The Smart Organization

Is your organization maturing as fast as it's aging? The key to organizational maturity and, in turn, long-term success, is the systems approach to management, as opposed to the functional or departmental approach. Why? Because the systems approach - when all the organizational parts are aligned, linked, and working interdependently in pursuit of common goals - maximizes the firm's ability to adapt to change imposed upon the business by external forces outside our control.

Mature organizations are interdependent wholes; immature organizations are dysfunctional heaps. In this context, effective leadership is defined as building "smart" organizations that continue to grow and develop as business systems to assure long-term success.

What Is Strategic Governance

Strategic Governance is an innovative approach to creating long-term shareholder value that uniquely integrates governance and strategy to achieve firm-level mission and long-term success. Firms that master the ability to apply this simple formula - Governance X Strategy = Mission - will have a sustainable advantage over the competition.

From a different and related point of view, Strategic Governance is the common language, common ground, and common cause for the inextricably linked fields of corporate governance, long-term shareholder value, and investment decision-making. The effects of this alignment of interests and efforts are breakthroughs in business transparency, organizational integrity, and investment soundness.

To learn more about Strategic Governance, also known as Shareholder Value Assurance, please visit the Publications page of www.markwsickles.com