Adaptation Ltd Announces New Support Services to Help Boards Shape the Future

Peterborough, United Kingdom, February 06, 2007 --(PR.com)-- The boards of many companies damage corporate prospects and miss opportunities to benefit investors, customers and employees, according to Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas the chairman of Adaptation Ltd and author of ‘Shaping Things to Come’. Speaking at the IOD Convention 2007 about new forms of support the company now offers Prof. Coulson-Thomas argued that many boards need to think and act differently.

“Despite codes of governance best practice the boards of many companies still waste resources, cripple corporate potential and destroy shareholder wealth,” says Professor Coulson-Thomas, “They are looking over their shoulders at others, copying and playing catch up rather than shaping the future”.

The Professor warns than corporate governance considerations can lead to an excessive focus upon internal processes while external opportunities are overlooked. “Corporate performance depends primarily on what boards actually do and how their members behave rather than on formal governance considerations such as a board’s committee structure.” 

The new Adaptation services are designed to enable boards to add more value, make a greater contribution to corporate growth and create a better tomorrow. Coulson-Thomas believes: “Boards must challenge conventional thinking and question current practices.” 

Using approaches based upon exercises and checklists in Coulson-Thomas' book ‘Shaping Things to Come’ Adaptation will help boards and entrepreneurs to challenge traditional approaches and create distinct offerings, establish new markets and provide customers with additional choices.

‘Shaping Things to Come, strategies for creating alternative enterprises’ (ISBN: 1 901657 87 6) by Colin Coulson-Thomas is published by Blackhall Publishing and can be ordered from http://www.ntwkfirm.com/colin.coulson-thomas/books/shaping2.htm

Details of reports presenting critical success factors and winning ways identified by Prof. Coulson-Thomas’ research programme and related bespoke benchmarking reports and workshops he runs for Adaptation Ltd can be obtained from http://www.winningnewbusiness.biz/

Professor Coulson-Thomas the chairman of Adaptation Ltd has helped over 100 boards to improve board or corporate performance, is the author of some 40 books and reports and has spoken at over 200 major conferences in 35 countries. He can be contacted by Tel: 00 44 (0) 1733 361 149 or email: colinct@tiscali.co.uk and via http://www.adaptation.ltd.uk

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