Consultative stakeholder workshop

After emailing our project plan to Scott and Sharon at RMSAS, now we can get on with organising a workshop for our project stakeholders on 15th September 2009 between 9.00-14.00 at Knowledge House HQ so that we could:

• Understand process boundaries between FE and HE partners and regional stakeholders such as the regional RDA One North East (ONE) and Business Link
• Capture perceptions, issues and priorities of all stakeholders.

The outputs from the workshop will help us understand the current picture in Business and Community Engagement (BCE) so that we can confirm future activities and make recommendations in order to formulate the way forward for a Collaborative Business and Community Engagement and Partner Relationship Management (PRM).

The workshop will include presentations and a facilitated interactive exercise to capture perceptions from workshop participants.

Bring it on!

Meeting with KSA Partnership

Martin Haywood of KSA Partnership is coming up to Knowledge House on 13th August . Martin gave a good general insight and overview to the involvement of KSA in the BCE CRM during the Relationship Management Event in Birmingham. The report that they published for JISC was also a useful resource so surely Martin will provide some good input to our discussions regarding the stakeholders workshop too.

Project plan

As requested by Sharon, we have emailed our draft project plan to Scott today. I hope it doesn't require major changes.

We are on Twitter!

We are on Twitter as KHouseUK. Still trying to get used to it and just 3 tweets so far.

Things to remember from the JISC Relationship Management Conference

In a nutshell, it was an excellent event at a great venue and thanks to all involved in organising it and of course the presenters and participants for making the effort to be there! The contents of the days were really useful and relevant to the projects and the opportunity to share experiences was the jewel on the crown.

Summary points:

• It is all about creating synthesis, building up capacity and enabling take up.
• Neverthless, look before you leap!
• Identify and analyse the stakeholders and then involve them in the process.
• Ask others and share your experience to learn more.
• Get on and use Twitter and other useful sites as much as you can.
• Relationship Management is not just software or technology so beware!

Good luck and let's make it happen!