Strategy

OAC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY-BRIEF

Today, anyone can choose to live and work anywhere. The OAC Professional Development Curriculum is key to educating and training a thriving local and globally competitive State of Ohio Creative-Industry Workforce.

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SPEAKER NOTES

SLIDE #1 - OAC Skills Training and Leadership Development Strategy-Brief.

The document offers a strategic direction for professional development curriculum that prioritizes professional development, creative industry readiness, and logistically positions Ohio creative talent at the heart of innovation and local enterprise development for community and economic development.
This document provides a macro strategy - the big picture view - that once approved, will establish system values to inform the design of a ONE DAY EXPLORATORY LAB, the starting point in the larger system.

SLIDE #3 - The OAC Creative-Industry Workforce System can be collaboratively led by OAC Leadership, OAC Artists, and the State of Ohio Department of Economic Development

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This is a visualization of the career system currently in place for Ohio artists. Most graduates must find work to pay for debts, should they have them, and living expenses. Temporary jobs can create a downward cycle of job-hopping or permanent employment in an unrelated field.
Source: Saving for College calculator http://www.savingforcollege.com/college-savings-calculator/index.php?current_cost=56026&years_until_college=17&years_attendance=4&attendance_rate=100&coverage_rate=100&save_until=begins&starting_balance=0&contribution_rate=12&inflation_rate=4&investment_performance=6&page=results
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Salaries and Wages-Waiters and Waitresses Median Annual Wage http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes353031.htm

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An OAC Creative-Industry Workforce System shifts creative talent from avocation to vocation by providing coaching, mentoring and training, a peer community and partnership opportunities for artists in Ohio’s creative-industry economy.
As a public education, programs and granting entity, The Ohio Arts Council is well positioned to help artists literally bridge the gap between traditional education and jobs.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Salaries and Wages http://www.bls.gov/ooh/business-and-financial/management-analysts.htm

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The Innovation Framework is a heuristic guide to strategic investment in an OAC Creative-Industry Workforce System to advance Ohio’s innovation economy.
The OAC Creative-Industry Workforce System (see next slide) reflects strategic investments in all areas of the framework.
Attribution: Ed Morrison, Economic Policy Advisor, Purdue Center for Regional Development, Purdue University https://www.i-open.org/the-innovation-framework.html

SLIDE #7- The OAC Creative-Industry Workforce System is a utility-scale workforce development project. The system is comprised of technology-supported social intelligence feedback loops that inform transformative enterprise for social innovation. The OAC Creative-Industry Workforce System connects Ohio based creative talent and industry to new business development opportunities. The OAC system generates Ohio’s creative-industry knowledge economy.

(OAC ONE DAY LAB introduces Ohio artists to the OAC Creative-Industry Workforce System, OAC Professional Development Curriculum and the OAC Creative-Industry Network. These are core components in a larger education, skills training and workforce development system to centrally position Ohio artist talent and leadership in economic development.)
OAC PROFESSIONAL CURRICULUM WORKSHOP is skills training, leadership development and how to set up a civic forum.
OAC INTERVIEWS AND CONVERSATION DATA informs artist entrepreneurs, partners, projects and the community-at-large.
OAC DIGITAL ASSETS AND CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES is home to metadata content libraries. Metadata is OAC Creative-Industry Network system social intelligence data.
OAC WEBSITE is the system’s front-end web platform ie., www.OACCreativeIndustryNetwork.net and Web 2.0 technologies. It is the virtual home for Ohio artists, OAC Professional Development resources and online community.
OAC CONTENT MARKETING publishes news, success stories, social media, issue briefs and reports.
OAC CREATIVE-INDUSTRY FORUMS create the open, neutral spaces to convene important new conversations of artists and industry. Forums generate social capital and develop public-private partnerships with colleges and universities, foundations, libraries, government, organizations and businesses. New partnerships share assets and collaborate to accelerate and scale enterprise development.
OAC CREATIVE-INDUSTRY NETWORK is anchored by Creative-Industry Forums that generate social capital, computational data, relationships and partnerships.

