The Five Disciplines of Healthy Consortia
Every consortium wants to grow and thrive. The Strategic Advisory Team at Virtual has decades of experience working with leadership teams to chart new growth for consortia. Our "Five Disciplines of Healthy Consortia" is a framework to guide strategic conversations which also scores groups across 30 different practices along with generating a detailed action plan to achieve long-term success.
- Market Relevance: Necessary and urgent need
- Strategic Alignment: Driving towards shared impacts
- Operational Stability: Facilitate predictable outcomes
- Engagement: Ensuring timely results
- Resiliency: Redirect change towards growth
Consortia follow a predictable lifecycle that we categorize as Exploring, Launching, Scaling, Maturing, Plateau, and with a successful reimagine effort, back to Exploring again. Our action plan will not only be customized for your journey, but will prioritize tactics you can take at every step of your lifecycle transitions.
Timely Action Plan for Success
We know consortia have five stages of growth: Exploring, Launching, Scaling, Maturing, and Plateau. But across the Five Disciplines, where should mindful leadership focus organizational attention for growth? When consortia are starting out, in the Exploring stage, it is most important to focus on Market Relevance and Strategic Alignment across the founder group. If you are Maturing, you should focus more on Engagement and Resiliency. Each stage of growth corresponds to a practice-proven action plan.
Flexible Approach
The team at Virtual can engage with consortia at a variety of different levels. Each can be customized to deliver the precise value you need to set your path for growth.
- Basic: Self-Assessment using Five Disciplines Framework with Snap Shot Report generated by an AI Agent that integrates our decades of institutional knowledge for a real-time overview.
- Standard: Leader-led assessment which often includes stakeholder interviews, member surveys, a Snap Shot Report, an Organizational Health Dashboard, and action plan development
- Premium: Following a Standard engagement this level also includes executive leadership support to implement and track plan success.
Get Started
Our Basic offering is a free online Self-Assessment. The Audit takes 15-20 minutes to complete. Just a few minutes after submitting the audit, you will receive a Snap Shot Report generated by our AI Agent (BETA) that integrates our decades of institutional knowledge with your answers for a real-time overview and your “Top Three” areas of focus for growth.