Driving research to improve practice.

The Global Research Council’s mission is to improve the application of advisory boards by undertaking analysis of scientific research and collaboration activities.

By providing a knowledge-sharing platform for academics to research this field, it creates access for best practice practitioners, governance board directors and thought leaders for the benefit of all.

Global Research Council Purpose

The Global Research Council takes an unbiased validation approach to the study of the role of advisory boards and examines what works and what does not, to determine opportunities and limitations.

The role of the Global Research Council is to collect data, case studies and research. We collaborate equally with advisory board professionals, organisations and leading academics globally in the study of governance constraint and advisory board adaptation within modern governance systems.

Knowledge Sharing

Bringing together curated, practical and outcome focused research. This includes distribution of ‘Practitioner Summary’ literature reviews, organisational and advisor data, case studies, impact assessments, research reports and content to understand the must-have insights into the sector.
Living Research

Think Tanks, knowledge sharing, unbiased road testing and problem-solving in collaboration to dive deeper.
Innovation Partnerships

Collaborating with like-minded and future focused organisations and institutions in exploring the new. This includes research partnerships, technical committees and collaboration frameworks.

Research Framework

The Advisory Board Centre supports the development, testing, validation and monitoring of best practice. To achieve this, our advisory board research framework supports the sector through independent assessment and sharing of knowledge and information.

As a professional body, our responsibility in our research is to constantly challenge and validate value being derived from advisory models for organisations at all stages and sectors.

The overarching research committee oversees the research agenda including primary and secondary research. Research findings are provided to the advisory community, government agencies, industry groups and organisations.

Advocacy and Research Purpose

Advocacy and Research undertaken including who we partner with, supports our purpose to provide a practical pathway to sharpen decision making, improve governance effectiveness and drive impact through effective implementation and engagement of advisory boards.

What does this mean in practical terms? It is important to be clear on definitions, so we are purposeful in our approach to our voice and research parameters:

SHARPEN DECISION MAKING

Decision Making Confidence, empowered by insight gained through the deployment of quality information and informers to strengthen the organisational ability to execute effectively.
IMPROVE GOVERENCE SYSTEM EFFECTIVENSS

Integrated Governance Systems where advisory boards as thinking systems add value in the broader organisational decision-making cycle. From Thinking Systems informing the Decision Systems followed by Post Decision Systems.
Drive Impact

Impact examines how actions affect a defined criterion, spanning from individual organisations to the broader macro environment. Impact can be evaluated across organisational and social outcome indicators.
Effective IMPLEMENTATION AND Engagement

Implementation and engagement of advisory boards examines the effectiveness of internal management, role clarity, best practice implementation and outcomes from appointing both internal and external advisory board members for an organisation.

Global Research Council Advisory Boards

The Global Research Council Advisory Boards have been formed as part of the agenda for living research. Collaboration with captains of industry enables advisory board professionals to be at the leading edge of thinking about the ‘future state’. Within the Advisory Board Centre community, advisory boards, special interest groups and forums are keeping advisory board practitioners up-to-date, current and deeply engaged with what matters most – the future.

Committees & Boards

The Advisory Board Centre harnesses the collective experience and insight of professionals to collaborate on research, strategic initiatives and market engagement. All of our advisory panels, committees, boards and think tanks are built on the ABF101 Advisory Best Practice Framework™ as a foundation and are contextualised to meet the specific need.

The Advisory Board Centre acknowledges the contribution of the committee and board members to strengthen and professionalise the advisory sector.

Best Practice & Ethics Advisory Board

The Best Practice & Ethics Advisory Board Charter is to independently emerging trends and provide feedback of the ABF101 Advisory Board Best Practice Framework™ and the Code of Ethics guidelines.