Organization Structure

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Organization Structure

• June Perritt
• IBM / Organizational Structure Tiger Team

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Background

• From the May Forum
• Launched the Organizational Structure Workgroup
• Goals
• Define organizational structure requirements
• Propose alternatives for the Accessibility Forum
  that meet these requirements
• Conduct a vote of the Forum members

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Organizational Structure Workgroup

• Jim House (TDI)
• June Perritt (IBM)
• David Poehlman (American Council of The Blind)
• Joy Relton (Unisys)
• Mark Urban (National Committee for Information
  Technology Standards)
• Gregg Vanderheiden (Univ. of Wisconsin - TRACE
  Research Development Center)
• Accessibility Forum Staff Ed Reniker, Jack
  Corley, Phil Rosche

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Team recommendations

• Goals of the Forum Structure
• Required Organizational Activities
• Organizational Structure Requirements
• Proposed alternatives

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Goals of the Forum Structure

• Achieve broad acceptance of Forum results
• Articulate and resolve issues
• Ensure balance among all stakeholder perspectives
• Encourage member participation
• Enhance success of efforts / quality of efforts
• Promote communication within and across
  stakeholder communities
• Develop external awareness

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Required Organizational Activities

• Recommend policy and strategic direction
• Provide ongoing management of Forum work efforts
• Perform Forum work efforts
• Enhance interaction among focused stakeholder
  groups

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Organizational Structure Requirements

• Policy and Strategic Leadership
• Project Management
• Project Teams
• Groups with a shared perspective

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Presentation of Recommendations

• Ballot to membership
• Balloting period August 15, 2001 through August
  27, 2001
• Three alternatives for consideration
• Results
• 29 votes received
• Distribution of votes
• Example 6
• Example 5
• Example 17

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Question

• Is the Forum ready to adopt Example 3 as the
  Organizational Structure?