EDream
An eDream is a dream or complex goals with meaningful aspirations or missions that require managing risk, complexity, and many iterations over multiple years to achieve them. They require an enablement process to achieve them.
An eDream can be a destination (i.e., graduate from college, open a restaurant, cure cancer) or journey (i.e., be a great mother, be a successful restaurateur, manage a chronic health condition). While a dream to graduate from college and a big idea for a cancer cure may have little in common, they have similar eDream and Enablement components and process to make them happen.
The following are the components of the eDream that must be addressed and aligned for it to be viable.
- What is the purpose of the eDream? - Mission
- Who is/are pursuing the eDream? - Aspirer(s)
- Why does the mission need to be achieved? - Problem/Unmet Needs
- Who will benefit from the mission being achieved and the problem/unmet needs being addressed? - Beneficiaries
- How will the mission be achieved and problem/unmet needs be addressed? - Solution
- How will the beneficiaries become aware of the solution that addresses their problem/unmet needs? - Communication
- How will the solution become viable and sustainable? - Operational
The eDream Snapshot provides an overview of the eDream.
The eDream components are initially evaluated to determine whether the eDream is a good idea. Once it is understood how each eDream component needs to be addressed, it is determined whether there is a way to minimally address all eDream components at the same time which is called eDream Intersection. The eDream components will evolve and iterate many times during the execution as new information is learned. The way in which each eDream component iterates must still ensure an eDream Intersection.
Castellina in Tuscany, Italy and New York are two entirely different destinations with little in common. Yet evaluating whether it is a good idea to go there and what it would take to get there, may be similar. Travel to these destinations may require a different mix of planes, trains and automobiles, yet have a similar process to effectively manage the trip from point A to point B.
Great ideas or aha moments can be very important. While these ideas get all the fanfare, they represent as little as 1% of the process to make them happen. This site provides a framework to evaluate whether an eDream is a good idea, how to make it happen and how to effectively manage making it happen.
An overview of the eDream is communicated with the eDream Snapshot, Enablement Snapshot and Executive Summary.
