What are your views re Sport, Tourism and Tech @timhjrogers on BBC Radio Tue 26 Aug 2014

Your chance to contribute to the future of sport in Jersey

Tim Rogers and Ally Meredith are on BBC Radio Jersey 7am Tues 26Aug about Sport, Tourism and Tech

We are  reviewing ESC Strategy to make sure we are up-to-speed with facts

http://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDocuments/Education/R%20ESC%20SPORTS%20GREEN%20PAPER%2020130227%20LR.pdf

http://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDocuments/Leisure%20and%20entertainment/R%20Sport%20Consultation%20Responses%20Summary%2003072013%20TM.pdf

http://www.gov.je/Leisure/FortRegent/Pages/index.aspx

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The future is bright for Jersey, but the timing is now or never!

The future is bright for Jersey, but the timing is now or never!

SPORT & TOURISM OPPORTUNITES

We already have a fantastic environment for sport and it is amazing what people will spent to realise their sporting goals. People think nothing of jumping on a plane and staying in a hotel just to run 10k. I once flew to Birmingham for the Indoor Rowing Champs. I came 4th in 6min and 40secs. That trip worked out at 100 per minute and I loved it.

Jersey coaches including Nick Saunders and Tony Williams already export & promote Jersey by providing on-line coaching to hundreds of athletes all work the world. HeathHaus is recognition that people care about their health and will pay a premium for great facilities. There are so many examples. However there is no joined-up approach to integrate our resources and market Jersey. There is nowhere other than perhaps Club LaSanta in Lanzarote that you will find so many physios, medics, coaches, athletes, and facilities in an area 40 miles square. Our capacity to host the Island Games is testimony to the opportunities that exist every day, of every year not just Island Games 2015.

I am working to help better co-ordinate and leverage the Island Games, Youth Games and Commonwealth Games. Our ambition should be to share resources, talent, coaching and management. To combine, collaborate, co-operate and communicate to become a centre of excellence which offers a joined-up approach to sport and health and a performance programme that can lead from Youth Games -> Island Games -> Commonwealth Games and then, being part of GB for the Olympics. We can only do this, if we work as a team!

There are many world-class events that we could host here in Jersey.

SPORT & BUSINESS OPPORTUNITES

70 countries participated in the Glasgow Games. 200 world leaders. 7000 athletes. 5 billion viewers. Did Jersey realise the true potential of working with these people, these organisations and promoting itself to that audience?

I was invited to meet David Cameron at No 10, and he talked about the need to inspire, the need to train hard, and the benefits for the whole community in sport, in health and in business. I don t believe we have realised the potential that can be gained by working alongside Team GB or Team Australia or the business and export opportunities.

Success in sport is seen on the track, in the court, on the road. But there are opportunities in Marketing, Management, Coaching and Technology. We are looking for the best athletes, but why not also the next Seb Coe? Why don t the IoD put forward their best directors, the Institute of Marketing their best marketers or the Institute of Management their best manager to work along-side the performance management teams of England, New Zealand, Jamaica.

The next Commonwealth Games should make the other nations envious of our ability behind the scenes as well as on the field of play. The talent that has made Jersey an offshore finance centre is about enterprise, goals, drive and could be equally used in Sport Management. We often say business can lean a lot from Sport, but Clive Woodward was perhaps the first to suggest that sport can learn a whole lot from business!

If we do this then it is another reason for people all over the Commonwealth to come to Jersey to learn from us and buy our services.

SPORT-TECH JERSEY

Athletes want data to improve performance: top teams use wind tunnels, and wearable devices for speeds, power, heart rate, calories. Jersey s Gigabit + Digital Jersey + Google would be a great combination to develop these technologies into real-time feedback systems which go directly to the coach. In Formula 1 the data from the car goes directly to the engineers who give advice to the driver over the radio. Supposing we could do this for athletes and coaches, just think of the potential for feedback and improvement.

Many people now video on their phone, or maybe have those small GoPro cameras on their helmet. Suppose, using a product like Google glasses, the coach could see what the athlete sees as they are performing. Suppose the glasses had a heads-up display like a fighter plane which told the athlete where their rivals are, and how they are performing in real time! This would completely change race strategy in the way that radios and team cars have changed the way the Tour de France is won.

Suppose all this information went directly to your TV, so that the next time you watch the Olympics you can select an athlete and watch their speeds, power, heart rate, calories. You could even see what they see, though their eyes, if they are wearing Google glasses. This would completely revolutionise sport, participation and engagement.

