Government historically has been characterized as a bureaucracy.

• A commitment to transparent accountability
• Authority is highly fragmented
• Top management turnover leads to massive gaps in information retention
• Staff turnover or lateral moves
• Jobs being defined by role in the bureaucracy
• A lack of cross-functional processes
• Employee socialization is haphazard

Increasingly politics and politicians have been characterized by:

• The promise of new initiatives that ensure election and re-election (often in the form of innovation such as outsourcing to the public sector)
• Allocation of scarce resources to new initiatives at the cost of existing programs
• Avoidance of risky initiatives during an election cycle year

The relationship between politicians and management in government has increasingly been characterized by:

• A lack of integration between new and existing programs, resulting in a lessening of agency’s clarity of purpose. Consequential lowering moral and results
• High turnover of staff (human capital) resulting in:

Lower productivity

Increased human error (a lowering of critical thinking)

Lack of meaningful innovation

A focus on tasking and short-term problem solving rather than sustainable productivity

Poor or non-existent communication between upper level management, middle management and operations.

Major gaps in the informational structures of an organization.

Application of the iCapBiz Solution to the Government Dilemma

The Path-lign Process™ is an integrated platform of disciplines that leverages the use of leadership tools, including the Path-ligner™ Critical Thinking and Alignment tool. The iCapBiz solution achieves the following results:

• Dramatically increases the critical thinking of the upper level management team through a unique proven methodology. Quality decisions are a result of gathering relative information and making sense of the information through the iCapBiz tools.
• Easily and efficiently converts the decisions of the of the executives into a communication map that can be used by middle management to integrate, align, operationalize and monitor new and existing initiatives.
• Provides a world class facilitation and coaching tool for middle management resulting in a dramatic increase in middle management productivity. This corresponds with increased time for the middle manager to design systems focus on problem solving and improve operations.
• Closes the skill gap between high productivity workers and low and medium roductivity workers.
• Lowers turnover rate.