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.

Most executives are well aware of these problems—and that the right people and the right information are the competitive advantage.  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.

For most companies, the tools don't exist to do more than exhort.  The Allison Group's Dynamic Enterprise Program offers those tools.  They can be used separately or in combinations according to the needs of each enterprise.

• Real-time Feedback    Do you know what your employees know about your customers―or is that information inaccessible to decision makers? Do you know what you need to do to retain your intellectual capital and recruit the best?  Does senior management really know what's happening in your business at the coalface―and places in between?  Are you sure that corporate strategy is actually a part of middle management decision making?

The Real-time Feedback program gives you the answers to those questions and provides you with the systems and processes to act on the information.

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• Dynamic Decision Modeling  
• Executive workshops    The Executive Workshop brings managers to a greater understanding of how to meet the challenges inherent in navigating a business through the shoals of constant change, market volatility, and information overload.  It then allows senior managers to test the assumptions underlying corporate values and strategies and, through innovative software applications, to see how those assumptions will affect the success of those strategies.  These three to five day workshops go beyond standard Mission, Vision, and Values Programs while incorporating their results. The result is an improved understanding of the risks and rewards involved  an enhanced commitment to corporate goals and a means of tracking implementation success.
• Targeted Workshops     From new product introduction to strategy formulation at any level from department to division to enterprise, the Targeted Strategic Decision Workshop will reveal options, promote consensus, reduce risk, and clarify decision making. Using the same innovative software tools as the Executive Workshops, the Targeted Workshops provide mangers at any level in an enterprise the means to fully understand the assumptions and implications of decisions as well as the complex web of interdependencies involved.

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The Allison Group has developed new tools and management techniques that foster the cultural change and focus on human capital utilization that create quick adaptive corporate behavior.  The key tools are:.

• Performance Management     Performance Management to most managers means People Management.  But People Management is only a part of the solution. To really create a performance culture in an enterprise also requires addressing the gap that too often exists between corporate strategy and the day-to-day processes of the business.

Our Performance Management workshops and implementation programs offer both a framework and a practical methodology for integrating the corporate value propositions into the the work managers and staff do.  It also provides feedback mechanisms that both highlight changes and adjustments needed in the processes and misalignments in the value propositions. 

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• Enterprise Dashboard The Enterprise Dashboard incorporates current status, history, and key feedback loops and provides a mechanism by which the enterprise can monitor itself.  The Dashboard is available to everyone and is one method of insuring that communications take place uniformly and frequently throughout the enterprise.  It provides a focused context with which to interpret local events and make appropriate decisions for local action that furthers enterprise goals

• Ownership Training Ownership Training provides the skills, techniques, and models that enable every employee to interpret and take action based on information from the Continuous Feedback and the Enterprise Dashboard.  Our Accelerated Use methodology insures that all employees know how this program can make their work lives better and that Dynamic Enterprise tools are widely and consistently used.

Using continuous feedback, the Dynamic Enterprise program generates ideas and initiatives addressing both strategic and tactical issues; productivity programs, policy changes, coaching and training needs, and new business ideas.  Everyone in the organization is involved in the process, contributing through the feedback process, participating in evaluating results and developing action plans.  This participative process generates a level of commitment and alignment, which is not possible in the traditional hierarchical organization.  The ability to understand what is happening on an ongoing basis and adapt to meet changing conditions defines today's adaptive enterprise driven by an adaptive workforce and enhances networking, conflict resolution and knowledge sharing.

Different from most organizational change programs, the Dynamic Enterprise Program is truly sustainable.  Here's why…the program changes your structure and processes (your architecture) to be able to quickly see and respond to changes both in the global economy as well as local opportunities. The unique power of this program is that it provides you with the architecture to respond effectively to whatever happens in the future.  No one can predict the future but you can be responsible and effective by preparing your organization to handle changes as they come up.

To ensure substantive, sustainable permanent change, the program is supported by thorough staff and management training.  Ongoing measurement of progress and evaluation of results allow program adjustments to reach results.

The Allison Group services include its Dynamic Enterprise Programs and its workshops.  Dynamic Enterprise Programs are designed to create change within an enterprise, increasing flexibility, decreasing response time, and improving the flow and use of information. Workshops are directed at senior management in an enterprise and are designed to both acquaint senior executives with new concepts in management and to leave them with concrete ideas applicable to their current situation.

• Dynamic Enterprise Programs
• Real-time Feedback
• Enterprise Dashboard
• Ownership Training
• Dynamic Decision Modeling
• Performance Management
• Discovery System
• Workshops
• Case Studies
• Speaking

The recent downturn in the economy has shaken many businesses—not just startups, but established businesses as well.  Yet, historically, recessions have given birth to some of the most powerful companies.  This seminar brings to senior executives the tools to avoid becoming a victim of economic hardship--and to take advantage of the opportunities uncertain times can offer. Maintaining Momentum in Unsettled Times is a one-day, hands-on seminar, custom tailored to your organization.

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The following mini-case studies are available which illustrate features of Real-time Feedback:

• Global Consulting Team Effectiveness: Maintain morale, alignment, team effectiveness, and client satisfaction over long periods of time and across long distances. Insure that opportunities for additional business are not missed.
• Maintaining Momentum During Rapid Change : Maintain momentum during layoffs, M&A activity, and terrorist incidents. 
• Rapid, Cost-effective Growth: Grow rapidly (lots of hiring and training), while maintaining employee and customer satisfaction.  Simultaneously, improve training so that time-to-profit for new employees is significantly reduced.

Learn how to Walk the Talk of New Business Models through this engaging program.  You will learn the tools and processes needed to enable you to create a top-level template for a new, dynamic business model.

In addition to the workings of a new business model, you will also get the lubricant that's necessary to ensure the machinery works smoothly.  There's a shift in thinking – perhaps even a change in business culture – that is needed to effectively embrace and take full advantage of any change in the business model.  You will get a sense of what that means for your organization.  The one-day, hands-on program will show you how to become a Dynamic Enterprise.

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"When two people meet, there are really six people present.  There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is."        William James

Personalities, differences in styles, incomplete communication—all these are common everyday experiences in both the personal and work environments. The result is a loss of personal and business effectiveness. Symptoms include:

• Office politics
• Problems Communicating
• People who can sell to one type of person but not another
• Dysfunctional teams
• Ineffective Coaching
• Personality Conflicts
• Cross-silo problems

It doesn't have to be that way.  For individuals, teams, and whole organizations, the Discovery System can change the way your company works and interacts.

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