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Strategic Management Consulting Infopace Management Pvt Ltd provides Strategic Planning that begins with identifying the Vision of what your group wants the quality of life in your area or field to be like in the future, discovering the group's role in achieving that Vision, and Action Planning to solidify the roadmap to get there;
Strategic planning is more than putting words on a document, it is a process. It is important for groups to periodically undertake this process, and to implement the results, to ensure effectiveness and sustainability in the long term.
A well-designed and well-conducted Strategic Planning process facilitated by Strategic Management Consulting:
Enables partners, core decision makers, and staff to reach mutual conclusions about a broader Vision for the quality of life or field of interest in the next 10-20 years, and the role of the group to help accomplish that Vision, Enhances the understanding about the external landscape or "lay of the land" in order to make decisions based on the best information possible and in context of what other groups and circumstances exist in the area, Provides the opportunity for feedback from clients and partners collected and presented in an objective way about how the group is perceived, valued, and how it might strengthen its structure, decision making, programs, and operations, Surfaces the strategic questions about the group and its role, and lays the foundation for the steps to address those questions, Celebrates and builds on the group's accomplishments, and identifies areas for organizational strengthening, programmatic changes, expansion, or improvement, Facilitates the development of strategies and timelines, assigns responsibilities, so that the group maintains accountability, Provides access to useful connections, resources, new ideas and coaching along the way.
This process results in a document that is the roadmap by which the leadership, staff, partners and others involved in the group use to ensure they are all on the same page about the Vision, role and principles the group holds, the strategic direction the group will move toward (i.e. what the group itself will look like in a specific number of years), how the group and its stakeholders will get there, milestones to assess the outcomes and impact, responsible parties, and timelines. The document enables all parties involved to be held accountable to make it happen. The document also tells the entity's story for public information, marketing and relationship building.
Infopace Management Pvt Ltd facilitates the design of the process, facilitates the conversations to enable groups to address the tough issues and move forward to accomplish goals, does the homework and investigating to provide objective and accurate information about the context and views of stakeholders, and helps the group seek solutions to structural and strategic issues, in order to ensure results.
We follow a template that has proven to work, and are flexible in the approach to each group - knowing that each group is unique and has unique needs.
After the process is complete, that is not the end of Planning, nor the end of being strategic. The Plan, and all the ideas coming from the dialogues that are reflected in the Plan need to be implemented.
Organizational Strengthening and Development Infopace Management Pvt Ltd provides Organizational Strengthening and Development for traditional groups and those that don't fit the typical molds.
Organizational strengthening is a process by which groups fine tune - and in some cases transform - their internal organizational structures in order to ensure effectiveness and success.
These services are conducted with non-profits, public agencies, business as others as needed.
Discovering the need for organizational strengthening comes from either a strategic planning process; an internal assessment recognizing internal weaknesses that hinder effectiveness at the governance and decision making level, the management level, or staff level; the eminent need to restructure in order to move forward; new leadership; and several other related ways.
Infopace Management offers the following three services relative to organizational strengthening and development:
A. Fine-tuning the governance operations and structure
Strategic Management Consulting helps fine-tune the operations of the decision making body in groups by working through several strategies. These include, but are not limited to:
• Working with the governing body (for non-profits, this is the board, for other a steering committee, top management, etc) to understand their respective roles, responsibilities, and oversight functions, resulting in a "board member job description"
• Working with the governing body as a whole to solidify, re-create or rearrange their committee structures in order to ensure results. The committees, and specific duties, are placed in a thorough written description to ensure clarity
• Working with the group to refine their bylaws and /or other governing, policy, and legal documents such as conflict of interest policies, personnel manuals, and others.
These are then reflected as documents and included in a manual so that all of the members have the same information, and are held accountable for fulfilling their roles.
B. Recreating legal structures when necessary
Infopace Management assists groups in finding, creating, developing the best legal and operating structure so that the group can accomplish its mission and results more effectively. Strategic Management Consulting follows the notion that "Form Follows Function", i.e. first determines the function of the group, and then determines the right form.
That way, innovative structures can be explored and implemented, while still complying with legal and fiduciary boundaries. Examples of such collaborations include strategic alliances, coalitions, and others.
C. Internal organizational and management coaching
Working with staff is important to help the day-to-day operations of the organization, whether it is a public agency, non-profit, business or other group.
Infopace Management works with staff in four specific ways:
• Facilitating Process for and implementing structural transformation.
Facilitates a process with all levels of staff involved to identify issues and mutually develop solutions to help improve and restructure all aspects of internal operations. The process encourages staff empowerment, brokers resolution of conflicts, and ensures accountability.
In preparation for such work, Infopace Management collects information from staff and management on goals, strengths, weaknesses, and suggestions for improvement (via interview or email survey). This confidential information is presented as a summary at a facilitated session and used as a starting point for discussion, decisions, and transformation.
• Management Coaching and Mentoring. Infopace Management offers coaching for boards and staff at the executive and management levels in particular. Coaching includes working one-on-one with management and staff to improve specific skills, implement structural changes, answer management and supervisory questions, and provide general guidance. Organizational and individual assessments are completed to help guide and measure progress of the work.
Infopace Management has helped coach groups through improvement of staff and executive evaluations, improve staff morale, executive transitions and interim directorship, management changes, referrals to legal, policy and resource development opportunities, and more.
• Staff Retreats and conversations. Infopace Management facilitates staff retreats for several purposes including structural change, and team building.
• Fundraising planning. Infopace Management can help put together an effective fundraising plan that includes diversifying the funding base, new resources, and more. Infopace management will not write the letters or the grants, nor make the contacts, but will only point the group in the right direction.