APIC has set up the Centre for Organisational Assessment and Development (COAD) to facilitate development of a new class of creative-dynamic organisations with outstanding capabilities to function and flourish in an environment of uncertainty, change and chaos. COAD is ready to show your organisations how it can help you take the path to dynamism and accelerated development. Please view details of a major corporate development program APIC completed in 2006.

Corporations may wish to enrol their PM rank and file in a suitable Knowledge Intensive Workshop APIC offers, i.e. to ensure that they will have the necessary fundamental knowledge in key areas of project and program management. Please view APIC workshops for details.

However, experience shows that knowledge by itself is seldom as effective as a systemic and holistic approach in which the entire organisation unit undergoes capability assessment and development. Annually organisations spend hundreds of billions of dollars on training and intensive short courses that do not lead to any significant performance and productivity gains. That is why we have set up COAD to work with partner organisation units on their quest for capability development and culture change.

Each organisation is unique with its own culture, history and approach. At APIC we realise this and so have researched and developed an approach to organisational assessment and development that leads to individually tailored solutions meeting the diverse needs of today´s technology-based organisations. Companies may put their staff through APIC´s Professional Development Planning Workshop to identify their needs and to aid them develop a dedicated learning and development plan with APIC's assistance and using APIC´s online tools and techniques). In summary, COAD is more than just a straight forward capability assessment and development service as it seeks to develop a superior class of organisations we call creative-dynamic organisations with the following characteristics:

• Distributed leadership (around shared vision)
• Customer centricity
• Risk resilience
• Project culture
• High velocity and adaptability
• Reliance on creativity and innovation
• Strategic partnership focus
• ICT-integrated business structures