Monthly Archives: January 2024
Music Education Channel Intro – Strategy & Innovation Forum Discord
Education and Training is one of the key lenses through which policy-makers and funders see our sector. It is education and skills development that drives the ‘talent pipeline’. Influencing this pipeline is, alongside targeted tax and subsidy, the principal mechanism by which government at a local and national level can implement industrial strategy. Planning for […]
Music – A Triple Bottom line approach?
I tend to assume most organisations in music these days follow some version of a Triple Bottom Line approach, where objectives can be understood as Artistic, Social, and Financial and the wider contribution of the music sector captured in terms of Cultural, Social, and Economic benefits. The specific balance between the areas of value from […]
Music in Sheffield: Strategy & Innovation Forum – Discord Server Structure
The server has been organised according to the various sectors of the economy that music organisations might operate within. The Arts | Education | Health | Community Music | The Tech Sector | Media & Entertainment | Influencer Marketing | Placemaking This is partly to break out of the limitations of thinking of the music […]
Music in Sheffield Strategy & Innovation Forum – Aims and Objectives
A healthy grassroots music sector relies on a thriving ecosystem of amateur and professional, for-profit and not-for-profit organisations. There will typically be some larger, more-stable infrastructure (such as civic venues, education providers, local government agencies, utilities), alongside a number of smaller, specialist organisations. Many music organisations actually treat music itself as an external service supplied […]
Music in Sheffield: Innovation & Strategy Forum – Discord welcome
Welcome to the Music in Sheffield: Innovation & Strategy Forum server! This is a forum to share expertise regarding viable business models for music organisations, primarily those operating at a regional or grassroots level. Glossary ‘Music organisation’ – Organisations that might be interested in contributing to the server include artists, venues, labels and so on […]
A Coat Worth Wearing 