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Strategic Ideation - 2

Pod 1: bl, gi
Focus area: BE NEIGHBOURLY!

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

  • bl: how do we be neighbourly while getting paid?
  • gi: what does it mean to be neighbourly?
  • gi: what have we done that is neighbourly?
    • covid solidarity
    • covid connect
    • working for c4c for $32.50 an hour
    • aether hourly rate
    • handbook, publicly facing artifacts, sharing our work openly
    • sharing with those who asks about them
    • signalling with the co-op movement, in turn many of those groups engage (e.g. SEIZE, Foodster)
      • we end up spending time engaging and doing free consultation if needed (coordinate learning group with Foodster, digital coaching for CWCF)
      • "sales & marketing" and neighbourly work gets blurred
  • GOAL: Establish what neighbourly means, and the boundaries of what this means in the co-op. Prioritize neighbours
  • GOAL: Understand what is a "neighbourly approach" vs. "sales approach", what are the process and outcomes differences
  • GOAL: Establish practices that empower co-op members to engage in neighbourly activity
  • Types of neighbours:
    • DWeb
    • CivicTech
    • CWCF
    • Meet.coop
    • What are the boundaries of neighbourhood
  • bl: who's a neighbour to you?
    • gi: the geographic communities, Great Lakes Region (CTTO, Foodters)
      • harder to classify DWeb and CWCF (bl: we term those virtual neighbours)
    • bl: is Enspiral and Diglife neighbours? (harder to classify!)
      • there's less in common
      • degrees of neighbours?
      • lack of access to enspiral (transient, we agree in their leadership)
    • gi: educational institutions, esp. locally
      • including george brown blockchain (know folks there)
    • bl: is Qm or Aether a "closer" neighbour? Internet Archive?

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.

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
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