Governance and Leadership

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Governance and Leadership

• Thoughts on Best Practices

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Stakeholders

• Determined by scope of project
• State
• County
• Regional
• City

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Stakeholders

• Identify the stakeholders
• Executive
• Legislative
• Judicial
• Local

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Stakeholders

• Stakeholder analysis
• How much power?
• How much in favor / opposed?
• What information do they have, necessary for the
  project?
• Determine Communications Role in Governance Based
  on Analysis

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Stakeholders

• Success of Project Depends on Active
  Participation of Stakeholders
• Is a Community Project
• More that acquiescence is needed
• Non-participation by relatively few stakeholders
  could put entire project at risk.

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Governing Body

• Major stakeholders should be represented on the
  governing body.
• Dual responsibility of members
• Represent their area of stakeholders
• MORE IMPORTANTLY Act for the common good.

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Leadership vs. Management

• Management Coping with Complexity
• Brings Degree of Order and Consistency
• Leadership Coping with Change
• Cant manage people into battle
• Must LEAD into battle

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Leadership vs. Management

• Leadership Sets the Direction
• Vision of the Future
• Strategies to Achieve the Vision
• Management Develops Capacity to Achieve the
  Vision
• Organizing
• Staffing
• Controlling and Problem Solving

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Leadership / Management

• Set the Direction
• Align People
• Motivate

• Plan and Budget
• Organize and Staff
• Control and Solve Problems

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Its the Business Purpose!

• Sharing Criminal Justice Data is not JUST a
  technology project.
• It is fundamentally a business project that is
  assisted by technology.
• If You Build It, They Will Come is dangerous!
• Identify the business needs
• Then find the technology to assist

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Its the Business Purpose!

• Dont forget Data policies!
• Is a Business Issue
• Effected through Security Technologies.

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Its the Business Purpose!

• Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail
• Remember, this is MANAGEMENT
• The plan MUST be reviewed periodically and
  adjusted to ensure it will effectuate the vision.

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Think Globally, Act Locally

• No matter what project a criminal justice agency
  considers, it must be able to communicate
  (transfer data) to others in the criminal justice
  network.
• Heres where the techies come in
• Be sure the architecture permits open transfer of
  data.

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Trust

• When representatives from various stakeholder
  groups work on a change project, must have a
  relationship on which to build.
• Communication is the key.
• Trust is the goal.

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The Trust Triangle
Affinity
Communication
Trust
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Resources

• John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do, by John
  P. Kotter (Harvard Business Review Press)
• The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge (Currency
  Doubleday)
• Boards That Make a Difference, John Carver
  (Jossey Bass Publishers)

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Contact Information

• Hon. Thomas G. McCarthy
• Judge of District Court
• Box 867, Gayord MN 55334
• Tel [phone]
• E-mail tom.mccarthy_at_courts.state.mn.us