Strategy and Organizational Structure

[Molaskes]

Getting things done reliably and regularly always requires good organization, planning, structure, and methods. And it requires good management to get things done effectively and, for long-term sustainable performance, also efficiently.

Therefore the BWTT needs a stable, reliable and competent core to exist and function. Around this core, which at least must consist of one committed driver (manager, editor, organizer, administrator) but can also be distributed among a group of people, it can have any number of contributors who more or less regularly, or even just once, help the BWTT work further along its purpose, by their own free decision, following both their motivation and their specific expertise.

Nobody is forced in any way to contribute anything, but everybody can contribute, as long as they respect the rules that ensure that the BWTT works effectively and efficiently.

The quality control of the BWTT, ensuring really good quality of any published content as well as ensuring a realy good reputation of the BWTT (by moderating the manners in which discussions are held, and preventing legal, moral or cultural escalations) is done by web administration, moderating, editing, and publishing, always adhering to the according set rules given and explained in this document.

The BWTT needs to build, maintain and defend a very good reputation both in order to become and then remain effective, and to attract more and more high-quality contributors. An essential part of this reputation is its openness in combination with its quality rules, and its being public, working transparently.

By the Power Strategy Formula (power=effectiveness is force and/or intelligence, times organizedness, times resources, times number of people), where the think tank naturally and strategically will not use any force, but over-compensate by intelligence (hence “think tank”), it is apparent that in order to be effective, the BWTT needs to maximize intelligent thinking, an organized workflow, any useful resources it can gather (including knowledge, contacts, publishing channels, and so on), and finally its number of contributors.