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Discovery Fuel’s Online Collaboration Tools

Are you going broke sending people all over the planet in a struggling economy? Well then, something to strongly consider is using the latest in online collaboration tools (see the ‘cool-tool’ links below) for bringing your teams together virtually to get work done – from where ever they are on the planet!

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Discovery Fuel’s ONLINE Colabs provide collaborative solutions, including facilitated workshops and guided group design sessions. We utilize the latest web-based tools and technologies (such as Adobe Connect) empowering your group to meet, converse, share, plan, and work together on ‘virtually’ any project in both real-time and asynchronously – from anywhere in the world.

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Virtual Teams and Tools

One of our specialties is transforming new ventures and distant relationships into strategic partnerships and sustainable innovations, all while cutting your costs and shrinking your environmental footprint! Our unique ‘Colab’ methodology has taken the best concepts from face-to-face facilitated collaboration processes and leap-frogged them into an unprecedented ‘virtual’ environment that allows your teams to meet tangible objectives in less time, with more effectiveness, and with less money out of your pocket.

What Is a “Virtual” CoLab?

It’s how we help you innovate  . . .

Our unique CoLab methodology works at any stage of company or project development, whether you’re a start-up or a mature company, from vision to strategy. All done collaboratively online in a web-based environment! This allows you to accomplish more in less time, at a fraction of typical “real world” costs.

A creative, collaborative, extremely productive ONLINE process which aids:

  • Group Discovery
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  • Project Planning
  • Product Design
  • Company Strategy

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We will help you:

  • Improve collaboration
  • Identify company vision
  • Align core values
  • Set strategic goals
  • Build group action plans
  • Generate individual accountability
  • Design processes that accelerate solution
  • Achieve marketable results

Colabs help build company capacity for generating social innovation.

Hmmmmm – What does this mean?

Well, not everybody has the expertise to manage group meetings or coordinate design efforts on their own. Colab services guide (facilitate) you in developing highly creative solutions to complex technical or organizational problems. Colabs focus on developing effective design environments and facilitated processes that direct your team, classroom, or company toward creative ways to solve problems. All the while, leveraging your existing talent in an effort to maximize innovation throughout your entire company. The bottom line? Better decisions, resulting in more profits with a sustainable and distinct advantage over your competition.

Use the Power of Online Tool Technologies

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There is a growing trend toward staying home to save a buck, be with family more, reduce pollution from travel, and cut company expenses, WITHOUT loosing productivity. Just take a look at this article about collaboration, which I posted on our D.F. blog. Note the companies listed that are making big stuff happen using online collaboration. Truly, the wave of the future is here now and its simplifying our lives, while still allowing us to get lots done – collaboratively. The article’s data suggests that more is getting produced and sold in dramatically less time by working online. Geeeeez, it’s almost scary. It enough to make you wonder what in the world have we created with this whole internet thing. Well, I tell you this much: I for one am very excited about it. How about you?

CLICK on the above dynamic mind map to see the latest in online tool recommendations via a world-wide collaboration process. All tools listed are required to be: (1) used for live collaboration, (2) team-work oriented tools, (3) must be free or low-cost solutions

As you may know by now, Discovery Fuel has ‘discovered’ some very interesting approaches to collaborating. That is, bringing people together to get things done more effectively, more creatively, and (God forbid!) actually more happily. Now, we are moving some of these concepts into the virtual space and applying tools that can fulfill your custom needs.

Even for us, choosing tools is a daunting task. No actually, it’s completely overwhelming! Did you know that there are over 3,000 collaboration tools online right now? And new ones are showing up almost every day! For example, check out this awesome tools list we found that’s being managed by a UK research institute. Everything you’ll ever need to become an online collaboration tools guru is here, with many of the tools being free. But here at Discovery Fuel, we are only interested in a tool if it fits certain human behavior patterns for getting together and collaborating. We are more interested in their ability to support ‘interaction’ than to manage ‘information’ (although that’s important too). So, we have some principles that we abide by when choosing tools. This helps us (and you!) to narrow down the rapidly growing conglomerate of tools . We pick out KISS (Keep It Stupid Simple) tools, knowing that behind anything that seems simple there is usually a ton of complexity behind it.

Below are a couple tools that will help you to get our point. Click on the links and try ‘em out. But the tools themselves are not enough. So, we are combining various tools like these into ‘group process suites’ that will help you to move through the design of virtually anything – from values to brainstorming to strategy to project management. First, check out one of the main tools we use to facilitate our clients online design collaborations – it’s called Group Mind Express. Want more … ?

Check out these ‘cool-tool’ open source resources for online collaboration …

  • Best Online Collaboration Tools Map
  • Online Collaboration and Tools News
  • 3,000 Researched & Categorized Online Tools Compendium
  • Robin Good’s Social Media Insights and Tools Reviews
  • Online Technologies for ‘Communities of Practice‘

Make online meetings easy and successful

Believe me, there is lots to consider when you decide to use online collaboration, and we’re here to help ease your struggles. What we offer is unique in the marketplace and way beyond just a tools offering. Because we’re not just about tools. We’re more about designing whole-system solutions that allow you to collaborate more effectively and generate sustainable, innovative results.

So contact Discovery Fuel today, and prepare for your next online team meeting, online design collaboration, virtual strategic planning, or green conference event ! !

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Studies on Communication Problems and Best Practices in Outsourcing

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Effective communication plays a major role in the world of outsourcing where folk with different nationalities, culture, and interests work in partnership to achieve their business goals. Even though it is now simple and convenient to talk to folk overseas, thanks to sophisticated technology, issues are still being encountered because communication best practices are usually [...]

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Collaboration “IS” the New Government

My twine.com webbed a good one today. Although extremely simple, this video triggered a BIG insight for me.
Imagine a new definition of government. Rather than provider of fixes, it becomes a convener of ‘we the people’ and we generate our own solutions. This act shifts a STATIC ‘government’ institution into a DYNAMIC ‘governance’ system. The [...]

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Sustainability as Whole-System Catalyst to New Forms of Innovation
Since the concept of ’sustainability’ is feathered into most future forms of innovation, I’d like to suggest a few pages below that list concepts of “Sustainable Innovation”.

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http://discoveryfuel.com/what-is-sustainable-innovation/
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Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity’s creative process.

Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity’s creative process. It is too often used to describe the entire process of manifestation. Actually, INNOVATION is sandwiched between INSPIRATION and INVENTION. This more (w)holistically describes a full creative cycle.
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