EDream
An eDream is a dream or big idea that benefits from an 'e' (enablement) framework to successfully achieve it. An enablement Framework is the management of complexity (people, knowledge, funding, personal needs), risk and enduring effort required to make an eDream happen.
- Complexity - multiple people, various knowledge, funding and personal needs to find an intersection within the competing interests
- Risk - time, money, reputations, relationships, job, etc.
- Enduring Effort - potentially multiple years, with discipline and grit
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) eDream. It may not seem like there is much in common with a dream to graduate from college, a big idea for a cancer cure and a breakthrough innovation like Apple's iPhone. Yet they each have similar eDream Components, Enablement Components and require execution to make them happen.
Castellina in Tuscany, Italy and New York are two entirely different destinations with little in common. Yet evaluating whether it is a good idea (eDream Insight) to go there and what it would take to get there (Enablement Insight), may be similar. Travel to these destinations may require a different mix of planes, trains and automobiles, yet have a similar execution process to effectively manage the trip from point A to point B.
Great ideas or aha moments are very important. Yet 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 (eDream Insight), how to make it happen (Enablement Insight) and how to effectively manage (Development Tracks) making it happen.
eDream Components
eDream Components are the major 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
