Size, turnover, profit and other interesting metrics
I'd love to get a sense of the size of the current of UK Digital Co-op sector, how many people are working in it, aggregate turnover and profit, that sort of thing. Plus things like when founded, what legal structure (and exactly what ruels), how decisions are made etc (as well as all of the pay and conditions stuff and what tools people use as per existing threads about those). If everyone here is willing to share all their info (and maybe do a few interviews) I'd be well up for trying to pull it all together into some kind of UK Digital Co-ops report.
Is there an agreed definition of the sector?
An agreed definition? I don't think so, but my working assumption is it is basically any and all co-ops who primarily do digital stuff! :P
'Primarily do digital stuff': too vague. Filling in Calverts data anyway.
perhaps for now the criteria should just be "co-ops engaging with/ attending this Digital Co-ops retreat thing" or similar! :P
Graham's question "Is there an agreed definition of the sector?" and the threads on here regarding "what is a digital co-op?" have been, kind of, resolved for now through the agreement that we are a network of Co-operative Technologists?
Hello Josef,
Thanks for this. We’d be up for sharing. Do you have any more information as to what the end use of the report will be?
best wishes
Marc De’ath
Creative Director
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Good question @marc33 I guess mostly just to raise the profile of everyone's work, to inspire others to follow suit and to create a base line against which we can say in a year/ few years time "this sector has had x% growth, x more jobs since x date" etc. But also just because I'm an info knowledge junkie with a need to know gene I can't turn off and I personally want to know! :P
Some of this stuff (turnover, total people, FTE) is in the main Google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cOmHX-BamapIcu43mXzNz2xHEgA3hUpkOSR0yzkF4uc/edit#gid=989508508
I suggest people add columns for now if they have extra info they want to share.
There's another thread about 'mapping the megazord' which is disappointing difficult because the folks at Open Data Services still haven't made linked data work :)
I've just updated us on the google doc :-)
Done
I am thinking about better pricing for jobs and getting more dosh per job and if that is a useful topic for the the Retreat. I would like to add the following questions to the spreadsheet, just using quick ballpark numbers... what do you think?:
LEAD GENERATION
What number of potential clients contact you requesting a project each month? (you cna check email, phone, referral, repeats etc)
SALES CLOSE RATE
What percentage of you generated leads turn into signed deals?
PROJECT PRICES
What Is the average price of all the proposals you submit?
PROJECT DEADLINES
What percentage of your projects get launched and paid on-time?
HOURS FOCUSED
What percentage of your time is spent doing what you love and are great at?
I've just realised
1) I perhaps shouldn't've created this new thread given the overlap with this already existing mapping/ documenting thread and also that
2) some of the info I've asked for he is beginning to be captured in the Attendees spreadsheet