BMS Deployment and Adoption

Presented at the GCP General Research Meeting by Graham McLaren

Date Tuesday 7th October 2014, Rayong, Thailand.

A pathway to successful adoption of the Breeding Management System

An initiative of the CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme (GCP)

Support for Deployment Regional Hubs

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Regional Hubs

GCP to support placement of staff with larger institutes to catalyze the uptake and use of BMS and support services Technical support coordinator Capacity building coordinator Breeding coordinator

Reach beyond users in institute to networks of partners and eventually other potential clients (including SME’s)

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Development of hub networks Take advantage of well established large

institutes in the regions to drive adoption and dissemination of BMS On the ground and easily accessible for

regional users Know the landscape (ag research,

probably already have good established working relationships) If large institutes implement others will

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Hubs – The current situation Current Hubs

Africa Rice Biotec IITA CAAS BeCA ICRISAT CERAAS/ CORAF

Others Coming

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Adoption What is needed to adopt the BMS

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Assess the feasibility of adopting BMS Build an implementation team Develop an implementation plan Verify the plan and resources Setup customized program resources Deploy BMS in day to day operations

Six steps to adoption

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Do we need BMS? Short and long term objectives of adopting What resources do we have available? Gather baseline data

Feasibility

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Crop, farming practice and geographic region Program name and objectives Number of breeders, technicians and field staff Current information management practices Breeding methodologies - traditional, molecular, DH Program size - population development Program size - line evaluation Productivity of the program over the past five years Expected changes over the next five years

Baseline data

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Institutional level Change manager Application manager(s) Informatics specialist(s) Data manager/curator(s) Early adopters

Implementation team

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IBP Support IBP manager Deployment team leader Informatics specialist(s) Data manager(s) Hub support

Describe program workflows Match BMS functionality with each step in

the workflow Identify the human and infrastructure

resources Plan data migration Write up the plan and verify it with

management

Implementation plan

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Set up the infrastructure Customize programs Migrate data Modify workflows Identify/modify training materials

Setup customized program resources

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User training User support Monitoring progress

Deployment

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Adoption How the IBP can help

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Two Deployment Teams Graham McLaren and Arllet Portugal Supported by four data management experts Plus IBP technical experts in breeding and

molecular breeding Support institutes/enterprises wishing to

adopt BMS by helping with Implementation planning Data migration User training

IBP Deployment Support

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IBP Phase II targets implementation in eight institutional breeding programs per year. In addition we would like to implement

BMS in several small scale breeding enterprises each year. If your program or partners are ready to

adopt BMS please come and discuss timing and process with Graham and Arllet.

Deployment Targets

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