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Strategy for institutionsthat serve us.

Deploying the economics of experience, capacity and brand to support what matters most.

Three frameworks

Building the evidence base for change.

Framework

Experience Economics

What an organization produces for the people it serves, what the gaps between intention and delivery cost, and where the highest-return actions sit.

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Framework

Capacity Economics

What an institution can do with what it has, what trade-offs it makes across populations and over time, and what evidence advocates need to make a structural case for doing things differently.

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Branded Economics

How an organization can predict the value of brand as an amplifier of its objectives, so investments in brand can be defended on the same terms as investments in capacity or operations.

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From the field

Observations from active work.

Healthcare

Capacity at the edges: notes from northern Canada

A care model that works has effects that ripple across the system. To make an effective model, we needed to account for these impacts.

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Foundation & Fundraising

The giving system was the story

A charitable foundation had strong donor relationships and a clear mission. It lacked a giving experience to match.

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For-profit medicine

The money was already in the practice

A private clinic came in asking about marketing spend. The economics pointed elsewhere.

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The Public Goods

Posts on capacity decisions in healthcare, experience strategy for institutional organizations, brand value where trust is the operating currency, and field notes from active work.

Scott Duncan

For twenty-five years, I have worked with Canadian institutions across healthcare, public services, transit and postal systems, utilities, and performing arts organizations. Strategist, tool-builder, photographer. Montreal-based. Bilingual.

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