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Much of the value of trade and professional organizations is found in the networking and educational opportunities they deliver. When for-profit companies offer services that replace these traditional values, non-profits must look for other ways to stay relevant. Why...
The successful CEO must understand how best to translate a strategic vision into a clear execution plan. At Mod Op Strategic Consulting we have worked with a number of our clients to improve their executional capabilities. I’ve distilled our learnings into five...
We at Mod Op Strategic Consulting are often asked to summarize our approach to digital transformation in the enterprise. While specific technologies continue to rapidly evolve, this article, written by CTO Jonathan Murray, remains as relevant today as when it was...
As executives, we’ve all been pummeled with advice on the importance of strategic planning, setting goals and making tough choices. (At Mod Op Strategic Consulting, we’ve done our share of the pummeling). Less discussed is how to make tough choices as a group: How can...
Look at the calendar. That far along in the year already? It seems only yesterday when your organization started January with a twinkling sense of optimism and a strategic plan that laid out the next 12 months with military precision. But if your organization is like...
Is your company in need of digital transformation – or digitization? There’s an important distinction. With digitization, you’re doing the same thing – albeit in a digital way – but are not producing new results. In fact, this usually just adds costs without...
The need to accompany a well-articulated strategy with a clear plan to execute it has been counseled for thousands of years. The ancient Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, summed it up as: “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory, tactics without...
Join a group. Share. Learn. Advance your career. Meet up. Executives of membership-based associations are painfully aware that many of the basic roles their organizations have long played can now be handled over a smartphone – without them. The problem, in a nutshell,...
Digital is not just an update, it’s a new beast Adriaan Bouten July 22, 2016 At the risk of sounding redundant, I’d like to unpack the meaning of my assertion that digital is not just an update but rather a completely new beast. I’ve written about it before as it...
Not too long ago, professional membership associations held a near monopoly at the center of industry communities. Whether you were an architect, fireman, surgeon, auto dealer, or civil engineer an association with conventions, developmental resources, professional...