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OpenBeam: A "For Purpose" Enterprise

Exploring the building out of Open Beam as a "For-Purpose" entity to support community initiatives. Many social/economical development initiatives suffer from vertical organizational structures that have their origin in the industrial age of emphasizing command and control. Vertical structures are silo in nature and do not facilitate cross structural information sharing and individual accountability. They inadvertently create distrust and thwart innovation. This project builds out the Open Beam entity to demonstrate how a “For-Purpose” dynamic organization works. The result is that Open Beam’s way of doing work becomes a proof point that we should let go of the traditional organizational model and adopt a holacratic framework to mobilize team effort. In so doing, Open Beam will help area non-profit or small organizations become more effective in their governance and their use of cloud technologies.

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Project Impact(s): Best Practice, Business Process, Entrepreneurship, OpenBeam, Pandemic, Technology Enablement

This project is in Develop Phase.

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

 

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: openBeam.net

Contact: Erik Lundquist, Al Lun ; Email: kalun@openbeam.net ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: Asian Media Access ; Chinese American Chamber of Commerce MN ; Coalition of Asian-American Leaders (CAAL) ; Council For US-China Medical Technology Exchanges ; Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans (CAPM) ; Encode ; OpenBeam

Potential Collaborators: Community Mobilization Resource Coalition (CMRC) ; Diversity Council ; Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC)

Related Projects

America's City for Health ; Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Usage Enablement ; Next Gen Community Information Sharing System (CISS) ; Non-profit Consortium Buildout ; PlanScape: define a common way of classifying community projects, plans and assets ; Police Assisted Recovery (PAR Program) ; Project HEALINGS of MN

Impacts 

Major Impact:  OpenBeam

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Best Practice, Business Process, Entrepreneurship, OpenBeam, Pandemic, Technology Enablement

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Planning, Special  

 

 

 

Strategy

Define and elaborate on the Purpose of Open Beam

 

Review the Quick Guide:

Get educated on Holacracy

Tom Tomison

 

 

Brian J. Robertson

More about Holacracy

 

 

Invite liked-minded partners

 

Build deliverables

 

 

 

 

Expected Results

A concrete business plan in place.

 

 

Metrics
Unknown

 


 

Last modified by allnode on 2023/06/19
Created by allnode on 2018/10/18

 

 

 

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  4. Concept Phase - idea scoped out with enough details to give an early sizing and/or to build a proof of concept
    demonstration
  5. 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.

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