There is nothing new in anything outlined above. These are all existing jig-saw pieces, but I believe that Jersey s Gigabit + Digital Jersey + Google would be perfect partners to prototype something in Jersey for the Island Games, the Commonwealth Games and maybe the Olympics.

Jersey wants to diversify from the Finance Industry and develop Digital Jersey. This seems an exciting opportunity, particularly because of the other applications (see below)

DIGITAL HEALTH

If we replace the word athlete with patient and the word coach with doctor we now have a new way of delivering digital health care to a community.

Athlete data now becomes health data and performance becomes wellbeing. Instead of an athlete being coached by someone track-side, or remotely the same concepts can be used to allow Doctors or Specialists to support patients thousands of miles away.

There has been a lot of work by Jersey s Heart Doctor Andy Mitchel on this, and I believe that Digital Heath is a huge opportunity for Jersey.

THE WAY FORWARD

I am not the expert, I don t have a new widget that will do all this today, but I have drive and passion and I believe Jersey has all the components (time, talent, technology, cash, enterprise) to make the above possible.

I am really keen to build and promote opportunities which will engage and excite our whole community, potentially linking this to TEDxYouth and creating both business opportunities and sport performance.

Is PRINCE killing project progress?

Is PRINCE killing project progress?

PRINCE2 is about [Pr]ojects [in C]ontrolled [E]nvironments and ostensibly is a structured approach to managing projects much the same as an accountant might use a structured approach to doing accounts. The advantage is having a well understood and transparent way to plan, monitor and review projects which can be universally understood. The problem is that the bureaucracy can consume more resources than actually delivering the project outcomes.

STORY

I was overhearing a project manager try and explain MS-Project and Gantt Charts to a manager who was much more comfortable with to-do lists and couldn t help feeling that the technology and terminology was onerous and confusing and that both actually undermined the process of project management.

It reminded me of a conversation during a project rescue where an indignant IT expert explained that they had diligently logged all the risks and it wasn t his responsibility to do anything more than update the spreadsheet. To his mind completion of the log was sufficient, even if it wasn t adequate for the communication, consultation or co-ordination of risks, issues and actions. His log was neatly in his draw, available to anyone who might ask for it, but he didn t see it as his role to be proactive.

OBSERVATIONS

Project Management is simple; it is about communication, consultation and co-ordination of aims, the tasks that contribute to those aims and the people who support the completion of the tasks. In essence you are looking to complete on-time, on-budget, to-specification with lo-risk and hi-communication.

Whilst MS-Project and Gantt Charts, as well as clever collaborative portals are all very useful the essence of successful project management is in human to human communication and this it sometimes better done with a to-do list and a cup of coffee than a flashing amber warning on a spreadsheet that is mis-understood or a Gantt chart that is unseen.

REAL-LIFE

For the Incorporation of the Ports of Jersey I started all things PRINCE2 with Gantt Charts and Project Highlight Reports and everything else from the Project Manager s toolkit. However the Gantt Chart was over 200 lines long and stretched from the ceiling to the floor in my office. The Project Highlight Reports were great, and everyone got one. However follow-up conversations revealed that they were received and filed, but not read and understood.

I had to change my approach to suit the organisation.

Instead we had 2-weekly coffee mornings where we would all get together and discuss what was happening in our work-streams. This was much more honest and revealing than Project Highlight Reports. I would then identify the key issues which would then make it to the Programme Board or Political Oversight Group.

Prior to the formal meetings of the Programme Board or Political Oversight Group there would be an informal pre-meeting with key officers to make sure there are no surprises and we quickly removed distraction from the key matters: Invariably the agendas for the meeting were very short with a very narrow focus on only the key issues for which a decision was needed.

This approach ensured communication, consultation and co-ordination up and down the hierarchical chain. It also offered focussed agendas, succinct papers and clear decisions which are the mark of good project management.

To find out more about the Incorporation of the Ports of Jersey

http://www.gov.je/Government/Consultations/Pages/PortsIncorporation.aspx

RECOMMENDATIONS

Don t get too hung up on forms, templates, charts or technology it is the message or action which is important.

Reduce the formality at the operational level so that dialogue is more honest and less likely to be full of self-promotional spin which usually accompanies people s update reports.

Use pre-meetings to cut through the jargon and identify people s key interests and preferred style rather than find yourself saying something in the wrong way, to the wrong person, at the wrong time, which could have been avoided with a little pre-meeting rehearsal.

