Premier Online Gathering of Strategy Experts Thought Leaders Discuss Strategy Challenges at World Strategy Week

Princeton Junction, NJ, September 21, 2014 --(PR.com)-- “Organizations face loss of scale advantage, systemic risk, cultural shifts, shortened decision cycles and exponential change,” commented Lee Crumbaugh, president of the Association for Strategic Planning (ASP), producer of World Strategy Week. “This constantly changing world, coupled with technology innovations, present challenges our predecessors didn’t have to deal with 10 years ago.”

World Strategy Week provides an opportunity to hold a global discussion on critical issues affecting organizational success - from leadership roles to organizational alignment to innovation and successful implementation. Through a series of webinars, panelists will also discuss how technology changes and social media networking are affecting strategy implementation. Others will take a look through the future's crystal ball to discuss new approaches to strategy, strategic thinking and strategic planning.

Crumbaugh’s brainchild, World Strategy Week will bring together the world’s leading experts across all industries to address key questions affecting organizational success:

- What is the state of strategy today?
- What role do leaders play in organizational success?
- How do organizations implement successfully to avoid the 70% failure rate?
- Where do social and technology fit with strategic success?
- What innovations and challenges lie ahead that affect organizational strategy?

The answers to these questions and more will help executives and leaders manage more effectively. A series of five webinars are planned featuring 3 to 5 panelists, each addressing one of the key questions above. World Strategy Week Panelists include:

* Dr. Ahmed Darwish, former cabinet minister for the government of Egypt;
* Ken Berger, President & CEO of Charity Navigator;
* Jeff De Cagna, founder of Association Renewal LLC and avowed association contrarian;
* Jeroen de Flander, Co-founder & Director of the Performance Factory, the Netherlands;
* Dr. Lorraine Lear, CEO of Lear Consultants, South Africa
* Anthony Marshall, Global CEO and Director of IBM Institute for Business Value;
* Chris Paton, Managing Director of Quirk Solutions, United Kingdom
* Howard Rohm, CEO and Founder of the Balanced Scorecard Institute;
* Carole Switzer, Co-Founder & President of the Open Compliance & Ethics Group

In addition to hosting its own five anchor webinars during World Strategy Week, ASP is reaching out to Alliance Partners - other associations in the management and strategy fields - to host their own events during World Strategy Week. The Institute of Management Consultants (IMC-USA) is planning three events tied to three of the key questions that World Strategy Week addresses, and several of ASP’s 15 US chapters are doing the same.

Registration is open and passes may be purchased for all the anchor webinars or for single events. A public all access pass is just $99 until October 24, after which the price moves up to $109.

The Association for Strategic Planning: Founded in 1999, ASP is the only not-for-profit professional association dedicated to advancing thought and practice in strategy development and deployment for business, non-profit and government organizations. ASP provides opportunities to explore cutting-edge strategic planning principles and practices that enhance organizational success and advance members' and organizations' knowledge, capability, capacity for innovation, and professionalism.