Subject: Musical Dispatch from the Front- Container for Change – March 2019

Hi Folks,

Tomorrow I shift to my long service leave “shed”. It is a converted container, thus when the following fell off the back of a truck I immediately dubbed my new office the “Container for Change”.

David Bowie 1973- Changes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQ0Ryy01yE

To protect the innocent and the guilty, I have made some changes to this doozy.

“We adopted a modern Collective Impact approach being the ‘Back bone & Container for Change’ through which ‘Continuous Communication & Community Engagement’ supports the identification and articulation of a ‘Common Agenda & Community Aspiration’ and encourages ‘Mutually reinforcing & High Leverage Activities’ and ‘Shared Measurement & Strategic Learning’ across all service providers.

• Common Agenda & Community Aspiration
  • A community led vision of a better future

• Back Bone & Container for Change–
  • A team or individuals that mobilise stakeholders, demonstrate leadership, cultivate trust and empathy, facilitate change and sustain the process.

• Shared Measurement & Strategic Learning
  • A learning and evaluation process that provides real time feedback and robust processes for sense making and decision making.

• Continuous Communication & Community Engagement –
  • authentic and inclusive involvement of a broad spectrum of stakeholders, particularly those most affected

• Mutually Reinforcing & High Leverage Activities
  • Both mutual and independent activities that are adaptable, enable innovation and provide opportunities for change.

Integrated Services are using the collaborative change cycle developed by Collaboration for Impact to monitor and inform progress toward service integration.

The Collaborative Change Cycle articulates the phases and stages of an effective collaborative change process. The Cycle is both a descriptive guide and a planning tool that identifies the clear milestones for working collaboratively with complexity. Importantly, the Cycle integrates the core disciplines and skills required to make progress at each phase and stage, being:

• Leadership practice
• Collaborative design
• Community engagement
• Data and measurement

The Collaborative Change Cycle- a reinvention of the wheel if you ask me. But I’ll refrain from further comment. I won’t deprive you of the pleasure of making your own comments.

And no, this isn’t from the TV Series ‘Utopia’. This is fair dinkum, hot off the press.

It might be a while for me to reestablish email contact. But I’ll be back.

Please note my changed email address

Chau,

Frank

PS- can’t help myself- “robust processes for sense making”

El sentido comun, es el menos comun de todos los sentidos (Common sense is the least common of all the senses)