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Discussion about Kantara voting procedures for publications

Brief discussion about publication repositories (a.k.a. 'Why does Kantara insist that we generate a PDF version of our specs?')

Discussion about Leadership Council Objectives for 2018 & how it relates to the overall Kantara mission:

Kantara Initiative Leadership Council Balanced Scorecard 2018

As Kantara Initiative Leadership Council Chair, one of my responsibilities is to ensure that Kantara Groups are functioning and aligned with Kantara’s organizational objectives. To this end, in Summer 2017, I created an initial set of strategic objectives for the Kantara LC using the Balanced Scorecard methodology. This note describes an initial set of strategic objectives for 2018.

From balancedscorecards.com:

The Balanced Scorecard is a management system. It’s a way of looking at your organization that focuses on your big-picture strategic goals. It also helps you choose the right things to measure so that you can reach those goals.

A normal Balanced Scorecard uses four perspectives to measure organization health and progress: Learning & Growth; Internal Business Processes; Customer; Financial. Each perspective has a few strategic objectives for the organization, each objective has a few measurable metrics to track progress.

The Kantara Mission

The Kantara Initiative is the global consortium improving trustworthy use of identity and personal data through innovation, standardization and good practice.

Kantara Leadership Council Perspectives

Scope definition is critical for developing effective balanced scorecards. For Kantara, the balanced scorecard is written with the perspective that the groups, collectively, are the organization whose objectives are being measured.

I have interpreted the four perspectives as:

• Consumers of group outputs (Customer)
• Kantara Member value for money (Financial)
• Administrative/Internal processes (Internal business processes)
• Aggregate participant capabilities &Knowledge base(Learning & Growth)

Kantara Leadership Council Objectives

To start the discussion, I have developed 3 objectives per perspective. Once the LC has discussed and refined these objectives, we can move to define Measures and start regular reporting.

The Perspectives and their Objectives are:

• Consumers of group outputs
  • Increase Kantara Member and non-Member awareness of Kantara Publications and Programs
  • Increase non-Kantara usage and citation of Kantara publications
  • Increase breadth of participation in publication creation
• Kantara Member value for money
  • Increase the value that Kantara Members perceive of the network effect of being a Kantara member
  • Increase the number of Member products and services that are directly supported by Kantara publications and programs
  • Increase Member’s desire to associate with the Kantara brand
• Administrative/Internal processes
  • Decrease the level of Group leadership effort required for Group operations and Publication process
  • Decrease elapsed time to execute regular processes
  • Increase engagement between Group leadership and the Kantara Board & Organization
• Aggregate participant capabilities &Knowledge base
  • Increase completeness of publication suite for high-visibility knowledge domains
  • Increase relevance of new and existing projects and publications
  • Increase focus on interoperability as a primary driver for specifications