Services
Management briefings and custom seminars:
Dr. Allison presents tailored management and R & D briefings on the shape of social evolution, modeling groups, and the specifics of the current systemic change in society and community.
The Allison Group also provides custom seminars to support strategic planning and organizational fitness.
For information about tailored consulting, please contact us.
Target group mapping:
Often when researching a target group, you learn what an expert thinks you need to know or, sometimes, whatever the expert knows. The Allison Group helps organizations ask a robust set of questions when assessing a society, organization, or target market that you want to work with.
Examples include:
- businesses map the changes in target markets and future opportunities
- educators and administrators map the changes in student characteristics and needs, as well as the changes in their family support
- NGO's map changes in the community needs and in effective means of addressing these need
- religious organizations map the differences in traditional and emerging congregations
- defense organizations map the social structure of other societies
Supporting groups of purpose (also known as communities of practice, communities of interest, networks, federations, etc):
In today's world, many complex problems have outpaced the ability of bureaucratic organizations to manage them.
Instead, groups of purpose, in which people are linked not—as they have been in the past—by geography or being a member of a bureaucratically-structured organization but solely by the purpose of the group, are emerging. These new groups have powerful capabilities but also face special challenges.
Although many organizations know that they need to support groups of purpose—because they work in a completely different social structure—they often inadvertently make mistakes or apply success measures that are not
appropriate.
As you learn identify different group types and capabilities, you become equipped to make choices about the most effective approach for tackling certain kinds of problems.
Armed with an understanding of the differences and, therefore, where the likely points of conflict between bureaucracy and groups of purpose will be, you develop ways to support groups of purpose.
Individual community maps:
People are not born into village communities as they once were. Now children and adults need to learn how to built their own individual communities. Key to this process is understanding one's current community. For individuals, families, teachers, communities, and others, we create individual community maps.
With the permission of the person being mapped (and his or her parents if the person is a minor), information from individual maps will be abstracted and used as part of Dr. Allison's on-going research.
Discovery Programs