About BI 0

Our Niche 1

Our mission is to help organizations transform into high-performance organizations. We target both the organization's Collective IQ and its capacity to improve as the points of greatest leverage for continuing survival and success. Following a 3-point strategy, we address the improvement strategies, enabling collaborative technologies, and co-evolving associated best practices. We offer a comprehensive strategic approach, as well as a range of services, for bootstrapping organizations into the 21st century. 1B

We are currently forming an alliance of stakeholders - including companies, improvement initiatives, consortia, universities, government institutions, communities, regions, and whole nations - joining forces to address this grand challenge. 1C



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Is your company poised and fit, ready to master the
unprecedented challenges of the next decade, and beyond? 1A

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Who We Are 2

We are Doug Engelbart and partner/daughter Christina Engelbart, operating as an extended virtual organization which includes collaborators, an Advisory Council (now being formed), and a small support staff of primarily telecommuters. We incorporated in 1988 as a California corporation, but operate more like a non-profit institute in our quest to form strategic alliances aimed at dramatically improving organizations and society at large. We accomplish this through our collaborative Alliance Program, as well as through our R&D projects, management seminars and expeditions, consulting, speaking, and publishing (see What We Do and Publications). Our work is funded primarily through government R&D contracts and Alliance sponsors. 2A

Our Website 3

The purpose of this website is to inform people about BI, to make Doug Engelbart's seminal work broadly accessible, to foster dialog and learning around "boosting Collective IQ" principles and practices, to support collaborative alliances, and to jointly explore how we can boost our Collective IQ. See About Our Website for more details on content, organization, look and feel, future plans, etc. 3A

Facilities 4

Our office space is graciously donated by Logitech, largest manufacturer of the computer mouse and other "senseware", based a long-standing relationship with BI Director Doug Engelbart, who invented the mouse. Sun Microsystems has donated servers and workstations in support of the Alliance Program and of our collaborative web R&D 4A

How to Reach Us 5

We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area about 25 minutes due east of Palo Alto/Stanford University, right across the Bay in Fremont. See also Directions to BI, and/or a Yahoo! area/street map. 5A
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