Thought Leadership
Daily tasks often detract from the big picture, forcing organizations to focus on immediate needs and not 
on the overall project. When an organization lacks this broad perspective, it can result in missing out on opportunities and innovations that could potentially lead the organization to the forefront of its industry. Across private and public sectors, managers and directors need to understand the role their organization can play in making necessary and innovative changes within their working environment, as well as the greater social community. Organizations have the ability to affect social behavioral change and dream up methodologies, products, and services that could dramatically impact their target audience or market.
From quantitative sector analysis to a qualitative understanding of social dynamics, Thought Leadership is the process of understanding and communicating the impact that an entity can have on the world. Beyond rhetoric and marketing strategies, Thought Leadership sheds light on the direction one should take to maximize impact and provides cutting-edge feedback to existing best-practices, industry standards and academic theory. Alexius has leveraged the concepts of Thought Leadership in an effort to pioneer new industries, restructure practices of public and private sectors, deploy high-impact social programs on a national scale, shift institutional paradigms to increase impact, and create new work methodologies and processes saving overhead costs.
Specific examples of projects in which Alexius has done this are:
- ADA & ICT Sector Positioning
- This project helped strengthen the Armenian Development Agency through positioning the technology sector as a key catalyst in Armenia's economic growth and improving institutional functions.
- ICT Assessment & Master Strategy
- Overview of ICT Assessment and resulting Master Strategy in Armenia.
- IT Enterprise Incubator
- Alexius helped develop an IT incubator for Armenia in order to increase economic development.
- Last Mile Initiative
- Overview of LMI.
- LMI Colombia
- Alexius helped expand telecommunications access into rural Colombia, which helps institutionalize democracy and involve people in the nation's economy.
- LMI Ecuador
- Alexius partnered with USAID to deploy a high speed Internet connectivity through the Credit Union network in order to service rural communities.
- LMI Guatemala
- In this project, Alexius created the Oportunet brand, under which micro-telcos operate. Through this, rural communities gained access to telecommunications, which then delivered new social and economic opportunities to those communities.
- LMI Paraguay
- LMI-Paraguay provided internet access to 100 organizations throughout Paraguay, before the private sector brought internet access to them, in order to help them learn how to maximize the community benefits of internet access.
- LMI Peru
- Alexius and partners deployed one of the first micro-telcos in Peru, giving various organizations internet access. After seeing the vast development potential, the Peruvian government allocated more funds to create more micro-telcos in rural areas.
- Micro-Telco in a Box
- An integrated kit composed of basic telecommunication hardware and a set of Open Source applications and platforms.
- Open Source Centro-America
- Alexius helped set up a regional partnership to increase awareness of open source software and create a forum on management and technology.
