About SchellingPointProfessor Thomas Schelling started his 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics acceptance speech stating that the most important event in the second half of the 20th century was the event that did not occur -- the detonation of a nuclear weapon in anger. The concept of coordinated action with minimal communication was instrumental in producing this outcome.As former management consultants, company founders, CEO's, board members, and senior executives, we at SchellingPoint seek something similar for organizations -- that certain things never again occur:* Leaders justifying with great logic why it’s reasonable their initiative didn’t realize its full potential.* Groups frustrated that 'We’ve been discussing this for the last three years! What’s going to change this time?'* Colleagues asking each other 'What happened? That's not what we discussed in the meeting!'* The emotional toll and drain on productivity, caused when people feel misaligned with those they need to be working with.* Leaders saying 'Let’s get aligned' with no direct means to do so.Our mission is to enable organizations to leverage non-likemindedness, and no longer pay the heavy cost of misalignment.The Problem: Organizations advance via their internal and external collaborations -- strategies, policies, processes, projects, and business relationships. Optimizing alignment is key to their success, and should be repeatable and efficient, however…* People cannot measure alignment; we can only sense it.* The skill of ‘managing alignment’ has not been something you could be taught.* You have had to rely on unreliable and inefficient methods.* Collaboration technologies have just automated the same manual processes.* Despite decades of work by researchers like Prof. Chris Argyris, the Science of Action has not become a common business tool.* Nor has the exemplary work of individuals such as Prof. Thomas Schelling and his work on the Theory of Interdependent Decision Making translated into tangible, every day business tools -- despite it explaining much of the behavior we see in organizations today when it comes to groups interacting to achieve joint results.SchellingPointSP2_2bf9bf46-e3be-11e5-b6db-a84f514a5bbcAlignment ManagersInternal and external consultants, trained and certified by SchellingPoint as Alignment Managers, are transforming management consulting.Alignment Managers are responsible for the delivery of Alignment Cycles. Their expertise is primarily creating plans and projects with optimal alignment: how to lead a group from “We each think this” to "We all agree to do that", in the most accurate, effective and efficient way. Dependent on their background and their role in a cycle, many Alignment Managers bring additional domain expertise to their projects. Or other Subject Matter Experts can be added as participants in an Alignment Cycle.Consulting FirmsSchellingPoint's Software empowers Consulting Firms to efficiently create superior plans with their clients with the strongest alignment at the end of a project.... actions are coordinated to attain valuable outcomes_2bf9c112-e3be-11e5-b6db-a84f514a5bbcTo enable organizations to leverage non-likemindedness and no longer pay the heavy cost of misalignment._2bf9c1e4-e3be-11e5-b6db-a84f514a5bbcPotentialFor your strategies, policies, processes, projects, and business relationships to realize their greatest potential, a new approach is required.We believe:Non-LikemindednessNon-likemindedness is every person's right, and is often valuable, but your groups must align around the actions they will, and will not, take.Strategic AlignmentIt is possible to get your people pulling together in the same direction, but it is labor intensive and your results are too uncertain.CollaborationSchellingPoint defines 'a collaboration' as two or more people -- in one organization, two, or several -- with a common purpose around which they must coordinate their actions to attain valuable outcomes.Strategies, policies, processes, projects, and business relationships.SchellingPoint has currently mapped over 90 different collaboration situations that frequently occur in organizations, where a high degree of alignment is critical to their success.QualityThe quality of each collaboration determines the direction and distance your organization advances.ScalabilityTherefore the magnitude of the situation calls for something scalable throughout organizations.ProcessWhen process is appropriately applied, and the right technology is leveraged, order-of-magnitude efficiencies are gained, and outcomes can be accurately predicted.TechnologyEfficiencyOutcomesPredictionOptimizationOur research lead to the concepts, methods and technology of Alignment Optimization (AO).PlansAccurate, viable and endorsed plans ... using Alignment Optimization softwareAccuracyViabilityEndorsementExecutionExecution does not have to be so difficult, if the underlying plans are genuinely endorsed.StrategiesStrategies, Policies, Processes, Innovation, Change Initiatives and Business Relationships.PoliciesInnovation ChangeBusinessRelationshipsEmpowermentSchellingPoint's Alignment Optimization (AO) software empowers you to efficiently create plans with the strongest alignment.AnalysisFinally…an analytical approach to alignment that yields quantifiable results beyond human limitations.QuantificationResultsPartnershipUse our software as a service, facilitated by your own internal or our partners' consultants.Concepts, Methods & TechnologyDeploy the concepts, methods and technology of Alignment Optimization to power collaborations._2bf9c298-e3be-11e5-b6db-a84f514a5bbc1Business SchoolsThe underlying management science of Alignment Optimization (AO) is now being taught at a growing number of leading US and international business schools.CollaboratorsThe methods and technology are applicable to any group of people, in any number of organizations, anywhere in the world, collaborating around any topic.You can learn to use AO yourself, or buy it as a service.You can now learn and deploy the concepts, methods and technology of Alignment Optimization to power all of your collaborations. No more death-by-meeting, or long, laborious consulting methodologies._2bf9c360-e3be-11e5-b6db-a84f514a5bbcStrategic AlignmentMaximize the value of alignment._2bf9c428-e3be-11e5-b6db-a84f514a5bbc2Alignment Optimization enables you to maximize the value of alignment, and eradicate costly misalignment – at the pace required by today's organizations._2bf9c4dc-e3be-11e5-b6db-a84f514a5bbc2016-03-06http://www.schellingpoint.com/about/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net