5-10 Year Planning Horizon

Mega Issues

Mega issues are issues of strategic importance, which represent choices the organization will need to make in defining the ultimate direction of its long-range plan. These issues represent potential impediments to achievement of the Envisioned Future, and form a basis for dialogue about the choices facing the organization. These questions can serve as an ongoing "menu" of strategic issues that, using a knowledge-based approach in gathering insights relative to AAPG's strategic position and directional choices for each of the issues, can be used by the Board to create regular opportunities for strategic dialogue about the issues facing the industry.

Mega-Issue Questions

1. How does AAPG engage early career professionals so that they retain their membership?
2. How does AAPG get more people to join our profession?
3. Should the AAPG consider merging with other sister societies?
4. How will this organization balance the declining interest in petroleum geosciences of N. America students with the increasing global demand for energy?
5. How will AAPG address the increasing interest in alternative non-fossil energy technologies?
6. How can AAPG be more effective in improving the involvement of underrepresented groups in N. America in the geoscience profession?
7. How can AAPG expand endowments?
8. How can AAPG assist in changing the public's perception of the oil industry?
9. How can AAPG use our divisions more effectively?
10. How can AAPG increase visibility/recognition at geoscience universities worldwide?
11. How can AAPG truly become a global geoscience organization?
12. How does AAPG engage and retain new professionals?
13. How does AAPG retain semi-retired professionals in our association?
14. How should AAPG better disseminate energy-related research and knowledge to our members and the public?
15. How can AAPG encourage increased membership participation in the work of the association?
16. How does AAPG bring the issues of sustainable resource exploration and development into K-12 and undergraduate and graduate classrooms and research?
17. What can AAPG do to bring better science to federal environmental and land management so as to facilitate appropriate energy development?
18. What can AAPG do to lead all of the energy profession to a coordinated and funded public outreach program?
19. How does AAPG maximize the availability of information and data to members in a timely and cost-effective manner?
20. How can AAPG assist members with personal career development through out the career spectrum?
21. How does AAPG create a small annual surplus?
22. Is Tulsa the best place for AAPG headquarters?
23. How does AAPG get management "buy-in" to the Association so as to allow more geoscientists to publish their work and to serve the Association?
24. How can research be publicized and disseminated?
25. How can AAPG leadership better represent the future organization?
26. How can AAPG positively affect employment opportunities for its members?