Please describe your proposed solution.
Catalyst GPS collaborative strategy framework for Blockchain4good includes:
- Clarifying the Identity: Purpose, Dream and Values.
- Setting Strategic Themes: 3-5 chosen strategic focus areas that, when combined, realize the Dream.
- Understanding and potentially re-wording Functional Perspectives that structure and harmonize our work on different levels.
- Introducing a process to set Objectives: measurable, time-bound and achievable outcomes, that are found in the crossroads of themes and perspectives.
- Brainstorming example Initiatives that could help achieve the objectives.
- Outlining Roles and Responsibilities required to execute the strategy.
- Guides and Templates to engage leaders across the communities.
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
The Challenge question is: “How can we make Cardano the go-to choice for building DAOs? What tools can we provide to enable effective DAO's Creation & Operation” More specifically, this proposal addresses the need for “Effective Collaboration Management Platforms to Organize Community Intentions and Actions”.
Blockchain4good attracts projects that aim for both impact and financial sustainability, contributing to the UN Social Development Goals. The idea of the collective is to enable its members to have a bigger impact together than what they could have alone. Together the members can take on challenges that alone would be impossible to tackle. What makes this situation tricky is that there is no Blockchain4good community per se but the alliance is composed of the member organizations’ own interlinked communities and key stakeholders. This wide reach and multitude of identities makes it a real challenge to effectively organize the larger entity. Collaboration only becomes possible when there is comprehension of our common purpose, dream and values as well as communication of our common strategic direction and coordination of our actions.
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
Buy-in from our members:
- We need to make sure our solutions are attractive to all our members and their respective communities. It is important to have each of those communities engaged throughout the whole process. This takes time but their input and feedback will prove invaluable.
Alignment
- Imagining a collaboration of seven or more companies may seem difficult. Some might think that because of their natural differences, different companies will never find common ground, that they will always debate each part of the framework at length and fail to find a point of agreement. However, this risk will be greatly mitigated by the goal that all B4G members already share: to combat some of the most pressing social, financial and environmental challenges. This commonality ensures that members will always find common ground, enriched by the diversity of views, as they all seek the best solutions to these challenges, often based on compelling scientific or institutional evidence.
Cross-Chain nature:
- The solutions we offer and the model that we build shouldn’t feel too “Cardanoish”. The collective aims to be blockchain agnostic so the model should appeal to other blockchain communities, feel interoprable with their methodolgies, while still highlighting the value of Cardano approach. If done correctly this can act as a poster child for the Cardano approach.
Competing calendar bookings
- Fitting the schedules of 7+ organizations together is a daunting task. We prepare for this by providing an initial schedule well in advance and by appointing two people per member organization to be part of the strategy process. We have reserved four months for the entire process. That should be sufficient to accommodate even a delay or two.