Changing the Way People Come Together to Get Things Done
Join. Get involved. Deliver outcomes.
Ideas-Shared gives individuals, informal groups and organisations a common way to participate around the things they want to change, improve, solve, create, protect, stop or achieve.
Personal. Professional. Societal.
From something affecting one person or organisation to underlying conditions affecting communities, industries or society, people can choose what matters to them, bring what they can contribute, find what they need and organise with others to get things done.
The proposition is simple. The potential comes from its breadth and scale.
Participate in What Matters
Every day, people encounter ambitions, ideas, frustrations, problems, questions, opportunities and conditions they would like to do something about.
Some we can deal with ourselves.
Many require knowledge, capabilities, resources, relationships or influence we don’t possess alone.
At the same time, individuals, informal groups and organisations everywhere possess exactly those things.
Ideas-Shared helps bring them together.
Share an idea. Raise a problem. Ask a question. Offer help. Seek help. Challenge an assumption. Make others aware. Develop a solution. Build a team. Organise practical work. Contribute to something somebody else has started.
You choose what matters, where you participate and what you contribute.
Personal. Professional. Societal.
Ideas-Shared isn’t built around one cause, profession, organisation, community or type of ambition.
It can be used across our personal lives, work and careers, business, finance, communities, politics, the economy, society, culture, the environment and countless specialist interests and niches.
The focus can be incredibly narrow or extraordinarily broad.
A few people might organise around a personal or local problem. Individuals, informal groups and organisations might combine capabilities around a business or professional opportunity. Communities might organise around conditions affecting them. Large numbers of people and organisations could participate around significant societal challenges.
They don’t all need to agree. They don’t all need to participate in everything.
They choose where to get involved.
The Power Comes From Participation
Every participant brings something different: knowledge, experience, ideas, capabilities, resources, relationships, opportunities or influence.
When individuals, informal groups and organisations organise around what matters, they can combine those capabilities to achieve things they may not be able to achieve alone.
As participation grows, so does the potential pool of capability available to everyone.
Participation unlocks possibility. Organised participation creates capability. Scale creates leverage.
That leverage can help us achieve better personal and professional outcomes, strengthen organisations and communities, and increase our ability to change the underlying conditions affecting society.
This is the potential of Ideas-Shared.
One Idea. A Growing Ecosystem
Ideas-Shared provides different environments for different forms of participation, built around the same underlying principle: help people come together around what matters and get things done.
Global Hub
An open participation network for individuals, informal groups and organisations. Bring what matters to you, discover what matters to others and find your place.
Private Hubs
Dedicated participation and delivery environments for organisations, communities, programmes and other groups that want to organise participation around their own ambitions and outcomes.
Ideas-Shared Global Ltd
Discover the company, thinking, methodology and wider ambition behind Ideas-Shared.
Ideas-Shared Foundation
Extending the opportunity to participate and helping more people and communities improve the conditions that matter to them.
The Architect
Explore Bob Thompson’s writing, research and the journey behind the development of Ideas-Shared.
What Could We Achieve Together?
The world already contains extraordinary amounts of human knowledge, experience, creativity, capability, resources and influence.
Much of it remains disconnected from the ambitions, problems and opportunities where it could make a difference.
Ideas-Shared provides a way to change that.
Not by telling people what should matter.
Not by expecting everybody to agree.
But by giving people and organisations a practical way to choose to participate, find one another, organise and act.
From the smallest personal ambition to some of the most difficult conditions affecting society:
Join. Get involved. Deliver outcomes.
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