Behre Dolbear’s identified most...
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Porter’s Diamond in Ethical Mining and Local Procurement

Porter’s Diamond in Ethical Mining and Local Procurement

Applying Porter’s notion of NCA to understand how local industries which support national mining industries have, in some cases, evolved...
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Mining Local Procurement for National Competitive Advantage

Mining Local Procurement for National Competitive Advantage

Mining Shared Value (MSV) is an initiative of Engineers Without Borders Canada (a Canadian non-profit organization), focused on “helping the...
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A Lack of Internal Digital Capabilities in Ontario’s Third Sector

A Lack of Internal Digital Capabilities in Ontario’s Third Sector

According to a study by the Ontario Not-for-Profit Network, “most technical requirements of non-for-profit organizations in Ontario are outsourced.” The...
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The Sector’s Digital Skills Gap

The Sector’s Digital Skills Gap

The abundance of third-sector authored literature, conveys that anecdotally and empirically, there is a digital skills gap in the Third...
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Third Sector Can’t Afford to Buy and Firm’s Can’t Afford to Provide

Third Sector Can’t Afford to Buy and Firm’s Can’t Afford to Provide

Data from Statistics Canada’s 2006 “Report on the Volunteer & Charitable Sector,” shows that of the organizations which fall within...
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Government Buying “Technical” & Consulting Firms Selling “Technical”?

Government Buying “Technical” & Consulting Firms Selling “Technical”?

The chart below illustrates that the vast majority of dollars spent on management consulting services are spent on “information technology”...
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Sinzer & The Sector Inc Specialize in Impact Making, Impact Measurement and Impact Management.

Sinzer & The Sector Inc Specialize in Impact Making, Impact Measurement and Impact Management.

We believe that organizations can achieve more positive change through continuous learning from impact data. That is why we work...
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Third Sector Digital Transformation: The Third Sector Can’t Afford the Big Four…

Third Sector Digital Transformation: The Third Sector Can’t Afford the Big Four…

Management consulting firms are in businesses to make a profit. For firms to provide digital capacity-building services to the Third...
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The Sector Inc. partners with Sinzer

The Sector Inc. partners with Sinzer

The Sector is growing its capacities as a social innovation and resource development consultancy, specializing in aligning priorities of cross-sector...
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Third Sector Traditional Issues will Become Obsolete through Technological Change

Third Sector Traditional Issues will Become Obsolete through Technological Change

The Sector Inc, makes two important assumptions to it's approach: 1. The Speed of Digital Of the many aforementioned issues...
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Sinzer’s Beginners Guide To Social Return On Investment

Sinzer’s Beginners Guide To Social Return On Investment

Learning more about Social Return on Investment will give you a better understanding of how to measure your impact and...
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The Undefined Role of the Ontario Public Service in Third Sector, Digital Transformation

The Undefined Role of the Ontario Public Service in Third Sector, Digital Transformation

The Ontario Public Service, of the Government of Ontario, includes ministries, agencies, and Crown corporations. Its workforce consists of over...
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The MBA spawns a start-up spanning three continents

The MBA spawns a start-up spanning three continents

MBA students set up consultancy to streamline public servicesAiming to save taxpayers thousands of poundsThe Sector involves students from five...
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Strategic Spending on the Digital Transformation of Social Service Delivery in Ontario

Strategic Spending on the Digital Transformation of Social Service Delivery in Ontario

The Sector Inc's extensive research study on the role of global consulting firms in government digital transformation in Ontario: Table...
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Shifting Government Spend on Consulting from Policy to Third Sector Digital Transformation

Shifting Government Spend on Consulting from Policy to Third Sector Digital Transformation

Structured as a case study, of The Government of Ontario, this research study examines the evidence both supporting and refuting...
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