Graham McLaren presented on supporting the deployment and adoption of the Breeding Management System (BMS) through regional hubs. The Generation Challenge Programme will support staff placements at larger institutes to promote BMS uptake through technical support, capacity building, and breeding coordination. There are currently seven regional hubs supporting BMS adoption. Adopting BMS involves assessing feasibility, building an implementation team, developing a plan, verifying resources, customizing BMS, and deploying it in operations. The International Breeding Platform will help with implementation planning, data migration, training, and targets adopting BMS in eight programs and small enterprises per year.

1. 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)

2. Support for Deployment
Regional Hubs
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3. 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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4. 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
follow. Have influence
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5. Hubs – The current situation
 Current Hubs
 Africa Rice
 Biotec
 IITA
 CAAS
 BeCA
 ICRISAT
 CERAAS/
CORAF
 Others Coming
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6. Adoption
What is needed to adopt the BMS
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7.  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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8.  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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9.  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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10.  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

11.  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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12.  Set up the infrastructure
 Customize programs
 Migrate data
 Modify workflows
 Identify/modify training materials
Setup customized program resources
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13.  User training
 User support
 Monitoring progress
Deployment
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14. Adoption
How the IBP can help
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15.  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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16.  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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