The Gordon Group
TGG Models
TGG serves as a think-tank in the nonprofit and criminal justice reform spaces. Some of our original models are provided here as an introduction to our work. They are each expanded and explained in a separate book, technical bulletin, or blog post.
1. Nonprofit Success Model
The primary sign of success in nonprofit programming is when someone from another community visits your site and says, "This is amazing! We need this program in our community." How exactly do you replicate a successful program to another organization, site, or branch of your organization in another community? Replication can be hard or easy -- it all depends on how you structure your organization to anticipate success from the earliest stages.
2. The Original Meta-Model
The very first "breakthrough" model I developed was the Corporate Data Architecture schema shown below. Click/tap the image to see the full schema.
When I was a Principal Consultant for The Registry Inc. in 1996, I developed this schema based on all the work I had done over the years as a data modeler, executive information systems (EIS) specialist, database administrator, data administrator, systems analyst, and repository implemen- tation consultant. See the full blog post about it here.