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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.

In today’s environment, many of our prospective clients have lost market share and financial sustainability in the Great Recession, and need to reimagine themselves to emerge successful.

Still 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

Fresh vision and leadership

 

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George Mason University
(Creating Distributed Universities for Hypergrowth Regions);
Eastern Michigan University
(Optimizing Value From Investments in Technology);
Higher Colleges of Technology
(Strategic Positioning for Transnational Universities)

Need to overcome resistance to change

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Wilkes University
(Leading and Navigating Change)

Next generation technologies

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University of Dammam
(Thought Leadership in e-Learning)

Next generation analytics

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Creating and Leveraging Action Analytics
(all entries)

Enhancing productivity, improving financial sustainability

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Creating and Leveraging Action Analytics
(all entries)
Optimiziung Value from Investments in Technology
(all entries)

Responding to global competition

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Strategic Positioning for Transnational Universities
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Overcoming deficiencies in employability skills   PASSIU ™ (Employability and Talent Management)
(all entries)
Creating seamless perpetual professional development   Advanced Management Institute
(Enabling Continuous Professional Development)
Need to measure and improve performance   Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
(Measuring and Improving Performance)
Losing competitive position, declining revenues   Educational Research Service
Obsolescent facilities and approaches to facilities planning   Creating Facilities for 21st Century Learning and Research
Antiquated and poorly integrated technologies   Pace University
(Optimizing Value from Investmnets in Technology)
Leveraging technology to reinvent processes and practices   Eastern Michigan University, Pace University,
University of Dammam

(Optimizing Value from Investmnets in Technology)
Isolated innovation, inability to leverage innovation enterprise-wide   Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
(Thought Leadership in e-Learning)
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