Good evening board
I notice Sachiko and JW from Chelgate are in CC. Is Chelgate going to help manage the launch?
Graham Taylor wrote:
I see it slightly differently only in whats outstanding. what makes a slight difference is that since we are now announcing the formal 3 month trial, that gives us a little more time to finalise some (but not all) of the detail. I think we have to have for 'launch'
- A working website - from which companies can find info and make
applications. 2. The dynamic application process - since weneed to be trialling this as much as the questions/scoring. 3. All the docn complete. 4. The core,legal, and governance in place 5. Sign Up plan - pre and post launch 6. Launch plan inc sufficient quotes of support.
Sounds reasonable.
Taking each in turn. 1 Website - needs refreshing, particularly with words/descriptions. Sugggest GT and SC review and conf call with Rod to update. First call by end this week, complete by 5 Oct?
Yes. It can be done. GT and SC will need to brainstorm a little to work out what we need to do. We can cover this in the conference call which I assume will happen this week (see end of email).
- Application Process. Rod is in Italy today/tomorrow with Reflab (
hopefully to resolve the issues/communication gaps) so I hope he will be able to have a definite completion date in which we have confidence in. Rod to report back asap.
Excellent. We do need a time-scale on this. This is critical.
3.The princ of Op still needs updating Shane/bob and Rod have updated the T+Cs but we need to update the words, and include a section describing trial prcoess inc the MOU drafted by Georg.
The most current Principles of Operation (PoO hereafter) are attached to this email.
Graham, can you clarify: 1) What words do we need to update? In PoO or in the T+C? Bit confused. 2) Do you want the description of trail processes with MoU from Georg to go into PoO?
- Legal/Governance. On legal the two areas I am aware of outstanding is
bank account (Bob - status?), and liability Insurance. On latter I know Bob needs final copy of Op Principles (above). On Governance I suggest one outstanding item is to establish the CO Council , and at least have first names agreed. can we dust off the previous list of suggested names and review who still appropriate, and prioritise.
OK, sounds like we need to get the PoO ready ASAP. Graham, I can work with you to get a deliverable on this. Alternatively, if you delegate to Bob, then Bob and I can get it done. We should have this by 5th October as well.
- Sign Ups. As soon as we have above we should start pre announcing,
both to sign up local/national partners, first user, suppliers and gain enough quotes for a critical mass. for the launch. we then need a longer list of target contacts and programme who will approach.
OK.
- Launch Plan. When, where, how , who to? The original plan was
Brussels but time has moved on and we have made a number of early announcements. we now need to go hard.To me it looks like we should target w/b 22nd or 29th October? Do we need a press launch ( as in press conference ), do we do a 'paper' launch with target journalists/interviews, or can we use an existing event? Georg suggested the IGF ( in Rio?). My personal thoughts but comments are we go for a paper lauunch, backed up by a small number of target interviews, backed up events like Rio. One of these could be a Briefing in Brussels the evening of 7th November ( IDABC Pegsco meeting is on the 8th). Thoughts?
Paper launch supplemented with some briefings in London and Brussels sounds like the minimal we should do. Perhaps Sachiko and her colleague from Chelgate could lend some thoughts regarding this?
In essence I agree fully with Graham's assertion earlier in the email that we need to push this as hard as possible because we've had a number of pre-announcements.
Proviso: we need to have the trail period mapped and clear, to ensure that if there are mistakes in the framework they will not undermine the credibility of the initiative itself.
Suggest we have a conf call to discuss and agree. when is good for everyone?
I have availability this week as I am in the office. Thursday is a bit full until after 14:00.
Shane