On Saturday, a small group of dedicated AMBCQ members gave up their time to be involved in a strategic planning workshop. Many thanks to all present including Doug, Bryan and Sue, and Maxwell, Kiong (and myself) for the day. The workshop ran from 9:30am through to just after 3:30pm and was held at Christies Corporate.
As all members will be aware, AMBCQ has experienced a lot of growth over the last four years, since the organisation was reactivated in September 2006. We have gone from a zero base to being the largest and most active chapter of the AMBC in Australia, with over 50 members.
As Kiong and I do this sort of thing for a living through Paradigm Infinitum, we led the session and used a lot of Paradigm Infinitum's strategic analysis tools for strategic planning workshops. We started with an historical overview of the development of AMBCQ, our relationship to MABC in KL and AMBC national and the other state bodies, and some recent developments. We also reviewed our mission and vision. We then undertook a stakeholder analysis, mapping the environment in which AMBCQ operates and its links to various organisations and bodies. We also analysed the impact that some of the stakeholders have on AMBCQ. Following this, we did a PESTEL analysis, looking at the political, economic, sociocultural, technical, environmental and legal factors which are currently impacting on the AMBCQ.
After a break for quick and tasty lunch at Oriental Corner, just down the street, we reconvened and performed a Futures Analysis and talked about possible futures for AMBCQ, what we might face in the near future and how we might deal with these issues. Finally, we did a SWOT analysis, taking onboard all that we had looked at from the other methods of analysis into account, and from this we gleaned insights into various threats and also numerous opportunities for AMBCQ.
From all the analysis, we then had a little time to talk about the priorities, challenges and opportunities AMBCQ is currently facing, or will face in the near future. As we only had a few hours, we will reconvene online to get into actually planning our future strategies, and action planning, and all present committed to continuing the strategic planning via email. After all that intensive work, we went to the Hilton and rewarded ourselves with afternoon tea.
It was an invaluable day, and it is always important to have input from members, old and new, and the new perspectives and ideas they were able to put forward. I believe it was a crucial exercise that will help make the future for AMBCQ more sustainable in the long run.
We will continue to work on the strategic plan and hope to have it finalised by mid- to late October.
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