This means that organizations of every stripe can no longer be assured of success, profitability, or even survival simply by doing what they have been doing in the same old way. Conversely, change and uncertainty can produce sudden, often strategic opportunities that those not so attuned simply miss, often to their organization’s irretrievable loss.

We at ALEXIS believe that in such circumstances any organization’s Strategic Policy, Strategic planning can be envisioned-- let alone carried out-- without factoring in the "political dimension", and involving the governments concerned and/or their relevant agencies from the beginning. Conversely, we do not believe governments can implement any transnational policy having concrete operational characteristics without appropriate private sector involvement. Unfortunately, private and public sectors do not know how to deal with each other effectively on most project management issues, especially transnational ones.

Finally, we are convinced that classical or established channels of communication among organizations are today either largely nonfunctional or so bureaucratically clogged that they no longer produce anything approaching the desired results. In fact, inter- and intra-organizational communication problems often become the principal obstacles to task accomplishment.

We say the above of governments, private sector enterprises, social service producing entities and multilateral organizations. To prove our point, we ask our readers simply to apply these general statements to whatever specific situation may come to mind, preferably to one for which he or she may be directly responsible. We wager that the "fit" in most cases will be close, perhaps exact.

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