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OAC CREATIVE-INDUSTRY WORKFORCE SYSTEM DATA SOURCES-The OAC Workforce System generates unique and varied types of digital data essential to the efficacy of incremental system change. This data is used to track a spectrum of user feedback and network health. The data provides unique information about network member identity, “crowd” sentiment, collaboration success and failure, and types of projects, for example. Data offers us the ability to track what it is we wish to measure across the system and is the source of OAC Creative-Industry Workforce System content marketing.
OAC DATA is unique because each piece is a signal or marker of investment value through the lens of the Innovation Framework. This is accomplished through content collection and curation process, and is how to connect collective insights and innovations to affect community and economic development.
OAC Workforce Data System is supported by a strategic social media toolset. This toolset orchestrates the release, measures audience responsiveness, and collects member insights and suggestions, for example, that can be tracked as social media analytics.
Over time, the effectiveness of an OAC Professional Development Curriculum can be measured on the population in relationship to successful attainment of goals and dynamic program improvements, for example.
Measurements based on quality and volume of enterprise development affecting community and economic development can be tracked, for example.
There is no limit to “putting data to work” by leveraging the production of quality digital data, network responsiveness and data’s ability to give voice to each individual and the larger collective story
“Metadata” is “data about data”. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata

SLIDE #9 - The OAC Creative-Industry Workforce System generates digital data.

OAC DIGITAL ASSETS AND CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES support metadata content libraries and the system’s front-end web platform.
SYSTEM DATA is interview and conversation data, community news, member stories, issue briefs and reports
SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE DATA communicates network member identity, value and meaning through the investment framework to educate, inform and catalyze business development

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OAC Professional Development in support of a larger workforce strategy is based on Leadership Development and Skills Training.
Leadership Development topics:

Network Mindset-strategies and practices to help artists understand a systems approach to network thinking
Theory of Change-helping artists to develop a clear understand of how creativity and innovation accelerate change
Strategic Framework-next generation systems emerge from investments made over time guided by an investment framework
Public-Private Partnerships-leverage shared assets for community and economic development
Scale- “is ability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work in a capable manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability The OAC Creative-Industry Workforce System is a scalable system, for example.

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OAC Professional Development in support of a larger workforce strategy is based on Leadership Development and Skills Training.
Skills Training Topics:

Rudiments of collaborative conversations
Appreciative inquiry and sense making in complex environments
Fundamentals of strategic project planning
Elements of data communications

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A SMART Workforce is guided by SMART Goals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
Creative-Industry Forums are branded local hubs that generate social networks and enterprise projects. Forums cultivate local consultant networks. This strategy utilizes the successful Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) Civic Forum process for business development. See: Civic Forums at https://www.i-open.org/civic-forums.html
Digital Assets-are all OAC system digital data and content stored as OAC metadata. OAC Digital Assets serve as source data for computational research analysis (ie., social media analytics, social network analysis) and content for social media communications, content marketing and publishing such as Issue Briefs and Industry Reports published from conversational transcriptions and research
Enterprise development occurs outside of Creative-Industry Forums by ie., small teams, roundtables and partners
Issue Briefs and Industry Reports published from conversational transcriptions and research
Prosperous Ohio! is what bringing artists, creativity, entrepreneurs, partners together to generate a collective community is all about!

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Relationships-we can map, qualify and measure social networks
Conversations-we can learn how many, the success, failure, diversity and quality of new conversations we start
Partnerships-we can identify the types of partnerships we create, their longevity and productiveness, and what new partnerships they inspire
New Businesses-we can measure the number, innovativeness and type of new businesses created
Jobs & Employment-we can inventory and track new jobs and employment positions catalyzed by system investments

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Fixed Costs vs Network Growth
Curriculum Investment: 1) Education 2) Public Programs 3) Platform Development