Don t assume that anyone will read or understand what you have written, instead talk to them and use documents as a record AFTER the conversation, rather than INSTEAD of the conversation.

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THE AUTHOR

Tim Rogers is an experienced Project and Change Leader. He is founder of www.ciChange.org and curator for www.TEDxStHelier.Com . He is Programme Manager for the commercialization of Jersey Harbours and Jersey Airport. He is also Commonwealth Triathlete and World Championships Rower with a passion for teaching and learning and is a Tutor/Mentor on the Chartered Management Institute courses.

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eGovernment and Shaping Our Future

eGovernment and Shaping Our Future

 

CHANGE is not about tinkering with the edges and small improvements in admin. It is about thoughts and feelings and therefore needs to be seen , felt and heard (eg touching the senses). It’s the films we watch, the music we hear and the flags we wave which excite us. Admin just doesn’t do it!

 

You need to get people active: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

The States invited public sector workers to talk about change within the States and the vast majority said it isn’t happening fast enough. The response was that lots has been done on policies, terms and conditions and many more processes will be automated by technology. I can’t help feeling that whilst commendable a focus on admin and process doesn’t inspire and apparently isn’t actually recognised as change.

 

It is true that PERFORMANCE is achieved by the accumulation of marginal gains (eg British Cycling) but this (admin and process) is often invisible and the results appear magic eg the performance of Bradly Wiggins or Chris Froome. In government, there is much to commend about Lean Processes and Six-Sigma approach to becoming more efficient and effective but this doesn’t necessarily lead to change nor have much cultural impact. It does however have the merit of getting some people active.

 

If you were in a ship and you want to go faster your focus should be in the engine room. If you want to change direction then perhaps your emphasis should be on the bridge-deck. This is essential the difference between doing things right (faster, cheaper, better) and doping the right things (delivering the desired products and services) . In triathlon we often say there is no point in going fast if it is in the wrong direction.

 

What is it that eGovernment and Shaping Our Future are trying to achieve PERFORMANCE or CHANGE?  They are not mutually exclusive, but they do have an impact on the approach, priorities, audience and communication.

 

I think Shaping Our Future is a brilliant initiative, and ironically I see huge parallels with Guernsey’s Danelion Project which is much more “power to the people” and “community against government” but the ambitions for both are to make a better, healthier, happier Islands.

 

These are governments’ areas of focus and the coloured counters indicate which the public sector believes are the priorities. The red counters indicate Jersey’s greatest asset, which must be protected.

 

 

I suspect however that Shaping Our Future could benefit from better community engagement and maybe Guernsey’s Danelion Project might value some measures of performance to better direct the time, money and talent of participants.

 

If you have a view, why not contribute to the debate #sofjsy

 

Post-Script

 

This blog was emailed to the Shaping Our Future people for their comment prior to publishing. It was sent 18 July and despite several reminders no reply has yet been received.

 

What is ironic about this is that the people attending Shaping Our Future voted to say that change is not happening fast enough, and it seems that there isn’t the capacity to deliver change quickly. If it takes nearly a month to reply to an email I anticipate that the people attending Shaping Our Future will continue to be frustrated by the pace of change.

 

No wonder Guernsey’s Danelion Project is advocating revolution, and with the elections in October maybe Jersey will vote in that direction.

 

MORE INFORMATION

 

Shaping Our Future

http://www.gov.je/News/2014/pages/ShapingOurFuture.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYAGUefe4gM

http://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDocuments/Government%20and%20administration/R%20Preparing%20for%20Our%20Future%2020140128%20LO.pdf

Or follow #sofjsy on twitter!

 

Guernsey’s Danelion Project

http://guernseypress.com/news/2014/04/16/make-island-best-place-to-live-says-dandelion-project-group/

http://dandelion.gg/

#believeinguernsey on Twitter

 

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THE AUTHOR

 

Tim Rogers is an experienced Project and Change Leader. He is founder of www.ciChange.org and curator for www.TEDxStHelier.Com (next event 11 April 2014). He is Programme Manager for the commercialization of Jersey Harbours and Jersey Airport. He is also Commonwealth Triathlete and World Championships Rower with a passion for teaching and learning and is a Tutor/Mentor on the Chartered Management Institute courses.

 

Email: TimHJRogers@AdaptConsultingGroup.com

Mob: 07797762051 | Twitter @timhjrogers | Skype timhjrogers