Community Dashboard

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: openBEAM.net

Contact: Al Lun ; Email: kalun@middlewaygroup.com ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Community Networking Group (CNG) ; Diversity Council ; In the City for Good Steering Committee ; Kiwanis Club of Rochester ; OpenBeam ; Rochester Area Family Y

Potential Collaborators: Olmstead County Information Technology Solutions ; Olmsted County Public Health Services

Related Projects

America's City for Health ; COVID-19 Info Sharing App ; DMC Dashboard ; DMC Transportation: Parking ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; Education, Health and Recreation Space (DMC UMR/Rec sub-district) ; Equity in the Built Environment (Bloomberg) ; Expanding Career and Technical Education Center (C-TECH) Reach ; Global Technovation Challenge ; Intercultural Center, Rochester (Creating a 21st Century Community Space) ; Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) ; OpenBeam Activating Technologies Project ; P-TECH 535

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Best Practice

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Best Practice, Business Process, Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, OpenBeam, Technology Enablement

Level 2: Business Process, Technology Enablement

DMC Impacts:

Technology

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Tooling, Featured  

Implement for the Rochester area a "Community Dashboard" as depicted in the following conceptual diagram.  

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"?

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