SMG: Our goals for a better way

Good afternoon all,

With the 2010 and Beyond panel now getting itself organized, the Standing Committee on Finance brief due on August 15th, and with our SMG meeting slated for September 8th (full day in Ottawa at the RA Centre, RSVP to info@sportmatters.ca), we have some time to recalibrate our goals for a better way for sport and physical activity in the coming era.

My sense is that it would be helpful if we could articulate a set of goals - our sector's aspirations - from which we could then identify what's required to achieve them. Some of this is now being pulled together from the first BHD (big honkin document) and the process to create our next SMG policy framework (BHD version 2). Still, it's useful for us to fine tune and zero-in on what matters most.

So please take a stab at answering the question: what can we do better? Send them to us (info@sportmatters.ca) and we'll roll them up prior to our meeting on September 8th. Keep in mind that we had identified the following at our May 1st meeting about our sector strategy:
better alliances and mergers
better strategic plans and relationships between NSO-PSO-Club (as in the example of MOUs and Service Agreements like in Athletics and Hockey)
better efficiencies through sharing "back of house" services, like finance, hr, etc
better strategic relationships through co-location strategies, as in the efforts in Ottawa, Winnipeg etc to house sport and physical activity organizations together
better efforts to wind down initiatives and then to innovate around future goals

Let's all take a longer and more comprehensive look at what we can do better - send in your ideas, ok?

One last thing - we sent along an opinion piece to a few newspapers and the Ottawa Citizen ran with it this Saturday (link below) - Send it along to others, if you wish.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Vancouver+2010+just+beginning/1827357/story.html


All for now,
Ian