Volunteer leaders face an increasingly complex and dynamic marketplace in which the products, services, networks and resources are all being challenged by increasing demands for value-added benefits and measurable outcomes that deliver on the investment and promise of membership. Strengthening your organizations strategic value-added capabilities is essential to your long-term success. Neoterica Partners can help you explore the continued viability of your strategic plan through structured strategic plan review and renewal. We help you re-examine assumptions, explore critical trends and apply new those new learnings to the future success of your organization.
Leadership Decision-Making
Understanding failure creates the essential framework for successful change and innovation. Our leading edge research explores organizational decision-making, how organizations deal with failure, crisis management, leadership behavior, and the avoidance of preventable problems. The rapid pace of change creates fresh challenges throughout organizations as efforts are made to integrate a fast moving array of new technologies, market opportunities, and people skills.
Technological advances are reshaping value propositions, influencing products and services and changing how organizations interact with their members and customers. As specialized information businesses, associations and professional societies are well positioned to successfully grasp change and potentially drive it for their members and stakeholders. The key to doing so is to recognize that speed and urgency are the currency of the day. An imperfect swift decision may still offer greater benefits than a slow agonizing one when it comes to leveraging change, capturing new markets and expanding the influence of your organization.
Creating Change Adept Organizations
Change has always been part of our landscape. To say it is almost cliché. What is less recognized and rarely acknowledged today however is the sheer velocity and complexity of change. Ad F. Scheepbouwer, CEO of KPN Telecom Netherlands points out that in telecommunications, “We have seen more change in the past ten years than in the previous 90.” One of the results of this rapid influx of change is the equally rapid development of a change gap—the disparity between how much change is expected and how much leaders believe they can successfully handle.
Research conducted by the IBM Corporation reports that between 2006 and 2008, the “change gap” jumped from 8% to 22% among CEO’s responding to the survey. The rapid pace of change creates fresh challenges throughout organizations as efforts are made to integrate a fast moving array of new technologies, market opportunities, and people skills. Technological advances are reshaping value propositions, influencing products and services and changing how organizations interact with their members and customers.
What skills will be demanded of executives responsible for leading change adept organizations and how do they differ from the training and education common among today's leaders? Neoterica Partners can help you discern the right choices from among your many options.