Dear all,
please find enclosed a new paper on IFIP's strategy: "The new IFIP".
If you want to comment then please do it to me and/or to Basie von Solms basie@rau.ac.za. Deadline: End of April.
Best regards Otto
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Dear TC Chairs
As you remember, you were asked to complete some questionnaire about a future IFIP Strategy, sent to you by Leon and myself. Furthermore we had extensive discussions about this aspect during the TC dinner and during Council. There was a general feeling that the document produced by the Strategy meeting in London in Dec 2005, was not comprehensive (and novel) enough. TA therefore decided that TA will create a further document, based on the results of the questionnaire, and the discussions, which will then be submitted to the June 2006 meeting of the Strategy committee. Leon and myself undertook to do this. Leon was however snowed under by WCC 2006, WITFOR and other IFIP activities, so I carried on with the process.
I used the inputs from the questionnaire and discussions to draft the attached document. Leon has provided some comments which helped. Again, if you do not like the content, blame me, and not Leon, because he went with the attached version, but does stil have some reservations. Nevertheless the 2 of us agreed to circulate this version.
Please study the document, and provide comments - it may seem a little 'blue sky' for some, but I have no doubt that IFIP must change dramatically - this document is an effort to move in that direction.
On Leon's advice, I will draft a second document, covering all the tactical/operational aspects mentioned in your replies. That will be a second document submitted to the Strategy meeting in June, because we did not want these operational and tactical aspects to 'contaminate' the more strategic direction of the attached document. This second document will be circulated later.
The attached one is however the most important, and I hope we can use it as a basis to move to a new strategy agreed on by all TC Chairs which we can submit in June.
Can I please have your comments/inputs/reservations/critisism/whatever by 24 April. I will then consolidate, and resend. I want to submit our final version by middle May.
Regards
Basie
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Otto Spaniol wrote:
Dear all,
please find enclosed a new paper on IFIP's strategy: "The new IFIP".
If you want to comment then please do it to me and/or to Basie von Solms basie@rau.ac.za. Deadline: End of April.
Best regards Otto
Otto and colleagues, perhaps I "got out on the wrong side of my bed this morning" but the document seems very far fetched to me. Perhaps there are resources in IFIP that I have never run into during my many years of involvement with IFIP but who is going to perform all the services proposed? I cannot believe that hiring a manager a "Marketing Manager/Stakeholder Manager" will solve our problems!
Looking forward to a better day, Harry