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Last modified: October 04, 2015
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I am aware that the various anchor initiatives in Rochester have similar goals and that the organizations/teams driving these initiatives have great intention to collaborate. I am also familiar with the difficulty of teaming and collaboration. That's why alignment of goals, indicators, strategies and measurements is highly valued in best-practices such as Lean 6 Sigma. While leaders of the various organizations and projects have publicly declared their commitment and intentions to collaborate and to align goals, efforts and measurements. Beyond the rhetoric, where is the "beef"?
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Community dashboard gaining momentum but ..
I am aware that various anchor initiatives (DMC, J2G, CHNA, Housing, Transportation) in Rochester have similar goals and that the organizations/teams driving these initiatives have great intention to collaborate. I am also familiar with the difficulty of teaming and collaboration. That's why alignment of goals, indicators, strategies and measurements is highly valued in best-practices such as Lean 6 Sigma. While leaders of the various organizations and projects have publicly declared their commitment and intentions to collaborate and to align goals, efforts and measurements.
Beyond the rhetoric, where is the "beef"?
A credible confirmation of this is for these leaders to agree on a common set of measurements. What are the "Top 5" metrics that we are committed to monitor as indicators that the initiatives/programs/projects are making progress towards stated DMC goals?
While goals like Livable City, Health & Wellness, Learning Environment expressed in early DMC concept briefings are perhaps nebulous and subject to debating as to what indicators are meaningful to reflect their progress, indicators such as job growth (at least 35,000 new jobs) and increased tax revenue ($7 billion) are obvious.
The question is then how are we measuring these clear-cut indicators? What is the base-line?
Wouldn't it be nice to have a community dashboard to show the "Job" and "Revenue" trends? And other indicators could be "Affordable Housing", "Transportation".
The September 23 CNG meeting with Minnesota Compass is a good start. The necessary next step is to have buy-in and active sponsor ship from community leaders. MN Compass have organizations like 3M Foundation, Bush Foundation, etc. fund their effort and lend support and legitimacy. And they had conveners for various advisory groups such as Eduction: Alice Segren, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Education, Housing: Time Marx, Commissioner, Minnesota Housing.
To make it real for Rochester, we need to find local sponsorships and conveners of equivalent stature and community standing. That is above my pay grid.
In the meantime, I will continue to work my "home-brewed" dashboard.
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Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : March 10, 2024 : DMC Dashboard Metrics Portal
Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : April 27, 2021 : Minnesota Compass
Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : May 08, 2018 : CNG Steering Committee working on 2018 Compass Points
Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : October 30, 2016 : CNG Releases Compass Points 2016, City of Rochester and Olmsted County
Project Report of Community Dashboard : May 21, 2016 : Community Beam presentations
Project Report of Maintain and Evolve the 2016 Rochester/Olmsted County Compass Points (Community Dashboard) : February 24, 2016 : Community Dashboard - CNG coodintating funding request to build Community Dashboard.
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