Public and private-sector organizations alike face significant challenges and barriers to their success. The global marketplace, demanding customers, and reduced barriers to competitive entry present significant challenges to private sector organizations. Public sector organizations are faced with an equally challenging environment, characterized by a changing post Cold War and post 9/11 geo-political landscape, competition for limited resources, increased accountability requirements, and an increased demand by taxpayers to increase their return on investment. Through our experiences with public and private-sector organizations, ICOR has developed key principles that reflect our point of view:

Principle 1:
ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS REQUIRES THE STRATEGIC INTEGRATION OF AN ORGANIZATION'S FULL CAPACITY

In order to help our clients achieve their respective missions, ICOR believes that organizations must consistently link and mobilize all of their resources, assets, information, technology, processes and investments – its full organizational capacity – in the right strategic direction. We refer to this as strategic integration. We believe that when organizations are strategically integrated, they are optimally positioned to achieve sustainable organizational success – delivering their products and services in a high-performance manner, satisfying customers, shareholders, and constituents, and unlocking their full organizational potential and value.

Principle 2:
THE COMMITMENT OF RESOURCES IS THE DEFINING INDICATOR IN DETERMINING IF AN ORGANIZATION IS EXECUTION-ORIENTED AND SERIOUS ABOUT DELIVERING WHAT IT PROMISED

Linking strategy to execution - This principal is based on the belief that organizations must close the gap between what they have committed to their stakeholders and what they are actually doing. Many organizations create high-impact strategies and have the best of intentions, but fail to commit the resources needed to execute the strategy. We believe that successful strategy implementation requires real organizational commitment as represented by the allocation of the financial, human, and other resources required to implement strategy. Our experience has shown that the commitment of resources is the defining indicator in determining if an organization is execution-oriented and serious about delivering what it promised.

Principle 3:
ORGANIZATIONS MUST TAKE A TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP APPROACH TO BRING ALL LEVELS OF THE ORGANIZATION TOGETHER

ICOR believes that organizational success can only be achieved if the organization has the capacity and aptitude to execute relentlessly and use change as an opportunity – not a threat. Our experience has shown that lapses in culture and leadership rob organizations of the “will to succeed” and the inability to execute their missions or respond to change. We believe that organizations must take a top-down and bottom –up approach to bring all levels of the organization together under a shared vision and purpose. Focused, steady leadership and an embedded “culture of execution” and adaptability are also essential components – especially as it relates to sustaining success once it is achieved.