Colleagues,
Ian Jones has hit the nail on the head. The Secretariat needs more
funding and the new CEO will need far more freedom of action than the
policy document on the post circulated at the Advisory Committee would
seem to allow in order the manage the funds and improve capacity at
every level.
Michael Ryan
ICOM-Ireland
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Subject: Strategic Plan
Ian Jones
Dear colleagues
ICOM's Triennial Budget 2008-2010: putting the Strategic Plan into
effect
Our treasurer has sent us two e mails relating to the Strategic Plan.
Fine, except for one matter. There is no indication as to how the
objectives of the Plan are to be achieved. Pages 14 to 22 of the
printed version of Our Global Vision list a string of objectives,
actions and anticipated results. Who exactly is going to do all this?
Words can't, only people, unfortunately. The Strategic Plan for
2005-2007 contains the statement "The Secretariat will be required to
provide more services and support as International Committees and
membership grow, and in response to the external environment." There is
a new International Committee, more members and, as ever, a changing
environment. The Secretariat has been stretched and is continuing to
be stretched, and now it is asked to do more. How can it, unless it is
given more resources?
I am a member of CAMOC, the new International Committee, which is yet
another committee for the Secretariat to service. I fully share the
concerns of Jan Wouters and Bernard Blache and many others about the
needs of the International Committees. Yet, whatever our needs, and
those of the so-called network, the needs of the Secretariat are just as
pressing. It needs resources (usually known as money) quite simply for
doing what is asked of it now and in the future. Without a properly
funded Secretariat the Global Vision will be lost in cyberspace.
Ian Jones
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