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What draws clients to Strategic Initiatives?

Strategic Initiatives provides consulting services that solve problems, navigate organizational change, foster innovation, and develop the capacities of individuals, teams, and organizations.

Variations on the same themes repeat themselves time and again. Some clients are losing marketplace position and are unable to halt their decline.  They may understand the symptoms of decline but have no idea how to turn it around.  They may have lost connection with their customers, members, and/or learners, and do not understand how to become indispensable to them. Others are faced with intractable organizational issues or fragmented, inadequate technologies.  Some lack leadership, innovation, and creativity.  Others have launched many small-scale innovations but lack the capacity to focus on enterprise-wide innovation to create competitive advantage.  Others have experienced unsatisfying cycles of strategic planning that failed to change the enterprise, blocking its capacity to innovate, grow, and prosper.  Many have invested in technology but have failed to leverage those technologies to change the way they do business.

These days, many clients are seeking to measure and improve performance and put some action into their analytics. They realize they need to change their organizational culture and behavior to do so.

Finally, some clients are seeking competitive advantage with particular leading-edge solutions. These could include developing e-knowledge repositories/portals, advice about developing knowledge domains and registries, and exploiting the opportunities of e-knowledge commerce.

Strategic Initiatives and its partners can help our clients to solve all of these problems.

Click on the following problems to see case study examples of our work.

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PROBLEMS FACED # CASE STUDY
Responding to global competition # Strategic Positioning for Transnational Universities
Fresh vision and leadership # Higher Colleges of Technology (United Arab Emirates)
Need to measure and improve performance # Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Losing competitive position, declining revenues # Educational Research Service
Obsolescent facilities and approaches to facilities planning # Creating Facilities for 21st Century Learning
Antiquated and poorly integrated technologies # Pace University
Misalignment of people, resources, and programs with customer needs # Tree Care Industry of America
Anxiety over change, inability to change rapidly # Wilkes University
Isolated innovation, inability to leverage innovation enterprise-wide # Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Need to overcome ineffective strategic planning # Tree Care Industry of America
Rapidly rising costs, facing an apparently unsolvable, intractable problems # Eastern Michigan University
Need for communities of practice and peer-to-peer solutions # American Health Information Management Association
Need for new technologies and practices # #
•  e-knowledge portals and repositories; knowledge domain indexing # Development of e-Knowledge Repositories
•  fusion of learning, knowledge, and performance;
advanced e-learning solutions
# Thought Leadership in
e-Learning

 


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