EDream
An eDream is a dream, big idea or breakthrough innovation in the enablement process (evaluation and/or trying to make happen). An eDream requires evaluation (Insight) to determine if it's a good idea and often a complex execution process enablement involving the following components to be successful:
- People - beneficiaries, aspirers, stakeholders, supporters, providers and social circles
- Knowledge - Communities (Industries, Organizations, etc.) and Idea Spaces (Functional Knowledge, Domain Knowledge, etc.)
- Plan - a multiyear plan or a very concerted plan over 6 to 12 months
- Resources and Funding - time, money and other sacrifices for an unknown outcome
- Enduring Grit - perseverance and passion for long-term goals, the confidence to take risks
It may not seem like a dream to graduate from college, a big idea for a cancer cure and a breakthrough innovation like Apple's iPhone have much in common. Yet they each have a fundamental Enablement process to make them happen.
Castellina in Tuscany, Italy and New York are two entirely different destinations, yet the traveling process to get there using planes, automobiles and GPS devices may be the same. Like travel, Enablement is the process of getting from point A to point B.
Great ideas or aha moments are very important. Yet these ideas get all the fanfare while being as little as 1% of the process. This site provides a process framework to the other 99%, Enablement. It offers insight into the People, Knowledge, Plan, Resources and Enduring Grit to make almost anything happen.
Dream
A dream is a personal goal, vision or desired outcome that improves personal prosperity and/or prosperity of others. Achieving it requires risk, a dedicated multi-year effort, engaging and relating to multiple people, communities and idea spaces.
Big Idea
A big idea is an idea that could produce new benefits and/or knowledge that improves prosperity of multiple people. Achieving it requires risk, dedicated multiyear complex plan, engaging and relating to multiple people, communities and idea spaces.
Breakthrough Innovation
A breakthrough innovation is new knowledge or innovation that produces new prosperity for multiple people. It requires learning, understanding and introducing something new in one or all of the following:
- Problem/UnMet Need - new way to addresses a problem or unmet need not being addressed or it addresses it in a new way.
- Beneficiaries (or customer) - addresses beneficiaries not being addressed or addressed in a new way
- Communications (or Marketing) - requires a new way to be communicated or to an entirely new group
- Solution (or Product/Service) - a new solution that is designed, developed and built a new way
- Operational (or Business Model) - a new operational way to sustain a solution
When the iPhone, Kindle and Netflix streaming videos were each introduced in 2007, it was a result of new learning and understanding of the five components above by Apple, Amazon and Netflix. When they launched their revised versions of these products, these were sustaining innovations as they improved on each of the 5 components rather than introducing something entirely new.
