Senior Managers Leadership Forum

Topic of Discussion:

Briefing Notes at NRCan
We have created a briefing note wiki where you will begin to create a document based on your discussions around the following question:

How can we improve the briefing note process using collaborative technology?

Sub-questions (or categories):

1. Can a briefing note be replaced by the use of one (or more) collaborative tools? Explain.
2. What information could be developed collaboratively?
3. What levels of approval are required and who has overall authority?
4. What should the process be for creating content? Can content be shared in its entirety?
5. How can people work collaboratively to create content?
6. What issues and opportunities are important to consider?

This a brainstorming session where there is no right or wrong answer and there are always more questions than answers. Whatever product we end up with will be the result of informed leaders spending 20 minutes together talking about how they could use collaborative tools based on a brief demonstration of the possibilities.

BarnRaising

Some research on Wiki creation revealed that what we are doing with the SMLF group next Thursday is referred to as BarnRaising http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/BarnRaising. Essentially, BarnRaising involves getting a like-minded group (I think everybody at the SMLF would agree the briefing note process can stand to be improved!) together at a designated time (Thursday, May 24 at 2:45 pm) to create content on a wiki together. Just when we thought we were on to something...it has already been named!

At the bottom of this web page, which is really a wiki about wiki patterns and anti patterns, there is some terrific information. Recommended reading for sure!

This is the start....

This is the blog site for the Leadership Forum.

Anna, I hope you can edit this as I'm just putting ideas here for now. Only you and I are authorized to this site. We can start to create content for the event. We should have as much as possible done for Tuesday.

The topic of discussion for this blog is:

Briefing notes

Potential questions:

1) How to streamline the process

2) How to create meaningful content

3) What levels of authority are required to create info. Who can access briefing notes after they are written

4) What are the issues around multiple authors

5) Others.....