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Meet Alan and Larry at the New Media Consortium (NMC) Hear their story of Bootstrapping Innovation

"Bootstrapping Innovation provides a structure for empowering people to solve complex problems together — leveraging the untapped potential of people, knowledge, and tools — to help us make smarter choices, achieve more brilliant outcomes, and increase innovation capacity and overall effectiveness." – Ronni Marshak, Senior Consultant/Analyst, Patricia Seybold Group [Source 2010]

"While Demming provided the improvement approach for the industrial age, Doug provided the innovation approach for the knowledge age." – Curt Carlson, President & CEO, SRI International, and Author of Innovation: The Five Disciplines [Source 2008]

Overview 1

Bootstrapping Innovation™ is a practical strategy for increasing the Collective IQ of any organization, network or society, while simultaneously increasing capacity for innovation and continuous improvement. Five organizing principles offer unique insight, alignment and leverage to increasingly expand and accelerate results:

1. Engage and network your innovators
2. Leverage Collective IQ with dynamic knowledge ecosystems
3. Focus beyond product or service on whole capability and genuine need
4. Use evolutionary approach to push the frontier
5. Walk your talk to bootstrap results

Bootstrapping Innovation is a distillation of Doug Engelbart's strategic vision put to practice. It is essentially the same strategic approach he applied in his own research team for breakthrough results.

An Introduction 2

   The Basics

• Bootstrapping Innovation Highlights - one page overview

   The NMC Story

• Bootstrapping Innovation in Action: NMC - a case example of how one innovative organization has put it to best practice; read their story, watch their presentation

    Press

• Bootstrapping Innovation: Leveraging the Collective IQ to Achieve Powerful Results - press article by Ronni Marshak, Senior Consultant/Analyst, Patricia Seybold Group, June 3, 2010


• Improve Your Ecosystem’s Ability to Tackle Complex Issues - companion article by Patty Seybold, in Outside Innovation, June 6, 2010
  

    More Resources

• Watch Doug presenting the Bootstrap "Paradigm Map" - for more grounding in the conceptual framework, watch video footage of Doug Engelbart presenting the big picture and key concepts to a variety of audiences
  


• Bootstrapping Innovation Slide Deck - presentation slides summarizing the basic model and the business case for putting it to practice

Getting Started 3

    Your Bootstrapping Innovation toolkit

• A How To Guide for Bootstrapping Innovation - a preliminary roadmap for putting it to practice in your own group


• Bootstrapping Innovation Worksheet - a self-assessment exercise to chart your group or organization in each of the five areas, revealing opportunities for alignment, leverage, innovation and next steps


• Bootstrapping Innovation Worksheet: NMC - a sample worksheet charting the New Media Consortium as a case example

Further Inquiry 4

    For more background

• Doug's Vision Highlights - the driving vision behind this work, with links to each concept and related materials
  
  
• About Us and our Vision and Mission Statement - making the case