EDream
An eDream is a dream or big idea that needs an 'e' (enablement) process to achieve it. It requires managing:
- Risk - time, money, reputations, relationships, job and personal well-being.
- Complexity - finding an intersection of competing interests within multiple people, areas of knowledge, funding sources and personal needs.
- People - decision makers, contributors, supporters and others impacted such as family, friends, employer, colleagues, teachers, classmates, etc.
- Multiple Years - discipline, enduring grit, fitting it in with life, securing knowledge and resources, multiple iterations of solutions, approaches and plan to get it right
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). It may not seem like there is much in common between a dream to graduate from college and a big idea for a cancer cure, yet they each have similar eDream and Enablement components and development process 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 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 (eDream Insight), how to make it happen (Enablement Insight) and how to effectively manage (Development Tracks) making it happen.
