Management discussions

  

Here's one of the Lithos we will be producing as a collectable item.

  As the theatrical and film production of The Gnomes of New Hope draws ever closer to reality, more details of our progress will be posted here.  I may at times discuss details which are not easily understood by people who are not engaged in this activity, but for the most part those details will be posted on IMS Producing Partners. It's a fine line between posting classified business information and enough details to inform those persons who are not vested, but may like to consider being vested.

  Obviously, we need to raise significant funds to keep this project moving forward and at this time, the mechanism for doing that is to establish The Elder Gnomes Joint Venture. Some details have been posted below, but the more significant details are left to one-on-one business, taking place at my studio. Future activity may be remote from the studio, but to kick it all off, activity must take place at my offices. Let me just say that producing the larger project will involve millions of dollars, which I leave up to The Elder Gnomes Joint Venture to secure and manage, but my budget design does accommodate categories and su-categories that can be funded at various increments and does not require the Joint Venture to be in place. Although any funding will fall under the authority of the Elder Gnomes Joint Venture, IMS Management, and the Gnomes of New Hope Productions.  That's not to say that another management plan may present itself, but in the absence of another plan, those three organizations make up the Organizational Structure.

As it stands now, I am still engaged in Publishing Activities, so that Business Plan remains unimplemented. It is my hope that another plan will be revealed before I move to engage this three tiered management plan. Or at the very least, other partners will step up to implement that plan, because it is a very good structure.

I will continue this later.  AG

Thoughts on Reorganization

I have not been focusing too much on management for the past year or so, mainly because of the urgent work necessary for IMS Publishing and preparing The Gnomes of New Hope Book Collection. The book series represents a substantial product line, which you can glean from the Gnomes blog. So the focus has been finishing the Core Creative Materials, most specifically the publishing layouts. 

That being said, The Elder Gnomes Joint Venture is the next "management" arena that will need attention. The business plan for the Gnomes of New Hope addresses numerous aspect of management. For some time I have kept that plan close to my chest, not being willing to post it online, but since I am 67 years old, I could drop dead tomorrow, so there is no point in keeping it to myself. I feel like all I want to do is play with my cars, which of course, I can't do as long as The Gnomes of New Hope is still in it's gestation period. So - let's get the show on the road, as they say.

With that in mind, I expect that I will begin posting some of The Business Plan here.

I also have other business activities that require building a vested Board of Directors for each of them. So there are some real investment opportunities here. Now, I will say that in those circumstances, any success in those endeavors will depend wholey upon the credibility, experience and talent of the board members, not on me. The opportunity has only made itself known through me, it cannot depend upon me for success. I am nearing the end of my rope. I want to be straight up about that. My goal is to establish the management operations so that the endeavors I make mention of here can "have legs". Here's the truth of the matter; I have spent almost fifty years building Image of the Mind Studios, very slowly and very carefully, so as to survive while engaging in assorted creative art endeavors that, as you know, seldom provide enough resources to make it to the end. That has meant keeping it low key, enough so as to be able to direct resources as needed to be able to weather the storms of depravation. There has always been the potential for real growth, but I have remained in the development arena for very good reasons. Now there is no need for that to be the case, but in order for it to grow, practically speaking, there needs to be an organizational structure that is different than what it has been. That is the goal. And that structure is outlined somewhat in The Business Plan. So I will begin posting some of that here.

The clearly stated objective is to build a vested Board of Directors and begin transferring Image of the Mind Studios over to a corporate management structure, thus retiring myself from the operation.

I will discuss more of this in coming posts.  AG