GOVERNANCE: Decision-making that is aligned, efficient, and transparent 

Governance in an organization is the mechanism by which repeating decisions, tasks, and communications occur efficiently, freeing the workforce from governance confusion and opening opportunity for creativity and innovation.

Symptoms of Ineffective Governance and Decision-making Process:
• Decisions don’t hold – there is push-back, second-guessing or decisions are ignored
• Duplicative decision-making – different entities/individuals address the same decisions causing confusion (a key source of low morale)
• Decision-making gaps – issues continually fall through the cracks, never getting the proper consideration
• Decision trumping – lack of trust and conflict between individuals, programs, departments, and with needed partners/stakeholders

Under-performing Governance can be fixed! 

​RRC's governance practice specializes in governance assessment and redesign, to ensure that clients are gaining top value from this mission-critical area. RRC's Governance Development Model is a proven methodology that supports leadership in advancing their ability to evaluate and revitalize the organization's overall governance structure and process. 
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RRC utilizes cutting-edge decision-support software that provides powerful insight in complex decision environments (internal budgets, grant funding, geographical prioritization, etc.). No more spreadsheets, no more black-box, no more parsing based on "what we did last year" or political whim.

• Decision-making reaches a whole new level of alignment: top leadership strategic priorities drive annual resource allocation and program work.
• Strategic value is a clear and quantifiable driver, as opposed to basing decisions only on "low-hanging fruit."
• The basis of decisions is transparent, not only in the moment but from year to year, so that learning and accountability can occur.
• Many individual perspectives are easily incorporated so that true collaboration can take place in a fraction of the time normally needed - and individual insights can be collected virtually, alleviating the need for numerous and costly meetings.
• And decision-relevant information is accessible real-time in a variety of illuminating graphic formats.

​​Governance Case Studies.

Governance is the mechanism by which decision-making occurs, with decisions its product. Ideally, decisions should flow like water. Good governance is like water pipes, or an irrigation system, or a watershed of rivers, streams, and cascading waterfalls, all designed to deliver clean, abundant water. 
​ Optimizing governance so that decision flow is predictable, responsive to change, and drives effective action is critical to success. Well-engineered governance creates optimal decision-making, which leads to desired results.