Core initiatives
The current core initiatives of the Doug Engelbart Institute include clarifying Doug's message, putting vision to practice, and historical preservation.
About Our ProjectsProjects of the Doug Engelbart Institute are aimed at facilitating the advancement of Collective IQ – the collective ability of organizations and societies to effectively address complex, urgent challenges.
It is our greatest hope that, as the problems in our world grow exponentially more complex and urgent, our Collective IQ capability can be advanced at a surpassing rate, and be applied to meet the ever pressing challenges in our communities, organizations, nations, and planet.
Framing the Question
It bears special note that the strategic approach we advocate originally served as the catalyst for the prolifery of breakthrough innovations that came pouring out of Doug's lab in the 1960s and '70s, probably more breakthroughs than any other lab in the history of computing before or since. He designed it into his lab. He began with the question (paraphrased) "How can we dramatically improve how we work together to solve important problems?" which led directly to the more challenging question "How can we accelerate this innovation so we can solve more problems sooner and more effectively?". We invite you to approach our projects (and yours) along the same lines:
- How do you foster and accelerate innovation within and across organizations?
- How do you network the stakeholders?
- How do you capture, catalyze and organize the collective brainpower to optimize innovation?
- What kinds of tools and practices would help raise your collective effectiveness?
- How do you keep innovating the above, actively increasing your network's effectiveness, leveraging the collective IQ?
- What if you could tap in to an innovation network that was focused on innovating innovation networks?