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Public Report on Community Dashboard led by openBEAM.net

Last modified: October 04, 2015

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I am aware that the various anchor initiatives in Rochester have similar goals and that the organizations/teams driving these initiatives have great intention to collaborate. I am also familiar with the difficulty of teaming and collaboration. That's why alignment of goals, indicators, strategies and measurements is highly valued in best-practices such as Lean 6 Sigma. While leaders of the various organizations and projects have publicly declared their commitment and intentions to collaborate and to align goals, efforts and measurements. Beyond the rhetoric, where is the "beef"?

I am aware that various anchor initiatives (DMC, J2G, CHNA, Housing, Transportation) in Rochester have similar goals and that the organizations/teams driving these initiatives have great intention to collaborate. I am also familiar with the difficulty of teaming and collaboration. That's why alignment of goals, indicators, strategies and measurements is highly valued in best-practices such as Lean 6 Sigma. While leaders of the various organizations and projects have publicly declared their commitment and intentions to collaborate and to align goals, efforts and measurements.

Beyond the rhetoric, where is the "beef"?

A credible confirmation of this is for these leaders to agree on a common set of measurements. What are the "Top 5" metrics that we are committed to monitor as indicators that the initiatives/programs/projects are making progress towards stated DMC goals?

While goals like Livable City, Health & Wellness, Learning Environment expressed in early DMC concept briefings are perhaps nebulous and subject to debating as to what indicators are meaningful to reflect their progress, indicators such as job growth (at least 35,000 new jobs) and increased tax revenue ($7 billion) are obvious.

The question is then how are we measuring these clear-cut indicators? What is the base-line?

Wouldn't it be nice to have a community dashboard to show the "Job" and "Revenue" trends? And other indicators could be "Affordable Housing", "Transportation".

The September 23 CNG meeting with Minnesota Compass is a good start. The necessary next step is to have buy-in and active sponsor ship from community leaders. MN Compass have organizations like 3M Foundation, Bush Foundation, etc. fund their effort and lend support and legitimacy. And they had conveners for various advisory groups such as Eduction: Alice Segren, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Education, Housing: Time Marx, Commissioner, Minnesota Housing.

To make it real for Rochester, we need to find local sponsorships and conveners of equivalent stature and community standing. That is above my pay grid.

In the meantime, I will continue to work my "home-brewed" dashboard.

Impact Levels

Impact Lvl 1:

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Project Phase Definitions

The following defines the various project phases:

Available - a product, program or service is in production
Develop - program or application is being developed
Plan - idea is solid, stakeholders are identified, and there is strong commitment to go forward from all parties.
Concept Phase - idea scoped out with enough details to give an early sizing and/or to build a proof of concept
demonstration
Pre-concept Phase - an early idea or a requirement.

About Beam

Community Beam (dmcbeam.org) is a registry of private and public resources (organizations, projects, initiatives, programs) that underpin economic and social developments of greater Rochester:

For the commercial sector, we tend to register startup activities (new companies and new commercial projects) that bring diversification and high-impact opportunities to the area.
For the non-profit sector, we wish to shine light on all the organizations and services that otherwise labor under relative obscurity.
Our hope is that dmcbeam.org will encourage cross-sector collaborations and creative solutions.

While there are a number of registries in the community, dmcbeam.org's distinct value is to pilot a database with a data structure and categorizations that answer the questions such as: What organizations or projects/programs in our community that have purported relevance with some of the over-arching focuses put forward by initiatives such as DMC, J2G and Health Improvements?

This database could be used as one of the ways to explore the capacities of the community. If you are someone on an exploratory journey to learn about the greater Rochester community. dmcbeam.org could be an interesting first step.

Links to Beam sub-sites

Sample of Beam sub-sites: