Organizational strength

Ensure organizational sustainability and financial security.

ADLM maintains an operating model that reflects the intersection of three circles: what ADLM is uniquely capable of doing, what advances the mission, and what best drives the organization’s economic and resource engine.

OBJECTIVE: Achieve organizational and financial security to withstand economic disruption and invest in the maintenance, growth, and expansion of activities that create value to our members and customers.

  • STRATEGY: Engage appropriate outside expertise to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the association’s business model and program impact, identifying areas of both short-term and long-term opportunity.
  • STRATEGY: Establish and initiate a plan for business development and revenue diversification.

OBJECTIVE: Leverage the opportunities of brand repositioning.

  • STRATEGY: Expand audience reach to be more inclusive across all laboratory medicine specialties and lab-adjacent professionals.
  • STRATEGY: Monitor engagement levels by specialty and by member/non-member status, particularly within identified key priority, lab-adjacent fields in order to increase market penetration.

OBJECTIVE: Ensure ADLM remains the home for the clinical chemistry community.

  • STRATEGY: Maintain and improve the quality and visibility of existing keystone programs in support of the clinical laboratory professional (e.g.; membership, annual meeting, journals, member engagement opportunities, education, CLN, etc.).
  • STRATEGY: Optimize opportunities and visibility for point-of-care testing professionals.
  • STRATEGY: Expand leadership opportunities within ADLM for clinical laboratory scientists.

OBJECTIVE: Increase collaborations with organizations with shared interests to expand impact and broaden recognition of ADLM as the hub for data science activities in the laboratory medicine field.

  • STRATEGY: Seek partnership, co-branding, and other collaborative approaches to expand the ADLM portfolio where existing programs relevant and complementary to ADLM’s mission already exist within other organizations.

OBJECTIVE: Continue to implement internal technology, adapt processes, and develop human resources to support organizational sustainability and growth.

  • STRATEGY: Complete current comprehensive technology/business processes assessment and translate into multi-year, sustained program of technology infrastructure improvements.
  • STRATEGY: Continue and sustain current staff recruitment, retention, development and engagement programs.