Optimising Stakeholder Alignment
Making strategic collaboration an enterprise-wide core competence
Optimising Stakeholder Alignment
Making strategic collaboration an enterprise-wide core competence
We believe the future of work is collaborative.
We enhance stakeholder alignment with your goals and plans.
We improve your organisation's core collaboration competence.
What We Do
We help you specify the common purpose your group needs to deliver.
We ensure your group works together effectively and efficiently.
We optimise your groups alignment and endorsement of the goals and plans.
We provide a repeatable, common, data-driven collaboration meta-process.
You deliver your targeted outcomes.
The Process
How You Benefit
- Significantly reduces the time taken to reach desired outcomes, from 6-12 months to 6 weeks end-to-end.
- Resolves conflicts, builds consensus, and gets people working towards a common purpose.
- Fosters a more efficient and productive collaborative environment.
- Cost effective deployment of internal resources.
CHRS in Partnership with SchellingPoint
We are delighted to be in partnership with SchellingPoint bringing their technology and methodologies to the UK.
SchellingPoint researched and developed the strategic collaboration technology and techniques across 500+ projects. These include corporate strategies, global coalitions, government policy development, early-stage ventures, process improvement, product innovations, mergers, and outsourcing contracts.
The SchellingPoint solutions are based upon the work of Nobel Prize recipient Prof. Thomas Schelling, Harvard professor Chris Argyris, and the work of Michael Taylor and Tim Chambers in Relational Network Analysis.
Our Partners
Frequently Asked Questions
Please reach us at GMM@chrsltd.co.uk if you cannot find an answer to your question.
A Strategic collaboration is a structured, data-driven meta-process designed to turn diverse opinions into the most valuable, viable and endorsed plans using unique methods and software. It maximises alignment among participants by identifying misalignments of thought and including them in decision-making. This establishes common goals and develops agreed-upon actions, increasing the probability of achieving the desired outcomes. This helps teams reach goals on time, within budget, and with full endorsement.
Alignment is an objective measure of a group’s like-mindedness around a shared topic. It predicts the probability & quality of coordinated action without further dialogue on the topic. Like oxygen is for life, alignment is crucial for collaboration success. Alignment is a continuous variable, not a binary state, and should be actively measured and maintained throughout a project.
Using data, algorithms and mathematics, precise levels of a group’s Alignment are identified.
Our approach is based on SchellingPoint’s research into Action Science, the Theory of Interdependent Decision-Making, and Social Exchange Theory.
Unlike traditional methods that rely on a linear, cause-and-effect approach, our approach:
- Uses systems thinking to consider the complexity of organisational dynamics
- Engages stakeholders virtually and under a personal NDA resulting in greater participation and confidence
- Can be conducted entirely online minimising the need for meetings and ensuring only necessary conversations take place
- Uses software which minimises costs and ‘gives back’ time to busy leaders
- Provides a common and repeatable competency across the whole enterprise
Unlike traditional methods that rely on a linear, cause-and-effect approach, our approach uses systems thinking to consider the complexity of organisational dynamics. This helps collaborations account for all critical factors, leading to more complete and successful goals and plans.
Yes, this approach is universal and adaptable across sectors, industries, organisations, and can be used with groups of any size in the tens, hundreds or thousands.
Ultimately, any sized group of people, working on any objective, in any indsutry who need to come together to deliver a common purpose can use our Strategic Collaboration approach.
The duration can vary from a few days to 6–8 weeks, depending on when the topic needs to be delivered and the group’s schedules and needs.
Individuals - internal or external to the organisation - are invited to participate based on their knowledge and relevance to the topic. This can include Subject Matter Experts. The process is then guided by a Collaboration Architect.
To date, our approach has been used on teams with as few as 3 people to as many as 14,900. There is no upper limit.
No. Typically, the length of time a participant would spend is circa 2 hours over 6 weeks.
By participating in a Strategic Collaboration, participants will make their voice heard and learn what others have to say about the topic. Contributions are anonymous and under a personal non-disclosure agreement. This makes participants feel safer and more comfortable providing their opinions because nothing can be attributed to them.
No. By identifying the level of alignment within any group towards a set of opinions, we can then use that information in decision-making and create a more complete set of goals and plans which stakeholders can get behind (endorse). We are not delivering alignment of thinking but instead alignment to action (endorsement). The reason we can deliver this is because everyone’s voice has been heard and included in the decision-making process.
Having conducted 500+ collaborations, we have identified that at the beginning of any collaboration, no group is sufficiently aligned towards an objective. No matter how aligned groups think they are at the start of any project, the data shows this is not the case.
Rather than treating alignment as binary, consider it a dynamic characteristic of a group, which can be mathematically measured on a scale of 0 - 100. Our Strategic Collaboration approach enables groups to identify where there alignment is positioned on this scale and establish whether they have sufficient alignment to deliver the objective. We move “Are we aligned?” to “How aligned are we?” without soft measures, unreliable commentary or informed intuition. Instead we provide hard data.
No. Misalignment has the potential for good. Misalignment is where two or more people do not agree on something: a current situation, a new objective, or the potential for a problem. Misalignment, when properly surfaced, offers an opportunity for diverse viewpoints to converge into a cohesive understanding, ultimately driving greater alignment in action. This is what our Strategic Collaboration approach achieves.