Collaboration Start-up
- Program concept & advocacy
- Identify and recruit partners
- Negotiate partner agreements on goals & sharing of tasks/resources/rights
- Design organizational governance and workflow
- Cultivate collaborative attitudes and norms
- Orchestrate effective planning
Legal Foundations
- Draft and negotiate legal agreements
- Allocate sharing of intellectual property rights among partners
- Evaluate options for legal structures to support collaboration
- Form necessary legal entities (i.e., incorporate)
- Research issues & liabilities associated with collaborative venture & business plans
Strategy / Advocacy
- Identify and motivate sponsors
- Create strategic messages to team or external parties
- Manage communications
Group Process
- Design effective group sessions
- Facilitate group interactions - telecoms, web meetings, in-person meetings
- Use Dialog Mapping technique to record collective deliberations
- Report and document work status
- Hub for team communications and interactions
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Event & Meeting Management
- Plan meetings and events
- Handle all meeting arrangements & logistics for large and small events
- Provide on-site event support
- Communicate with participants and act as point of contact for information & assistance
Structured Knowledge Exchange (Web-based Collaboration)
- Assist team in developing practices, protocols and governance to support knowledge sharing
- Advise team on best collaboration tools
- Host and configure commercial web-based collaboration tool
- Provide services on AmTech proprietary software
- Develop customized software solutions
- Train users on tools & group practices
- Design, host, & maintain websites
Contracts, Financial, & Business Administration
- Administer contracts and financial transactions in support of collaborative venture
- Track and report on venture financial transactions
- Develop budgets and projections
- Convene & guide organizational meetings
- Record keeping and compliance (legal / audit)
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