Strategic Management Consultants
In strategic management consulting, understanding the complex drivers of organisational performance is key. Causal Map offers a powerful tool for analysing stakeholder perspectives and visualising the intricate causal relationships in organizational systems.
Why Causal Map?
- Synthesise insights from multiple stakeholder interviews and market research
- Identify key leverage points for organisational change
- Visualise complex strategic landscapes
- Support data-driven decision making
- Answer questions such as: what are the factor contributing and/or hindering outcomes?, what are the perspectives of my stakeholders? are there unexpected outcomes or causal pathways?
Case Study: Chartered Management Institute
Charge Management Institute hired Causal Map to seek their members’ views on how protected characteristics impact on progression in management roles. A series of qualitative causal analyses of structured questions in four manager surveys on inclusion in the workplace were conducted. 5 reports on different areas were created: Ethnic, Socio, Gender, Disability and Age.
The reports explored how good modern management and leadership practices can help workplaces to embrace diversity towards the 5 areas above. Also, the study was able to find areas where there has been less progress and the reasons for that.
Questions answered by the study included:
- What works in implementing inclusive recruitment and progression practice?
- What are the challenges in current inclusive practices in the organisation?
- How workplaces can become more inclusive for different ages:? (respondents’ suggestions)
Case Study: Global Young Academy: Tracing the paths of GYA’s impact
GYA’s 10-year anniversary was an opportunity to reflect on what has been accomplished so far and to inform the strategic plan to increase impact for the next 10 years. An impact evaluation was commissioned by the GYA to explore this impact further. The overall goal of this impact assessment was to understand personal narratives of impact and to generate data to inform the development of the next 5-year strategic plan.
The aims of the impact assessment were to better understand:
- How members, alumni, and other young scientists experience GYA activities
- The impact of GYA activities on them (on the individual, their institutions and countries, and globally)
- To explore the contribution of the GYA to this impact
To collect this data, we sent a web survey to all GYA members, alumni, members of National Young Academies, and other young scientists (who may have had contact with GYA) inviting them to share their stories of the GYA. Of the 683 people reached, 103 completed the survey
We analysed the stories looking for examples of where people had said that 𝐵 leads to 𝐶 - for example, where someone said “I loved the regional meetings because they helped me widen my professional network”. Then all the 𝐵s (like, Global and regional interaction) and all the 𝐶s (like networks, friendships, support) were grouped into themes to create a Theory of Change for GYA. All the individual stories linking 𝐵s and 𝐶 s were synthesised into one story using a pre-defined set of analysis steps.
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