Product Stage: Brief & free on-line version of the Business e-Coach at 1000ventures.com, the core component of Ten³ sustainable competitive advantage,  services more than 2,000 people from more than 70 countries every day. Subscription-based full version of the Business e-Coach has been launched.

Development of the global network of Ten³ portals has been initiated.

We are open to various types of partnerships. Do contact us.

Vadim Kotelnikov

http://www.1000ventures.com/vk.html

Ten³ - a Global Network of Virtual Offices for Innovative Firms

Ten³ (Technology e-ncubate, e-nnovate, e-nvest) presents the new generation of the Internet-based business services aiming at developing into a global web of virtual business centers. It contains a four-in-one business support tool: business coach × business information source × business communication media × project development workspace.

Why Ten³?

We are leaving in the new era of globalization and systemic innovation where new products and services are emerging from complex interactions of  and cross-pollination of ideas among many individuals, organizations and environmental factors (see slide show). Innovation is not divisible any more - "good in parts" is no good at all.

Though Internet can play a crucial role in this new era, its potential is largely underutilized. Internet is a good library, but a poor librarian. It is a valuable resource for business people who

1. have enough time to search through Internet, and

2. know precisely what they are looking for.

However, in today's rapidly changing business environment and emerging Information Overflow Syndrome

1. time becomes increasingly precious and scarce resource, and

2. venturing into rapidly growing jungles of unknown requires rather fast and pro-active guiding and risk warning than an rich choice of reference materials.

Finally, winning innovative solutions are inspired and developed in the process of cross-pollination of ideas, rather than narrowly focused search. Facing these challenges, Internet can play much more proactive role than that of a searchable depository of information. Internet deserved promotion and can assume the role of an inspiring guide to the minds looking for innovative ideas. But why it is not happening?

The first main barrier is strict division of jobs between the content providers and the information technology (IT) specialists. Content providers have poor knowledge about the range of IT and Web design instruments that could be employed to add value to their material. IT professionals, on their part, have insufficient understanding of the content to suggest innovative IT and web design solutions that would enhance the message.

The second barrier is the lack of cross-pollination of ideas among the content providers themselves. They are good experts in their respective sectors. There is no systematic cross-sectoral exchanges among these experts, however, that would enable them to synergize their ideas and generate systemic solutions on a continuous basis.

How Ten³ Managed to Overcome these Barriers?

There is no simple answer to this question. The portal development belongs to the era of systemic innovation where knowledge, technology, people, and processes are integral parts of a unique winning combination. The underlying secret of Ten³ success is that the prototype of the Web portal - its concept, content, architectural design and linkage matrix - was designed and implemented by a cross-functional team of cross-functional individuals. It was not outsourced to deeply but narrowly specialized Web-masters at the concept stage, which is a usual practice. Remember the motto of systemic innovation: "good in parts is no good at all"? We too! Thus, the prototype was developed by an international team of multi-talented business development experts who have good knowledge in the field of information technology and learnt the ABC of Web design for the purpose. The communication gap between business development experts and web masters was thus significantly narrowed to allow more effective cross-pollination of ideas and co-inventing. The working prototype is now ready for upgrading by IT professionals to the state-of-the-art stage.