Institutional challenges and opportunities for
information management, knowledge
brokering and research communications?
The 5 Ps:
Rob Cartridge
1. PROJECTS
2. (OVER) PROMISES
Opportunities:-
 OK Hub
 Climate Knowledge
Brokers
 GODAN
 Linked Open Data
 Climate Tagger
 Etc.
3. POOR LEADERS
4. PEOPLE
Top Flight Companies
Investing in Learning
 4 x more likely to report they are
responding faster to business change
 3x more likely to report improvement
in staff morale
 2x more likely to report customer
satisfaction increase
Source: Towards Maturity. Infocus 2016
5. (LACK OF) PARTNERSHIP
Opportunity
 Multi faceted
 Multi stakeholder
 Omni channel
 Omni platform
 Complex consortia
 with multi million
dollar contracts
So that’s it!
 Projects
 Promises
 Poor Leaders
 People
 Partnerships
“The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge.
A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material
things.” – E.F. Schumacher
rob.cartridge@practicalaction.org.uk
www.practicalanswers.org

Eldis 20th Anniversary Workshop 2016: Rob Cartridge