Strategic Ideation - 1

Pod 1: dc, yj, uv
Focus area: GET PAID!

Brief

With your pod, generate a list of possible goals and strategic initiatives within your assigned focus area - incorporating the trends and surfaced themes

Come up with 5+ ideas in 20 minutes

Ideation Area…

• Publishing our work more
  • (dc: we've had positives from this)
  • yurko: valuing yourself and you'll get more work
• Value ourselves accurately/appropriately:
  • Scan for rates among our collaborators/cooperators

• Find ways to make money doing mission driven work
• Long term: circulate money within our solidarity economy and hope that it comes back to us also
• Invest in developing ourselves as a coop developer (pcc etc.)
• Pitch on end-to-end projects (e.g., that might be more design/dev focused) that have a small infra component
• Access stupid neolib money - pitch ourselves as responsible tech company, build on qm work
• Pitch ourselves into the community scene: mesh bike trailer flags and being at street festivals
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  – sow the seeds for later projects
• Communities:
  • Just Transition
  • Housing Affordability – ACORN
  • Courage Coalition
• Remote work strategies
• Follow the money! Pay attention to gov money

APPDENDIX: Ideation Toolkit

Example goal: Collaborate with Great Lakes Region Coops.
Example strategic initiative: Host a meet and greet with other cooperatives in the Great Lakes region to discuss possibilities of collaboration and ways we can support each other.

Trends

Trend 1: Growing adoption of digital technology; cost and tech literacy are barriers
Trend 2: Canadians are concerned about their security and privacy
Trend 3: Declining trust in most tech companies
Trend 4: Feelings of vulnerability and social inequity driving Canadians toward coop models
Trend 5: Desire to secure worker's rights and livelihoods as we transition to post-carbon/sustainable economies
COVID-19 + Protests agains Police Brutality: What will be the long term effects? How can we help?

Hypha AGM Themes

• Secure more projects
• Do more infra client work
• Showcase and publish our work
• More financial control and better tracking
• Find budget to invest in meaningful ways
• Be neighbourly on the DWeb
• Build with other coops
• Collaborate more as a team
• Respond to the needs of our community during crisis
• Demonstrate our committment to our values

Goals and Initiatives

• Hiring and HR - individuals and skills we want to grow with
• Workflow and processes - streamlining our work
• Infrastructure - tools, automations, our virtual office
• Partnerships and collaborators
• Service and product offerings
• Budgeting and tracking
• Investments
• Personal development and learning