They can give you a strategic advantage
Caroline McKinnon //September 10, 2015//
They can give you a strategic advantage
Caroline McKinnon //September 10, 2015//
If you are in charge of strategic planning, change initiatives, restructuring or redesign efforts in your organization, it can give you an advantage to bring in someone from the outside to assist in your efforts. Many executives responsible for these processes assume that only someone from inside their organization can truly understand how to think about and plan change, but insiders may continue to re-engineer the same solutions over and over, not producing the needed results. Here are some of the reasons why an outsider brings value:
It is not hard to find examples of failed change initiatives. Perhaps there have been some in your own organization. Ask yourself if the insights above were really being leveraged in the ways that could have brought you the results you were looking for.