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Articles of Interest:
Check out The man who sees the future - Doug Engelbart built the mouse; he may alter computing again in US News & World Report 20-May-96.

See also 50 Years After 'As We May Think': The Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium, in ACM Interactions, March 1996, highlights of "the intense intellectual and emothional quality of what was a most extraordinary event." Featuring Engelbart as keynote speaker.
Picture of US News magazine cover

Awards: Congratulations to Bootstrap Director, Doug Engelbart, for the following:

elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Certificate of Merit award from The Franklin Institute
SoftQuad Web Award presented at the World Wide Web conference in Boston last December.

The Bootstrap Vision

"Is your company poised and fit, ready to master the
unprecedented challenges of the next decade, and beyond?"

Organizations are being challenged to make quantum leaps in their knowledge work capability. Rising competition, the need to learn and change ever faster, and related demands for improving process cycle time, first-time quality, and coordination across organizational units world wide, while reducing costs, makes improvement a constant focus.

The Bootstrap Institute has targeted collaborative knowledge work as a high-leverage and strategic first step for aggressive improvement. Distributed teams that can coordinate their work online using highly evolved tools and methods would be increasingly faster and smarter at identifying needs and opportunities, designing and deploying solutions, and incorporating lessons learned.

Applying these core capabilities in both the product cycle and the improvement cycle of the enterprise offers compounded leverage for bootstrapping organizations into the 21st century.

"Improving product cycle time and quality is a high priority...
...Improving the improvement cycle will be just as critical
to an organization's survival and success."

- Dr. Douglas Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute Director

These capabilities also provide a powerful infrastructure in which to integrate and support other key improvement efforts, such as total quality, program management, enterprise integration, concurrent engineering, CASE, groupware, organizational learning, organizational memory, CALS, and integrated info-system architectures.

Through R&D;, consulting, seminars, publications, and joint exploration, the Bootstrap Institute offers a comprehensive set of strategies and supporting services for creating high-performance organizations - for bootstrapping your organization into the 21st century.