LifeNet International was a social conversion franchise concept aiming to supply basic, quality and sustainable health care to poor and underserved people in sub-Saharan Africa. President and the creator had predicated on the support of others to help bring about his idea of affordable health care. In the year 2012, the executive director for the operations in Burundi of LifeNet International, started focussing on developing the company in Burundi. She was excited to see the presence enlarging into Uganda of LifeNet International. Her vision for LifeNet International, nonetheless, was much larger. She imagined LifeNet International as a sustainable organization that could provide quality health care and medicine to millions of folks around the world.
If it planned to expand globally and bring more of the worldwide population health care, LifeNet International needed an option to tie its services together to further scale, duplicate and quantify its societal impact. How could LifeNet International bring its conversion that is societal franchising model to other African nations and globally? Would LifeNet International model be successful logistically, financially and culturally? What transformation would LifeNet need to make and what legal challenges should itconfront in the process of growth? Also, what structures would LifeNet need to put in place to handle the intricacy of its growing network of associate practices and operations? IlanAlon is affiliated with Rollins College.
PUBLICATION DATE: November 14, 2014 PRODUCT #: W14570-PDF-ENG
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