GNUBiz / experiences

[Diogo Miguel Constantino dos Santos]

Qui, 2005-05-26 às 13:49 +0200, João Miguel Neves escreveu:
> Well, I was one of a group of people who tried building such a
> cooperative in Portugal, but failed.

I'm one of does persons involved in that project (hi João).

>  Issues included accountability
> (who's responsible for what, particularly replying to RFPs), payments
> (who receives what) and general coordination.

Yes. Agree with that. But it wasn't just that.

>  Eventually we had 2/3
> highly motivated people that tried to push it forward, but these
> discussions turned all work impossible and didn't allow us to reply
> quickly to inquiries. Obviously the problems weren't formal ones, but
> related to people.

The lack of hability of most people to commit fully to the goal (for
economic reasons) was also a problem.


With this experience I became convinced that there as to a clear and
formal structure to define who will do what and when, as well as who
will benefict from what, that works for every business, without the need
for the people to think on that every time.


-- 
Diogo Miguel Constantino dos Santos <diogomcs at mail.pt>