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Facts:
ManyWorlds Inc., was founded in 1998 by Steven Flinn and
Naomi Moneypenny, privately held. No VC funding (and we
like it that way!).
Sustained record of high double digit growth year on
year, multi-million dollar revenues.
Sponsors
ManyWorlds.com - the knowledge network for business
thought leadership, receives in excess of 100,000
visitors a month.
Focus only on growth processes in organizations
including research & development, strategic marketing,
innovation and strategy planning.
Patent-pending revolutionary software for managing
online knowledge networks that adapt.
Clients include: BearingPoint (formerly KPMG
Consulting), Cisco Systems, Royal Dutch/Shell and many
leading Fortune 100 companies.
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Contact:
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thinking in: Innovation, Strategy, Business Futures,
Growth, the consulting/professional services industry,
online knowledge networks for collaboration & client
relationships and other global enterprise management &
strategy issues. Contact Cyrene Banerjee on 832 242
3508 or at this
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Very fast turnaround on quotes & opinions. We
understand your deadlines - our business is content too!
If we're not the right people to talk with, we'll know
someone who is.
Our experts have been quoted/mentioned in a wide
variety of sources including the Wall Street Journal
Online, Line56, Houston Business Journal & best-selling
management books
Read some of our thought leadership
here
Press Releases:
Busy Executives Get Personalized Recommendations for
Business Thought Leadership Online (Houston, TX --
November 19, 2003)
ManyWorlds Introduces Thought Leader Network (Houston,
TX -- December 4, 2002)
Real-time Measurement of Business Management Topic and
Author Popularity (Houston, TX -- June 7th 2002)
ManyWorlds Announces Global Creativity Studio (Houston,
TX -- April 26,2002)
ManyWorlds
Announces Research Report on Why the Internet Market
Crashed (Houston, TX -- May 14, 2001)
ManyWorlds Announces
Proposed Solution to the Origins of Music (Houston,
TX -- February 14, 2001)
ManyWorlds
Announces Breakthrough in Business Strategy: The
StrategySpace Model (Houston, TX -- February 7, 2001 )
ManyWorlds Announces Elite Business Strategy
Consultation Over The Internet (Houston, TX -- October
11, 2000 )
ManyWorlds Announces
Customized Business Strategy E-Learning Solutions
(Houston, TX -- May 04, 2000)
ManyWorlds Announces the
World's Premier Business Strategy Portal (Houston, TX --
March 15, 2000)
Busy Executives Get Personalized Recommendations for
Business Thought Leadership Online
HOUSTON, TX -- 11/19/2003 -- ManyWorlds.com takes
another step to help executives navigate the latest in
business thinking: personalized recommendations that
become increasingly relevant over time. By learning from
users' profiles and usage patterns, the knowledge
environment recommends targeted information relevant to
what executives are currently looking at.
"Currently, there's a lot of buzz about search engines,
but what people really want are recommendations," says
ManyWorlds, Inc.'s CEO, Steven Flinn. "People are
astonished by the effectiveness of highly personalized
recommendations which are delivered in real-time and
continue to improve with use. Imagine it as an
insightful and eager guide that gets to know you and
wants to deliver the information you will need."
"The
beauty of the recommendation engine is its ability to
learn without any explicit user effort. The
sophisticated algorithms of our patent-pending
technology infer the preferences of communities,
community segments, and individuals from meticulous
analysis of usage behaviors in real-time," Flinn says.
The
structure of the software system makes it easy to apply
its capabilities to any Web-based application that
manages a substantial amount of information. Flinn says,
"We believe this functionality will quickly become table
stakes for any serious Web-based application."
About ManyWorlds.com
ManyWorlds.com is the knowledge network for business
thought leadership that enables executives to lead,
renew, and grow their organizations. The site provides
free access to expertly reviewed, high quality business
knowledge and exclusive thought leadership. See
www.manyworlds.com for more details. ManyWorlds.com is
sponsored by ManyWorlds, Inc.
About ManyWorlds, Inc.
ManyWorlds, Inc. specializes in helping leading
businesses grow. By combining advanced business strategy
research and advice with comprehensive content and
knowledge management solutions, ManyWorlds designs and
implements state-of-the art business growth processes.
Clients include Cisco Systems, BP, BearingPoint,
Microsoft and Pfizer. Headquartered in Houston, Texas,
ManyWorlds delivers value to companies all around the
world. See www.manyworlds.com for more details.
ManyWorlds Introduces Thought Leader Network
Houston, TX -- December 4, 2002 -- ManyWorlds makes it
easy for you to hear from some of the brightest leaders
in the business world. You can watch the trends from
different authors each month by logging onto
www.manyworlds.com. “We believe that these leading minds
represent the best in the business world today. We will
continue to modify the listings as the rankings on the
site change,” says Steve Flinn, CEO of ManyWorlds, Inc.
Some
of the most recent authors featured in the trends
section include:
· Adrian
Slywotzky, V.P., Mercer Management Consulting, Inc
· Bonnie
Nardi, Anthropologist, Agilent Technologies
· Dr.
Charles Lucier, Sr. V.P., Booz Allen Hamilton
· Clayton
Christensen, Harvard Business School
Flinn
believes the trends section is unique for two reasons.
