MODULE 3b

3. Concrete Measures and schedule

After the cooperation partners have agreed on the common goals, vison and mission of the cooperation they now have to roughly determine with which measures and under the use of which resources they want to achieve these goals.

To use the potentials of the individual cooperation partners the potential needs to be known or defined. The most suitable potentials for cooperation will become the "core potentials" of cooperation. Those could be: staff, customers, equipment, technology/ machinery or innovation.

It does make sense to combine the core potentials.

Therefore the following tasks have to be clarified:

Structuring and distribution of work packages:

Which partner company takes over which role and which tasks?

Create time and budget plans:

What needs to be done by when? What expenses are incurred and how are they financed?

Staff and responsibilities regulations:

What exactly should each participant do in the cooperation? Who is responsible for which work?

Cooperation Coordinator / Steering Team:

Who coordinates, controls and monitors the cooperation process?

Check out the COFARM Summary Report and the Modules 1 and 2 where potential of cooperation in farming is shown!

Setting up a realistic timetable for a cooperation project is not an easy task. But it would be fatal to ignore  time planning, because there are too many uncertainties, dependencies and interfaces.

When planning the realization of the cooperation, the goals should be be operationalized as follows:

"WHO DOES WHAT WITH WHAT means until WHEN? HOW will the result be controlled?”

It is important that the partners of the cooperation, but also third parties, know how the cooperation is planning its development. Planning should not be too long-term (up to 3 years) and as practical as possible. A schedule helps companies to think through different activities, dependencies and interfaces.

The schedule is the basis of every planning tool. A concrete planning would be incomplete without a timeframe.

You should focus on the key milestones as well as on the main connections and the following elements:

  • Overview of the time course of the cooperation.
  • Important milestones and dates, to which the cooperation results are to achieve.
  • Relationships and dependencies between the individual phases.

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
CO-FARM: Enhancing COoperation amongst FARMing entrepreneurs
Project Number: 2016-1-IE01-KA202-016870

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