Regional Chamber Strategic Alliance Feasibility Study

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“Think of today’s economic crisis as a glorious opportunity to shed old habits and activities while effecting positive change and building new strengths that will foster a strong, prosperous future.” OpXGroup quote, American Chamber Commerce Executive (ACCE) Chamber Executive Magazine Spring 2009 issue

Project Title:

Regional Chamber Strategic Alliance Feasibility Study

Project Champion:

Kres Bjornsson, Vice President, Municipal & Commercial Banking, The Bank of Greene County & President, Greene County Chamber Board of Directors

Project Sponsor:

Tracy McNally, Executive Director, Greene County Chamber of Commerce

Project Managers:

Joe Cozart, Sr. CAM & Joan Cozart, M.Ed., Ed.S., OpXGroup

The Project Purpose:

Support the rural landscape

Help existing places thrive

Create great new places

The Project Goal:

“To guide a process that leads to the best possible results for the organizations involved”

Project Website:
  http://opxgroup.joejoan.com/

The Project Ideas: Explore ways for the area Chambers of Commerce to creatively align in order to more proactively support the Regional business community. In a robust way this will establish strategic alliances to support the rural landscape by creating an economic climate that enhances the viability of working lands and conserves natural lands. This will help existing places thrive by taking care of assets and investments such as downtowns, Main Streets, existing infrastructure, and places that the Community values, and create great new places by building vibrant, enduring neighborhoods and communities that people, especially young people, don’t want to leave.

The Project Benefits: To realize that the benefits of strategic alliances are not short-term and tactical but medium- to long-term and strategic:

·         Better market positioning

·         A larger market share

·         A higher public profile

·         Greater political influence

·         Better economies of scale

Ultimately to guide a process that leads to the best possible results for the organizations involved. These are the likely, and substantial, benefits of strategic alliances, but they take time and planning to realize.

Joe Cozart, Sr. CAM & Joan Cozart, M.Ed., Ed.S., are principals of OpXGroup and are “Preferred Service Providers” of the American Chamber Commerce Executives (ACCE) for Community-Wide Strategic Planning & Visioning, ACCE National, Regional, & State Conference facilitators & speakers, often published in the ACCE Chamber Executives Magazine, on the faculty of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Organizational Management, Florida Association Chamber Professionals (FACP) Industry Partners, and “Trusted Advisor’s” to the Western Association Chamber Executives (W.A.C.E.), associations, nonprofits and the private sector. OpXGroup is well-versed in Chamber management and community leadership challenges and focus on leadership development, organizational design, change management strategies and strategic facilitation. OpXGroup is skilled and experienced in multiple research methodologies and facilitation techniques used to conduct community based, results-oriented strategic planning meetings emphasizing alignment, execution and the ability to help chambers of commerce & their community “break through to the next level”. OpXGroup and it’s partners have raised over $700 million in Capital Campaigns since 1988. Joe & Joan can be reached at info@OpXGroup.com or (407) 217-5358. www.joejoan.com