Building Ecosystems to Tackle the World’s Largest Problems and Biggest Opportunities

For-profit and nonprofit organizations alike are attempting to tackle increasingly complex strategic initiatives—initiatives related to sustainability, social impact, industry innovation, and more. The challenge is that the bigger the initiative, the more stakeholders are involved and the harder it is to manage and measure.

Success requires aligning various functional areas as well as working collaboratively with an array of external organizations—partners, nonprofits, NGOs, agencies, vendors, government entities, investors, and more. When tackling initiatives of this magnitude, it’s essential to capitalize on the unique value each internal and external stakeholder brings to the table. Unfortunately, most organizations do not have a way to align and collaborate with multiple stakeholders simultaneously. In fact, it’s rare for those in charge—executives, initiative managers, and team leads—to even understand which organizations should be involved to fulfill specific needs.

To complicate matters further, when multiple organizations do manage to work together on shared initiatives, there is rarely one source of truth that provides insight into progress. It’s difficult to drive action across multiple, independent organizations without providing proof of which efforts are having the intended effect and which are falling short. This often leads to initiatives stalling and never fulfilling their intended purpose.

To overcome these challenges, a network support structure is needed that aligns multiple organizations on shared initiatives and provides insight into progress made toward desired outcomes.

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