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

Symptoms of Ineffective 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 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 decision-making 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 then 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 a critical to success. Well-engineered governance creates optimal decision-making, which leads to desired results.