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Programs and Services

Whether you are just embarking on a scouting mission, or ready to launch a full bootstrapping program, looking for someone to work with your management on hot-button issues, or simply looking for a motivational speaker for your next event, the Bootstrap Institute offers a full range of programs and services to meet your needs.

• Presentations and Talks
• Bootstrap Seminar
• Bootstrap Expeditions
• Consulting
• Collaborative Alliances
• Research & Development
• Patent Research

"Engelbart has forever changed the way we do business in America."
- Coors American Ingenuity Award '91

"Engelbart's contribution to personal computing is almost inestimable."
- PC Mag. Lifetime Achievement Award '87

"I don't know what Silicon Valley will do when we run out of Doug's ideas."
- Computer Currents, Feb '90

Presentations and Talks

Bring Doug Engelbart's insights into your next industry conference or private event. Special arrangements can also be made for a half-day, full-day, or multi-day seminar at your own corporate facilities. Topics will be selected and tailored to the specific interests and concerns of your audience.

Sample Organizational Topics

• Creating High-Performance Organizations
• "Paradigm Shiftlessness"
• Re-Engineering & Organizational Learning
• Continuous Improvement Strategies and TQM
• "Improvement Cycle" Time and Quality
• "Human-Tool Co-Evolution"
• Advanced-Pilot "Outposts" on the New Frontier
• High-Performance Teams and HP Support Teams
• Boosting Your Organization's "Collective IQ"
• Knowledge Management and Repository Management
• Knowledge as a Tangible Asset
• High-Performance Knowledge Work
• Project Knowledge Cycle Time and Quality
• The "Concurrent Enterprise"

Sample Technical Topics

• Collaborative Hyperdocument Systems and the World Wide Web
• Groupware and Orgware
• Human-Computer Interaction
• A Future Information Systems Marketplace
• Interoperability-At What Level?
• Open, Integrated, Evolvable Architectures

Bootstrap Seminars

Boosting Collective IQ

This is a new seminar developed by Doug Engelbart around his "Bootstrap Paradigm Map", an animated guided tour through some of the critical paradigm shifts that organizations must go through in order to transform into high-performing organizations. Includes strategic approach, guiding principles, and new evolutionary practices. This can be a 2-hour, 4-hour, or all day seminar, depending on the needs and interests of the audience.

A Comprehensive Strategy for Bootstrapping Organizations into the 21st Century

This a 3-day management seminar developed by Doug Engelbart at Stanford University. This intensive program includes lecture, slides, movies, guest speakers, in-depth discussion, and convivial meals, with Engelbart's candid anecdotal experiences woven throughout.

Program Highlights

• New Paradigms: Stretching our perception of the rate, scale, and pervasiveness of change.

• Objective-High-Performance Organizations: For ever increasing speed, agility, precision, and vision.

• Collective IQ: Our first target is group knowledge work-how our organizations concurrently develop, integrate, and apply their knowledge within and across complex projects, including their ongoing dialog, intelligence collections, plans, reports, and other knowledge products.

• Open Hyperdocument Systems (OHS): To support high-performance knowledge work, our information system infrastructures must provide for hyperlinked, structured, multimedia documents, with object-level addressability, integrating hyperdocument email, online publishing, and groupware. These provisions must be built to open standards to support diverse distributed work groups, sharing interoperable hyperdocuments and sharing screens across organizational units, workstation platforms and application domains.

• Human-Tool Co-Evolution: Highly developed work methods must evolve hand in hand with the tools, via exploratory pilot outposts in diverse application areas.

• A-B-C's of Bootstrapping: Applied within any product cycle, and especially within the improvement cycle, these highly evolved knowledge-work tools and methods offer the point of greatest strategic leverage for the organization.

• Joining Forces: Close cooperation among end-user organizations, vendors, consultants, universities, and government institutions will be needed to define OHS requirements and standards, and to share the cost and risks of advanced exploration and early deployment of an OHS within complex knowledge-intensive projects.

• Bootstrapping Your Organization: Practical steps for cost-effective launching and implementation.

Who Should Attend?

• total quality
• process improvement
• reengineering
• knowledge management
• technology transfer
• program management
• CASE, CALS, CA~
• enterprise integration
• concurrent engineering
• telecommuting
• integrated architectures
• online document delivery
• organizational learning

Bootstrap Expeditions

Companies interested in seriously assessing or testing these strategies can enroll in a Bootstrap Expedition. This unique program, led by Engelbart and his crew, explores the uncharted frontier of high-performance knowledge work. The entire Expedition is conducted online in an advanced pilot environment. The Expedition Team members experience first-hand the human-tool requirements for supporting wide-area collaboration online. Paradigm shifts, human-tool co-evolution, and special deployment strategies are an integral part of the program. This intensive hands-on Bootstrap Expedition represents a cost-effective high-leverage vehicle for exploration and assessment.

Consulting

Improvement Strategies: Doug Engelbart will work with your strategic planners on a comprehensive vision and pragmatic investment strategy for your company's long-term internal improvement program.

Information Systems Design: Doug Engelbart will work with your advanced research developers and product marketing managers on a long-term vision of high-leverage products and services, as well as giving valuable design-review feedback on current R&D; efforts.

End-User Integration: Doug Engelbart will work with your info-systems and work-process implementers on a long-term vendor-independent vision, including usage requirements, distributed integrated architectures, and new strategies for pilot implementation and deployment.

Collaborative Alliances

The Bootstrap Institute is working closely with industry and government to launch a collaborative implementation of these strategic concepts. This Alliance will:

• explore and define new, more powerful paradigms for knowledge work, and for organizational improvement;
• develop OHS prototypes suitable for supporting exploration within a multitude of application domains;
• launch advanced exploratory pilots in which to accelerate the co-evolution of OHS tools and best practices;
• share results, including requirements, deployment strategies, lessons learned, handbooks, and research data;
• work closely with the vendor/supplier community to commercialize the results.

Research & Development

The Bootstrap Institute has recently been funded for some exciting R&D; work, including developing a graphical user interface for Augment (first-generation OHS), porting Augment onto a UNIX server, and developing scenario-based demonstrations of applicability in distributed collaborative software engineering, as well as command and control. We are in parallel proposing to build a next-generation OHS prototype as an exploratory vehicle for participating organizations to launch a variety of pilot applications, as well as expanding our R&D; efforts into best practices for online knowledge work, and developing high-performance teams.

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