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FIPJP Executive Committee

Operational government of the sport — President, Secretary General, Treasurer, Vice-Presidents.

I korthet

The FIPJP Executive Committee — President, Secretary General, Treasurer and Vice-Presidents — runs the operational government of world pétanque. The platform gives them async board tooling, transparent confederation metrics and automated administration so a small elected body can govern globally without expanding payroll.

Motivation

Effective governance, growing the sport's prestige, successful Olympic campaign.

Kontext

The Executive Committee meets in person two or three times per year and otherwise governs by email, WhatsApp and ad-hoc calls across 6+ time zones. Members hold day jobs and serve on a near-volunteer basis with modest stipends.

Decisions cover budgets in seven-figure euro range, sanctioning of Continental and World Championships, allocation of development funds across regions with vastly unequal needs, and Olympic strategy. The committee is regularly second-guessed by national federations who claim their region is under-resourced or over-regulated.

Without shared, current evidence and a paper trail of decisions, every contested allocation becomes a political battle that consumes weeks of correspondence.

Behoven på djupet

1

A platform that automates routine federation administration so a small executive team can govern at global scale without expanding headcount.

Varför det är viktigt

Routine work — affiliation renewals, championship sanction approvals, fee invoicing, official appointments, communication to federations — currently consumes the majority of executive bandwidth. The Treasurer spends most of January chasing affiliation fees from 100+ federations in 30+ currencies.

The Secretary General manually compiles attendance lists, decision logs and championship paperwork. This crowds out strategy on Olympic positioning, sponsorship and youth development.

Adding staff is politically and financially impossible; the committee must run leaner, not bigger.

Hur Petanque Life svarar

Federation Dashboard surfaces the committee's recurring tasks as a guided queue. Fee Collection & Dunning automates affiliation invoicing and reminders in 30+ currencies through Stripe.

Championship Management routes sanction requests through configurable approval flows. Document Management auto-files signed decisions and contracts with retention policies, eliminating the manual archive that consumed an FTE.

2

Asynchronous board tooling — agendas, votes, document signing and decision logs — that works across time zones without requiring live meetings.

Varför det är viktigt

Forcing a Thai vice-president, a Malagasy treasurer and a French president onto a synchronous call requires 2 a.m. attendance for someone. Today this means decisions wait weeks for the next physical meeting, or are made by a small subset who happen to be online — both eroding legitimacy.

Email-based votes lose the audit trail; WhatsApp threads cannot be cited in disputes. When a sanction or budget vote is challenged, reconstructing what was decided, by whom, and with what quorum, takes hours of inbox archaeology.

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Board & Communication Tools provides time-shifted agendas, structured motions, recorded votes with quorum checks and auditable decision logs. Document Management handles e-signature flows for treaties, MOUs and sanction approvals.

All actions are timestamped and attributable, producing minutes that survive challenge years later.

3

Transparent confederation-level metrics on funding, participation and event allocation so competing regional interests can be weighed against shared evidence.

Varför det är viktigt

Every budget cycle the African confederation argues it is underfunded relative to participation, the Asian confederation argues it is the fastest-growing region, and the European confederation argues it generates most of the revenue. All three are partly right, but without shared data each negotiation reopens facts that should be settled.

Decisions on World Championship hosting, development grants and championship slots become politically charged because there is no agreed denominator. The committee loses weeks each year re-litigating numbers.

Hur Petanque Life svarar

Financial Reports break revenue, grants and championship costs by confederation and federation, with budget vs actuals and multi-year trends. Federation Dashboard exposes the same participation, growth and infrastructure metrics to every committee member simultaneously, so allocation discussions start from a single, current dataset rather than competing spreadsheets.

I praktiken

A Tuesday in November: the Treasurer opens the Financial Dashboard and sees seven federations are 60+ days late on affiliation fees totalling €43,000. He triggers a localised dunning sequence in three languages and assigns two cases to legal review. Meanwhile the Vice-President for Asia files a sanction request for the 2027 Asian Championships in Hanoi.

Federation Dashboard shows the host federation meets all infrastructure and anti-doping prerequisites; the request is queued for board vote. Each committee member receives a notification in their language, casts a vote during their working hours over four days, and the motion carries 6-1 with quorum confirmed. The decision log is automatically appended to the Hanoi event record, signed by the Secretary General, and pushed to the Asian Confederation and the host federation — all without a single live call.

Så ser framgång ut

  • Affiliation fee collection rate at end of Q1: 95% (from ~70% on manual chasing)
  • Average time from board motion filed to recorded decision: under 5 working days, down from 6 weeks
  • Quorum and vote provenance disputes per year: zero, with full audit trail per motion
  • Executive staff hours per month spent on routine administration: reduced 60%
  • Confederation-allocation decisions challenged in Congress: under 10% of motions, vs ~40% historically

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