Final Presentation To IPGRI
Today I delivered a final presentation to a large group representing IPGRI stakeholders in publishing, editorial, design, library, research, IT and marketing departments.
The presentation summarized all of the steps taken during this project and how IKONOS had arrived at the preparation of the three final reports (Action Plan, Project Brief and Technology Evaluation).
I introduced and explained the importance of the three final reports and provided some specific recommendations on how to porceed with the project.
These included:
- Keep the ball rolling
Take advantage of the high involvement of many staff members and key stakeholders to make this project move forward. - Enable an ongoing grassroots communication progress and sustain it
Enable an individual (or more in turns) to carry forward the project
Let one out of the several voluntary staff members that have shown high interest in the progress of this project, take over a weekly email reporting of the progress made and the key agenda items to be addressed. - Allow some initial upgrading, revisions and improvement to the present web site to start taking place. Leverage the good will of the many IPGRI staff involved and allow a small committee to take a sustained improvement process on the existing site. Carefully dose this parallel focus as not to drain key energies and resources from the main strategic plan.
Next steps:
A number of steps can be immediately taken to move the project forward. Some of these may be started in parallel, depending on the number of internal and external resources devoted to each. Initial steps that can eb immediately moved forward are:
a) Project Brief refinement
b) Comparative Analysis
c) Log Analysis (analysis of site traffic through server log files)
d) Editorial Team and Strategy definition
Luigi Canali De Rossi