The Strategic Issues Group (SIG) Session can be described as an outside board of advisors. Each APPEX Partner is assigned to a SIG with up to 10 non-competing agencies and 2 facilitators. Agency owners who participate in the SIG share operating strategies in order to expand thinking, break paradigms and maximize learning from each other. The SIG is a think tank group, which is strategic in orientation and serves as a core peer group within which information can be exchanged, accountability implemented and improvement mandated.