Opportunity Collaboratives, or hubs, are innovative initiatives designed to revitalize distressed communities by centralizing services and resources. This approach focuses on leveraging existing nonprofit and government resources efficiently, ensuring services are located where they are most needed, and scaling them to match community needs. This article explores how the Insight Strategic Concepts®’ (ISC) and OBE Advisors LLC process works, its principles, and its potential to universally help communities achieve prosperity.

Collaboration is challenging, and it is more challenging, if not impossible, when leaders allow dysfunctional behaviors within the team. Here are the collaboration killers we find to be the root of collaboration failure among teams.

NWI Works in Northwest Indiana is critical to workforce development because of its local focus, training programs, job placement services, support for diverse populations, economic impact, and partnerships with key stakeholders. By investing in NWI Works, the region can build a stronger, more skilled workforce that drives economic growth and prosperity for years to come.

Approximately 16 million properties in the United States are considered vacant and abandoned, often indicative of blighted or distressed real estate. This figure represents about 11% of the total housing inventory, highlighting a substantial challenge for community revitalization. Given that 83% of the U.S. population resides in urban areas, it is estimated that around 13.3 million of these properties are located in urban or more populated regions, presenting significant opportunities for revitalizing downtowns to foster prosperous communities.

In our strategic growth planning and organizational design work with leaders, we have completed projects ranging from community planning to revenue-building project management to redesigning teams to achieve clearer organizational and operational objectives in a wide variety of for-profit, nonprofits and government organizations. One thing remains true – consistent change and momentous growth endeavors are only achieved to the extent to which optimistic, influential and trustworthy leadership is present.

Intentional Unconsciousness is the choice to deny ourselves the awareness necessary to experience ourselves in joy. It is the act of denying ourselves the God-given right to be fulfilled, loved and open to the possibilities bestowed upon us.

Most cities lack experienced leadership in change management. This, along with the resounding challenges listed below have compounded due to the pandemic and the overall contentiousness of current times.

Insight has designed a complete interview process that assesses all three parts of the mind for final job candidate selections. For key roles, we profile preferences, natural instincts, thinking abilities and overall job fit to meet your organization’s growth objectives.

Private and public leadership must organize and collaborate to successfully turnaround a neighborhood. Together, they must be facilitated to lead through the complexities of transforming each neighborhood within a city, especially to the point that most cities need to be transformed.

Since the reorganization, the Daman Products Creative Team has launched a variety of new products that have significantly increased their sales. In fact, they have far surpassed their initial goals, with new product revenue of $4 million and counting.

Have you been doing strategic planning on an annual basis as a paper-pushing exercise? That will have to change. In the months to come, you’re going to have to make decisions very quickly on fundamental opportunities that may drive your earnings performance for the next decade or more, and you’ve got to be prepared to make these decisions in real time. When it comes to your organization’s future, scenario planning is one of the tools you must regularly refine to adapt as necessary. 

Ready for a rebirth of innovation? Learn the nine-stage gate process for activating innovation planning with your team. Insight has facilitated leaders in modifying and implementing the stage-gate invention process, as developed by Thomas D. Kuczmarski, author of Innovation: Leadership Strategies for the Competitive Edge.