By Terry Van Schaik, President-Elect and Senior Director & Publisher, Journal Publications, American Society of Clinical Oncology—The SSP Board of Directors and several 2010–2011 committee chairs used the September 21, 2010, meeting to consider the long-range planning needs of the Society. Participants worked under the premise that having a strategy is more important than having a document called “The Plan.”
Therefore, the primary outcome of the session was the identification of 10 strategic areas of concern that the SSP leadership should monitor over time and use to set priorities for strategy development.
The strategic areas are below in order of importance, according to a priority-setting vote by attendees during the session.
- Changing user expectations regarding accessibility and cost.
- Variety of new business models coexist, shaped in part by disciplinary diversity.
- A new cast of global and technology characters vie to compete and/or collaborate.
- Traditional organization charts explode and create new roles, skill requirements, etc.
- Disintermediation puts user trust and information integrity at risk.
- New international content sources.
- Broader range and types of delivery vehicles.
- Bidirectional means of content generation.
- Changing tenure and promotion policies and their implications.
- Demand for new industry metrics.
Prior to the Board’s February 2011 meeting, the participants at the September meeting will refine these subject areas into strategic issue statements, further prioritize them, and begin developing desired outcomes related to those issues that are agreed to be most important to SSP members. Strategy management teams will be formed to develop strategies and tactics that address these issues.
Stay tuned!
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