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Professional Insurgency - a guide to achieving step change in governance. CLIVE BLUNT | PRINCIPAL | GREENSTREAM PTY LTD Better Boards Conference - Adelaide 2014. insurgent noun a person fighting against a governing or occupying force; a rebel or revolutionary.
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Professional Insurgency - a guide to achieving step change in governance CLIVE BLUNT | PRINCIPAL | GREENSTREAM PTY LTD Better Boards Conference - Adelaide 2014
insurgent noun a person fighting against a governing or occupying force; a rebel or revolutionary. "an attack by armed insurgents" synonyms: rebel, revolutionary, revolutionist, mutineer, agitator, subversive, guerrilla, anarchist, terrorist, bioterrorist, narcoterrorist, ecoterrorist, cyberterrorist, agroterrorist, rioter;
Safe Topics • Reputation, Purpose & Identity • Strategic Effectiveness • Competitiveness • Innovation • Financial Robustness & Rigour • Transparency & Ethics • Organisational Structure
Reputation, Purpose & Identity • “Are we who we say we are?” • “What’s the single best thing we could do to • improve our reputation?” • “Do our funders and stakeholders understand • our purpose like we do? If not – why not?”
Strategic Effectiveness • “What could we change in our strategy to better • reflect our charter or imprimatur?” • “Where is the weakest link in our strategy?” • (Planning, Communication, Implementation, • Monitoring, Improvement etc.)
Competitiveness • “What can we do to raise our competitive • capability, and even that of our industry?” • “Are there synergies to be had with other service • providers who look, feel, smell like us?” • (service offering, delivery channels, pricing etc.)?”
Innovation • “What service initiatives would change the whole • dynamic of our industry sector, and what’s • stopping us from doing that?” • “Would a local service cooperative or regional • innovation council approach work? Either way • – we should lead it!”
Financial Robustness & Rigour • “How can we build organisational worth that ties • to service value without spending money?” • “Who are our immediate smaller /bigger fish • and what should we be doing about that?” • “Should we be looking at ways to diversify • income?”
Transparency & Ethics • “Which questions would we be embarrassed to • be asked?” • “What behaviours exist in our organisation that • we wouldn’t want on the front page of • tomorrows paper?”
Organisational Structure • “What is the least efficient / weakest part of • our management / service structure? What • can we do to improve it?” • “Do we know the circumstances under which • we would dismiss our board to create a • stronger, better outcome for our clients? • Why haven’t we done this yet?”
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