Helping Private Organizations

Through Tailored Projects

 

The typical way many private organizations try to solve their big challenges is through concentrating on the elite organizational leadership and supplementing them with small numbers of elite outside consultants and experts. This elite crew then goes through traditional methods of understanding their options, makes the final decisions, and tells everyone else in the organization or related to the the organization the plan. 

 

This traditional approach is often ineffective and sometimes downright dangerous because it misses big opportunities in tapping into far more people’s ideas on the front end, and it risks alienating everyone on the back-end. Next Agenda’s process takes advantage of that opportunity and avoids that risk.

 

Tapping into the Minds of Many

Next Agenda’s process opens up what has previously been an elite, closed process. Our approach to meeting design is to get more innovative outsiders into the physical meeting and tap into the talents of even more experts online. Our immersive video techniques open up the proceedings of what happens in critical physical meetings and allow everyone in your organization, your key stakeholders, and, if desired, even the public to understand what took place.

 

Much of the best material from the meeting, the working groups, and interviews with key leaders and experts then gets moved to a collaborative online environment where those who could not attend the meetings but who have valuable input, can help evolve and refine the ideas. 

 

Our more transparent approach allows your organization to get early feedback on potential solutions and to give stakeholders a chance to vet those concerns. Such a process builds much good will with stakeholders and the public, given the norms emerging in our much more transparent world. That said, we work with you to ensure that only the material you want exposed gets out there. We may borrow journalistic techniques for covering your meeting but you are always firmly in control of the output. Our collaborative web platform for private projects has various levels of access and you control all access to material on our collaborative website and can determine levels of exposure for different players in the process. 

 

Our Three Areas of Expertise

The Next Agenda model for problem-solving involves three key areas where we bring world-class expertise and much recent innovation: meeting design; video capture and production; and web collaboration. We see the power in using all of them together in one overarching problem-solving process. However, we have done substantial innovation in each distinct area that sets us apart from other companies working in those generic fields.

 

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Catalyzing Public

Catalyzing a Public Network

Of Remarkable Innovators from Diverse Fields

There are far too few places where talented, knowledgeable people can gather to meet, whether physically or virtually online, with like-minded people who want to do their part to help solve the challenges their country or smaller communities face. There are not a lot of ways for people with ideas and energy to actively contribute to figuring out the complex problems of out times. This is particularly true when you have a full-time job and can only give a portion of your time and energy in helping in this public capacity. 

 

Helping Private Orgs

Helping Private Organizations

Through Tailored Projects

The typical way many private organizations try to solve their big challenges is through concentrating on the elite organizational leadership and supplementing them with small numbers of elite outside consultants and experts. This elite crew then goes through traditional methods of understanding their options, makes the final decisions, and tells everyone else in the organization or related to the the organization the plan. 

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Next Agenda Team

The Next Agenda Team

Next Agenda is a new breed of startup company that takes on both common public challenges as well as private ones. An effective new way to help solve big, complex problems can also be applied to problems that private organizations face. Next Agenda can apply our process or parts of the process to tailored projects for individual companies or organizations. 

 

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