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Vision & Mission 1 Programs & Services 2 Alliance Program 3 Seminars 4 Expeditions 5 Research & Development 6 Talks 7 Consulting 8 Patent Disputes 9 How to Reach Us 10

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

Programs & Services 2

The Bootstrap Institute offers collaborative programs and seminars by Doug Engelbart and his staff, aimed at developing high-performance organizations, teams, and individuals. Together we explore strategy, technologies, and processes of future work environments, including: 2A

• Collaboration 2A1

• Knowledge Management 2A2

• Virtual Teaming 2A3

• Continuous Improvement and Learning 2A4

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 services to meet your needs. 2B



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"Engelbart's contribution to personal computing is almost inestimable."
        - PC Magazine 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

"Work he did 25 years ago is still at the cutting edge . . .
  and his organizational ideas are at least as profound."
        - Alan Kay in Leader to Leader, Sep '96 2C




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Alliance Program 3

Now accepting new members! The Bootstrap Alliance is a new broad-based cooperative dedicated to the improvement of individual, team, and organizational performance in collaborative settings. Participants in the Alliance will find a forum to test new concepts and learn with and from peers and leading innovators who span across industry, government, academic, and public interest sectors. As active participants, members will enhance their own capabilities in knowledge management, collaboration, virtual teaming, and the processes for continuous improvement and learning. 3A

Members will not only benefit from other's experiences, but they will also add to the Alliance's intellectual capital. Participants will learn best practices from thought leaders and collaborate on common issues, challenges, and strategies, while sharing and improving upon the lessons learned. Programs will be designed from the start to gain from synergy with evolving information technologies. Alliance activities will benefit from jointly developed knowledge bases, active online discussions, as well as face-to-face and virtual meetings. 3B

Current participants now include leading organizations such as Sun Microsystems, Netscape Communications, Educational Testing Service, General Services Administration, NTT Labs, Institute for the Future, Morino Institute, and the the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities. Among the early initiatives are collaborative inter/intranet technology template, evolutionary knowledge management, customer focus, and commercial awareness. 3C

Seminars 4

Boosting Collective IQ with Douglas Engelbart management seminar. How do you promote your organization's success when faced with the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century? Join Doug Engelbart, the foremost collaboration technology and strategic improvement leader, at a seminar on enhanced methods for collaboration, knowledge management, virtual teaming, and continuous learning and improvement. Implementation of his lessons will give your organization a competitive edge and place it on the fast track to dramatically higher performance. In addition, learn more about The Bootstrap Alliance, a cooperative now launching with Sun, Netscape, Educational Testing Service, and others. This can be a 2-hour, 4-hour, or all day seminar, depending on the needs and interests of the audience. 4A
Next seminar: March 8 in the San Francisco Bay Area

A Comprehensive Strategy for Bootstrapping Organizations into the 21st Century is a 3-day management seminar developed by Doug Engelbart at Stanford University. This intensive program builds on his "Bootstrap Paradigm Map", including detailed lecture, slides, demos, movies, guest speakers, in-depth discussion, and convivial meals, with Engelbart's candid anecdotal experiences woven throughout. 4B

Expeditions 5

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. 5A

Research & Development 6

The Bootstrap Institute is developing a graphical user interface and browser for AUGMENT (our first-generation OHS), porting Augment onto a Sun server, and developing scenario-based demonstrations of applicability in distributed collaborative software engineering, program management, education, and 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 collaborative knowledge work, and developing high-performance teams as prototype high-performance organizations. 6A

For further information on OHS and AUGMENT please see: 6B



• About the Prototype Environment 6B1
• Open Hyperdocument Systems
• Collaboration Provisions in AUGMENT
• Authorship Provisions in AUGMENT

Talks 7

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. 7A

Topic Highlights 7B

Organizational 7B1

• Breaking through "Paradigm Shiftlessness" 7B1A
• Creating High-Performance Individuals, Teams, and Organizations 7B1B
• Beyond Process Re-Engineering and Organizational Learning 7B1C
• Beyond Continuous Improvement and TQM 7B1D
• Beyond Core Business Competencies 7B1E
• Improving "Improvement Cycle" Time and Quality 7B1F
• Leveraging your "Improvement Infrastructure" 7B1G
• "Human-Tool Co-Evolution" 7B1H
• Building "Outposts" on the Knowledge-Age "Frontier" 7B1I
• Boosting your Organization's "Collective IQ" 7B1J
• "Repository" and "knowledge management" redefined 7B1K
• High-Performance Knowledge Work 7B1L
• Project Knowledge Cycle Time and Quality 7B1M
• Creating a "Concurrent Enterprise" 7B1N

  Technical 7B2

• Enabling technologies for high-performance organizations 7B2A
• Internet and Intranets - what are we aiming for? 7B2B
• Collaborative Hypermedia and the World Wide Web 7B2C
• Groupware and Orgware 7B2D
• Human-Computer Interaction 7B2E
• A Future Information Systems Marketplace 7B2F
• Interoperability - l 7B2G
• Open, Integrated, Evolvable Architectures 7B2H

See also seminar brochures on Who Should Attend? and Program Highlights 7B3

Consulting 8

Improvement Strategies: Doug Engelbart will work with your strategic planners on a comprehensive vision and pragmatic approach for your company's long-term internal improvement program. 8A

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. 8B

End-User Integration: Doug Engelbart will work with your info-systems and work-process implementers on a long-term vendor-independent vision, including organizational requirements, scenarios of the high-perfromance work environment, distributed integrated architectures, new strategies for tool-process co-evolution, pilot implementation and deployment, and practical investment criteria and staging for the above. 8C

Patent Disputes 9

If you are involved in a patent dispute involving claims on early digital technology and associated software, or wishing to guard against such a patent dispute, Doug Engelbart represents a unique and powerful asset. Dr. Engelbart has won numerous awards for his pioneering work in computing dating clear back to 1955, and he has in-depth first-hand knowledge of much of the emerging digital technology since the beginning. "If he wasn't doing it himself, he knows who was and/or whether it would have been feasible at the time". In addition he has a significant hardcopy and online archive from his own seminal work. See Patent Consulting for details. 9A

How to Reach Us 10

For more information, please contact Bootstrap Institute. 10A

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