On Jul 13, 2008, at 00:00, Alan Burlison wrote: > Why do we need a separate committee for this? It seems to me that > this > issue is clearly within the remit of the entire OGB - after all it's > an > issue of Governance.
Yes, it is a whole OGB issue. But good Bords breaktheir work down into areas under the oversight of individual members and then gather wider groups around them so that the decision making is not a mono-culture. It's up to the OGB to decide, but we need to move to a model of wider governance - the OGB is not automatically blessed with all the skills needed for any task. One way to do that is to form Board committees to handle key work. These can be goal-based or function-based. We'll hopefully have two function-based Committees soon as well, for Membership and Group Resourcing decisions. This Board Committee is a goal-based one, preparing a recommendation for the OGB to briefly consider and endorse. Discussion on-list is fine and appropriate but sometimes it takes more than that to build a workable proposal and I'd expect this Committee to have a call or two to sort out anything too difficult to resolve to consensus on-list. S.
