We-Community Organisation and Key Concepts ©Rob Hayles We-CommunityWe-Community & We-(xxx) brand and the We-Community “jigsaw flower” belong to Rob Hayles.

We-Community

Organisation and Key Concepts

©Rob Hayles We-Community We-Community & We-(xxx) brand and the We-Community “jigsaw flower” belong to Rob Hayles

Organisation

We-Community

We-Build

We-Cycle

We-walk

We-Jog

We-House

We-Think

We-Train

We-Research

We-GardenWe-Live

We-Work We-Produce

We-News

We-Entertain

We-Art

We-Music

We-Craft

We-Strategy

We-Enable

We-Promote

We-Protect

Umbrella Community

Interest Company

Strategy, Development, Marketing & Intellectual

Property

Holistic Areas Projects

Organisational Basics

• All business sectors and projects will be Social Enterprises – primarily Community Interest Companies– a social enterprise is an organisation or project that has primarily social

objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community

• All business sectors and projects will have an umbrella organisation mirrored into the Community

• Primary Ethics– Sustainable (in all areas)– Collaborative– Innovative in all technologies and thinking

Key Terms

• Community– Any group of three or more that have an interaction in any environment.

Common conditions such as intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, experience, work, play may be evident singularly or in any combination.

• Sustainability– The capacity to endure.

• Collaboration– The process where two or more people or organisations work together in

an intersection of common goals• Innovation

– Change in the thought process for doing something, or the useful application of new inventions, methods, experience or discoveries

Definitions used by We-Community

Key Terms

• Stakeholder– A person, group, organisation, or system who affects or can be

affected by an action

• Enabling– Patterns of interaction which allow individuals to develop and grow

• Quality– Fit for the intended purpose

• Value– The relationship between satisfying needs and expectations and the

resources required to achieve them

Key Terms

• Opportunity Cost– the cost related to the next-best choice available to someone who has

picked between several mutually exclusive choices

• Project– A temporary organisation created for the purpose of delivering one or

more agreed products, outputs or impacts

• Output– What can be measured from the actions of a system, process, project

or work

• Impact• The consequences of possible and actual outputs, proposals and

interventions

Key Terms

• Environment– The surroundings of a person, organism, object, idea or system

• Risk– The product of the probability of an event resulting in an adverse or

favourable event, times the severity of the event

• Management– Human action, including design, to facilitate the production of useful

outcomes from a system. People manage things and tasks

• Leadership– Process of influence in which one person can enlist the aid and

support of others in the accomplishment of a common task. People motivating people

Aims

• We-Community will:– Understand the appropriate techniques and methodologies – Enable a group to decide whether it is a community– Help the community to evaluate its sustainability issues and needs– Produce the tools and inform the stakeholders of the resulting

results, issues and tools available– Enable the Community to create a state of collaborative

innovation– Enable the Community to establish Social Enterprises to generate

sustainable impacts– Monitor, review and give ad hoc guidance and help– Provide economies of scale through integration and shared

facilities

Framework

• Sustainability and Organic Growth– We-Community is a generic holistic framework

that allows ideas, systems and methodologies to be researched, implemented, reviewed and adapted sustainably and instigated at the appropriate level

– Based on Prince2 Project Management– Enabling best practice Community Development &

Cohesion and Sustainability

We-Group

The strategic arm of We-Community holds the responsibility for compliance to the aims, legislation and ethics. It is responsible for the Intellectual Property & Sustainability (We-Protect), Marketing (We-Promote) and Enabling (We-Enable) of We-Community and will ensure all of We-Community has common and equal access to assets in a cost-free manner

Key Concepts

Embedded SustainabilityRecognise Project Uniquity

Welcome Uncertainty & RisksReal-Time Stakeholder ManagementEmbedded Collaborative InnovationRe-alignment of Value and Impact

Embedded Sustainability

Profit

Social

Environment

Sustainable

Every action has sustainability at its core; building it in at all stages and is the over-riding principle within the impacts on the environment, society and profit

Project Uniquity

All projects are unique; they share dynamic commonalities in varying amounts that have an impact on each other.

Project

Environment

Experience

Tools

Team

Location

Client

Rules

Customer

Uncertainty & Risk

All projects involve uncertainty and need to be aware of them, understand , measure and review them and react appropriately

Project

Uncertainty • Awareness

• Understanding

• Measuring

• Review & Assess

• ReactionUncertainty brings risks. Risk can have potentially negative and positive impacts on the project and beyond

Stakeholder Management

ProjectStakeholder

A

Stakeholder B

Stakeholder C

Stakeholder D

Stakeholder position, size, impact and relevance changes over time within the project, aligned with the project or outside

Collaborative Innovation

A self-organising Cross-functional network involved in a project or body of work that share responsibilities and impacts for risk, benefit, costs, experience and knowledge gained from their input and output.

Impact

Collaboration

Input

There is a correlation between the small amount of individual collaboration and the increased benefits enjoyed by all.

Current Projects

We-Build• The Project responsible for the interest of and in

the Built Environment– We-Home; the design and provision for rented housing

in the community– We-Cycle; the promotion and advancement of cycling

and cycling facilities in London for the Olympic Games, the Legacy and communities in general

– We-Walk/We-Jog; the promotion and advancement of walking and walking facilities in London for the Olympic Games, the Legacy and communities in general

Current Projects

We-Think• The project responsible for the research,

training and reasoning for all stakeholders– We-Train; the provision of training within We-

Community and for external stakeholders and Social Enterprises

– We-Research; the examination of best practice and current methodologies and innovation

– We-CoIN; the promotion of Collaborative Innovation Networks

Current Projects

We-Entertain• The project responsible for cultural and

community interactions based around the creative industries– We-Art; the promotion and provision of art within

the community– We-Music; the promotion and provision of music

within the community– We-Craft; the promotion and provision of crafts

within the community

Current Projects

We-Garden• The project responsible for creating communal

community gardens designed to:– Create new open spaces– Teach children and non-gardeners– Grow food and produce for members and sale– Enable community cohesion

Current Projects

We-Cycle• The project responsible for providing

community cycling and cycle hubs that allow the hire and use of cycles within and between communities and the provision of places to park cycles, leave goods and belongings, facilities for washing, changing and eating and bringing sustainable transport, training and exercise to all in the community