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How we can help
Big ideas can occasionally need a boost of energy to move to activation stage. Our teams can provide that additional source of resources, experience and enthusiasm that enables and accelerates the trip from concept to completion. Much of our value lies in helping organizations quickly envision the universe of applications for their innovations and providing a true understanding of the tools/people needed to give form to that innovation. Our purpose and processes are focused on collaborating on real-world plans that bring to life the ideas that become the transformational force for your organization.
Ideas
Systems
Knowledge
Using subject matter expertise gained from diverse and extensive experience, our teams can dramatically accelerate knowledge gain for our clients, providing deliverables in understandable language and actionable plans that leverage and apply this new knowledge awareness. Our commitment to and enthusiasm for continuous learning internally is part of how we help build success in our client’s applied knowledge efforts. We can help nurture valuable, untapped internal knowledge sources and emphasize “cross pollination” of that resource, taking good ideas and seeing where they apply across the organization.
Great companies with great ideas
We enjoy long term relationships with proven, incredibly capable companies leading their industries in quality and client satisfaction. These partnerships are driven by years of shared commitment to delivering consistent, measurable value to our clients. By leveraging their investments in everything from product development to end-user training, our clients gain access to a vast array of technologies, industry expertise and real-world tools usable for almost any size application. These organizations offer updated fresh guidance on what their solutions consist of, better helping us to know what innovation is available to our clients and providing a piece of the foundation for our consulting.
Advisory Group
Many of our capabilities evolve around the team we have gathered to assist in idea generation and problem solving for each of our client’s specific challenges, enhancing our value and providing a depth of positive experience and world class guidance that is difficult to find assembled anywhere.
News That Got Our Attention…
A New Crop Of Farmers Is Helping Hawaii Grow More Food
This article brings home the continually growing importance of supply chain problems (definitely to our Hawaiian contingent). Silicon chips are highly missed during this present shortage to be sure, but food makes the realities of supply chain problems relatable to practically everyone.
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021
There were lots of top tech lists released early last year, we thought this one was particularly salient. Take a look and let us know what you think and add your thoughts on which ones they may have missed.
The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think with Analogies
We found this article kind of compelling and wanted to share. Interesting to avoid communicating using analogies. It is harder than you think! It also occurred to us how analogies seem to be used throughout cultures, across generational gaps and are used by everyone almost regardless of who or where they are. The article suggests that analogies are a critical key to AI and provides in depth details on how analogy thinking fits in with other elements of AI.