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An Introduction to Core PracticeThis document is an overview of CoPr (Core Practice, pronounced "copper") and of the Institute of Core Practice.
Guide to the IoCP website: corepractice.orgHelp for online users
Welcome to Core Practice"Best practice is a substitute for knowledge" Krag Brotby Simple: a checklist of the minimum things every business needs to do, and how to do them with the least fuss: the copper answer not the gold one. Free: contributed by the public, and returned to the public for free. It is distributed online at this website, or you can download it as a book. Really. No strings, no spam, no catch.
Is this revolutionary?We think we are doing something revolutionary here. is this the first open-source, user-contributed business information? Open source and similar concepts are well established in other areas (political transparency, freeware, journalism, encyclopaedia...) but has anyone done this with business information in general or process guidance in particular (small business or otherwise)? Wikipedia has information in it that is useful to a business, but it is not business-focused. It is aimed at the "man-in-the-street" or rather the "person-on-the-browser" (POTB). A small business owner is little removed from a POTB but Wikipedia is too wide-ranging to qualify as "business information".
In the PressWelcome to people from the media.
The formal definition of Core Practice is: The strategic decision to minimise cost in a discipline of the enterprise by implementing practices sufficient to (a) meet obligations and (b) to make processes work to a standard sufficient that risk (to the organisation and to people in its care) is reduced to some acceptable level
Founding committee membersInterest is invited from people who would like to help found the formal organisation of the Institute of Core Practice. Initial membership of the committee will be by invitation, in interim roles until the first AGM permits elections. It will be a busy first year. There is much we have done:
51st ICSB World Conference - MelbourneWe are considering launching CoPr to the public at this event. Anyone who wants to help at the conference let us know. We are not sure what that entails yet. html css specialistto tidy up and debug the cascading style sheets we use for printing CoPr content (and to a lesser extent look at the css for the website that seems to be working pretty well except for some Firefox quirks) Experience with PHP and/or Drupal useful. content contributorsWanted: people to help contribute (and review) content of CoPr for Small Business. You can see how much work we have to do here and exactly which ones need doing here We need people with experience in small business:
...you name it. Good written communication skills prefered. Time commitment can be whatever you like, but expect a minimum of 4-6 hours a week for several weeks. website designerWanted: somebody to improve on Rob's amateur efforts in designing this website's layout and navigation, including some or all of:
Preferably someone with experience in Drupal as we don't plan on changing CMS
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Known errorsCOPR HAS UNDERGONE A ROUGH UPGRADE: please be patient with us as we restore normal function. Basic stuff will be restored soon but it could be October 2008 before we are fully rebuilt with a new improved CoPr. Suggestions are welcomed on reshaping CoPr.
CoPr tipPass any ideas for content through the BSF, the Common Sense Filter, to make sure they fit Small Business
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