The Process

The Cluster Management Team in partnership with the originating organisation of the Collaborate 2 Innovate Project Idea will initiate a Registration of Interest process in order to provide other Cluster members with the opportunity to express their desire to be involved in the project, the role(s) they seek within the project team, and the capabilities they will provide.
 
An outline of the Collaborate 2 Innovate Project Idea will be posted on the web-site and members asked to indicate their interest in participating in the development project. To indicate its interest, an organisation completes the Registration of Interest form, providing details of the capabilities that it can offer and the role it seeks to play.
 
The original promoter of the Collaborate 2 Innovate Project Idea will have a preferred status for the lead role, but other organisations may be considered if the core accountabilities of the Lead are not met by the originating company. Based upon the responses, the parties invoking the Registration of Interest process will determine project participation based on competencies, alignment of solution offerings and ability to involve clients and funders in the project.
 
Once the evaluations are complete, the organisations that registered their interest will be notified of the results. Where several registrations of interest have offered similar capabilities, a more detailed evaluation will be undertaken to select the optimal solution to meet the business requirements. Candidate organisations may be asked to provide additional information or make presentations to the evaluation committee.
 
Where one or more key project roles has not been filled by the registrations of interest, other organisations within the Cluster (or exceptionally outside of the Cluster membership) may be invited to participate to fulfil specific project roles.
 

Collaborate 2 Innovate Project Team Structure

Role	Project Accountabilities
Project governance, project directorship	The Cluster will provide project governance and overall project directorship. The Cluster will also contribute to the completion of the Project Concept Brief providing expertise in the areas project contractual frameworks and potential sources of funding.
Lead Partner	The Lead Partner will be a vendor with capability to invest in the solution development and taking it to offshore markets. The Lead Partner will likely contribute a solution, project resources and possibly project management expertise.
Support Partner	The Support Partner will need to have the capability to contribute expertise and resources to the project such as business analysis and solution architecture as well as a solution, hardware, integration services and possibly project management expertise. This role is likely to be assumed by an organisation that can assist with channels to overseas markets for the lead partner and other participants in the project.
Customer	This organisation will utilise the solution being developed by the project team. The customer must be able to contribute funding and/or resources to the project, and willing to act as a reference point post-project.
Systems Integrator	If not already offered by another participant, business and systems integration services will be required. The Systems Integrator may also provide project management expertise.
Solution component suppliers	These project team members will have an existing solution that they will be looking to contribute to the project.
Infrastructure	The solution may require infrastructure either located in the customer premises or hosting capacity. The required infrastructure could be IP networks or mobile devices as well as servers.
Measurement and research.	The project will ideally be measured to ensure that the success criteria are achieved and the benefits are quantified.