Expert: Get your strategy typology, organizational behaviors straight to maximize technology

The ways in which nonprofit organizations utilize technology in their operations can vary widely. And, it turns out, the level of success they have in putting technology to work depends on many factors—not the least of which is the organization's “strategy typology,” or the basic structure and processes it uses to do what it does in its sector; how it plans and makes decisions; and its level of maturity in a host of “organizational behaviors,” according to Kelly Trusty, an assistant professor of nonprofit administration at the Western Michigan University School of Public Affairs and Administration.