Founded as Allison Consultants, a partnership, in 1980, the Allison Group initially provided management and supervisory training, primarily in the not-for-profit sector.  By the late '80s, the renamed Allison Group had expanded into organizational development activities and was working with major corporations.

In the middle '90s, the firm became interested in new concepts emerging from the physical and social sciences that promised to shed light on why so many good management concepts of the 80's and '90's had failed.  This led to a book, The Complexity Advantage, published in 1998, and new approaches to the problems facing enterprises in the midst of unstable markets, constant change, and overwhelming information.

Today the Allison Group's focus is on Competitive Fitness^SM, applying new, tested principles to Organizational development, Performance Management, Strategic Decision Modeling, and to fostering rapid employer behavior change through a focus on human capital utilization that creates sustainable dynamic businesses. The Allison Group's clients are organizations who understand that the business management and decision processes that worked for most of the past eighty years no longer serve.

Research indicates that corporate performance is directly related to workforce quality, which in turn results from using employee-friendly human resource management practices and the ability to attract and retain talented employees. But it is not enough to attract good people.  To realize their full value you must continually develop them and provide them with opportunities to contribute. Satisfied employees make better employees.  They are more productive, more committed and more innovative. Satisfied employees feel appreciated and that they are making a contribution to the success of the enterprise. Listening to employees and providing them with feedback contributes to their sense of value and belonging. Feedback and coaching are valuable development tools, which are significantly underutilized in most corporations. 

In today's business climate, change is both continuous and increasing exponentially.  Competition is increasingly aggressive and comes from unexpected sources.  Customer needs and perceptions of value are unpredictable.  The world is undergoing a fundamental change—including the characteristics and speed of the global marketplace in which all businesses now compete.  Compounding these challenges, the information overload is interfering with everyone's ability to identify and address issues quickly and appropriately.  Businesses must develop structure and process to meet challenges that they may not be able to predict.

People are the competitive advantage, but are very difficult to attract and keep in today's tight labor market… information is unlimited, but knowledge, ideas, lessons learned and wisdom are being irretrievably lost every day.  The scarcity of executive and professional talent—and demographic studies predict an even greater shortage in years to come—is occurring at a time when companies expect and need more from their employees.  Complex global markets require more sophisticated management skills, including international sensibility, cultural fluency, technological literacy, entrepreneurial flair, and most critically, leadership. Businesses must either adapt or die.

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The Allison Group, LLC, is a New York-based international consulting firm that develops, provides, and licenses practical tools to develop and sustain high performing teams and flexible planning. We specialize in improving organizational architecture, behavior, and overall effectiveness.  Using proven principles from new advances in systems theory, The Allison Group provides results-oriented solutions to organizational performance challenges and problems. 

The Allison Group's core service is their proprietary Dynamic Enterprise Program^SM.  This program is designed to achieve lasting improvements in business performance. By providing a new scientific and economic model for understanding today's performance challenges, the Dynamic Enterprise Programs enable organizations to maximize flexibility, adaptability and human capital. The program creates a new enterprise architecture and promotes behavior change that enables businesses to more effectively communicate, learn and take action at the fast speeds today's business environment demands.

We provide practical tools that:

• sustain high performance organizational cultures ("100 Best Companies to Work for") and
• support sophisticated business planning that is fast and easy to adapt to changing conditions.

Most managers understand the key factors in employee satisfaction and engagement such as using employee feedback effectively and insuring opportunities to make a real contribution.  What they need are better tools and enabling infrastructures to help them provide these conditions.  Our Real-time Feedback^SM Program does just that.

Our Dynamic Decision Modeling^SM program makes it easier to adapt business plans quickly and effectively as the situation changes.  For example, if a competitor unexpectedly brings out a new product line, because our clients have already captured the relationships between current performance, success factors, and the interests of key stakeholders in software supported by an intelligent engine, they simply add this new information to their plan and our program helps them work through a variety of new strategies based on their own thinking and the new situation.

The Allison Group's products and services are designed to achieve lasting improvements in business performance.  By providing a new scientific and economic model for understanding today's performance challenges, the Competitive Fitness Program enables organizations to maximize flexibility, adaptability, and human capital. The program creates a new enterprise architecture and promotes behavior change that enables businesses to more effectively communicate, learn and take action at the fast speeds today's business environment demands.

Our products all involve a combination of rigorous process, software, and coaching.  In addition to Real-time Feedback and Dynamic Decision Modeling, we offer tools designed to facilitate communications and interaction among employees, departments, and divisions as well as living dashboards, including ones correlated with Gallup or Balanced Scorecard.