“First, it provides both real-time and historical data
on the popularity of topical issues. But, importantly,
it also features a deeper level of analysis, exclusively
enabled by the knowledge network capabilities of our
software, such as the influence of a particular author
or single piece of work on the rest of the knowledge
network.”
Our
experts are available for an interview or to use as a
source in the future. Please check out our website at
manyworlds.com or contact Naomi Moneypenny at (832)
242-3508 to set up an interview.
Real-time
Measurement of Business Management Topic and Author
Popularity
Houston, TX -- June 7, 2002 -- ManyWorlds, Inc.
announces that its renowned www.manyworlds.com Internet
site will now measure in real-time the popularity of a
broad array of business topics, individual publications,
as well as business authors. The summary results will be
continuously displayed on the home page of
www.manyworlds.com.
"Our vast network of knowledge, spanning all strategic
business and IT categories, along with our tremendous
traffic volumes and our advanced tracking technologies,
enables us to uniquely provide a public indicator of the
shifts in popularity among strategic topics", said
ManyWorlds CEO Steve Flinn. "This will provide
executives, consultants, authors, and other thought
leaders with an invaluable source of information
regarding what is on the strategic agenda of executives
and thought leaders around the globe on a real-time
basis. Importantly, it will also enable a preview of
shifts in business trends before they become
mainstream".
www.manyworlds.com is the world's most comprehensive
knowledge base of strategic topics on business and
information technology. It contains over 3,500 items of
content, spanning nearly 70 topical areas, contributed
by over 2,000 authors.
About ManyWorlds
ManyWorlds specializes in helping leading businesses
grow. ManyWorlds’ clients are a “who’s who” of major
value creators, including Cisco Systems, BP, KPMG,
Microsoft, and Pfizer. ManyWorlds delivers to these and
other clients the world’s most advanced business
strategy advice and R&D, comprehensive content and
knowledge management solutions, and state-of-the process
design and implementation of business growth processes.
Headquartered in Houston, TX, ManyWorlds delivers value
to companies all around the world. See
www.manyworlds.com for more details.
ManyWorlds
Announces Global Business Creativity Studio
Houston, TX -- April 26, 2002 --
ManyWorlds, Inc. announces the opening of its Global
Business Creativity Studio at its headquarters in
Houston.
"Several comprehensive recent studies reinforce that
only strategic level innovation -- innovation at the
process and business model level -- can deliver
sustained, above average market returns. Our new
Business Creativity Studio is yet another example of how
ManyWorlds is developing the leading position in
delivering strategic innovation to clients", said
ManyWorlds CEO Steve Flinn. "Think of us as the IDEO of
business processes and models. Whereas IDEO is
recognized as the best in the business at product level
innovation, we're recognized as the best in the business
at strategic level innovation. And our Business
Creativity Center now provides unique physical and
virtual capabilities to facilitate collaborative
strategic level innovation."
ManyWorlds' Global Business Creativity Studio provides
state-of-the-art facilities for conducting innovation
workshops, including ManyWorlds' unique "flipping the
funnel™" business development process. Sophisticated
digital video facilities enable truly global workshops,
and comprehensive knowledge capture. Combined with
ManyWorlds' online collaborative innovation networks,
ManyWorlds delivers an unparalleled solution for
strategic innovation and business development processes.
About ManyWorlds
Inc.
ManyWorlds specializes in helping
leading businesses grow. ManyWorlds' clients are a
"who's who" of major value creators, including Cisco
Systems, BP, KPMG, Microsoft, and Pfizer. ManyWorlds
delivers to these and other clients the world's most
advanced business strategy advice and R&D, comprehensive
content and knowledge management solutions, and
state-of-the process design and implementation of
business growth processes. Headquartered in Houston, TX,
ManyWorlds delivers value to companies all around the
world. See www.manyworlds.com for more details.
ManyWorlds Announces Research Report on
Why the Internet Market Crashed
Houston,
TX -- May 14, 2001
A new
report researched by ManyWorlds details how the root of
the Internet market crash can be traced to fundamental
architectural deficiencies of the World Wide Web, which
has implications for all eBusiness initiatives. This
report details how the high multiples of the dot com
bubble were awarded because investors believed that
technology could deliver greater personalization and
targeting through the web than is actually achievable.
This report goes on to make suggestions of which future
architectures will deliver these features, that are so
badly needed in this world of mass-customisation.
Introduction
The web
page-based Internet has fueled an economic
transformation in the past half decade or so. However,
it has recently become apparent that the transformation,
while important, has been somewhat less than originally
expected.
We argue
that this mismatch in expectations is directly
attributable to the strengths and weaknesses of the
architecture of the World Wide Web – an architecture
that serves to maximize information supply, but, by
itself, is limited in its ability to support high
signal-to-noise ratios.
Essentially, the problem is one of information
management, and the solution will require fundamental
new information management paradigms.
Synopsis
of the Problem
We traced
the real problem back to 1990 and the advent of the web
page paradigm, followed by the web browser (taken
together, they comprise the technological paradigm of
the World Wide Web). This technology followed a
hypertext architecture, an architectural model that was
described by Ted Nelson, among others, several decades
earlier.
Web pages
are essentially linked "flat files" (flat, in the sense
they contain little or no contextual or meta
information). The advantage of this approach is that it
is very easy to quickly publish information,
particularly textual information, and it is very easy to
connect together chunks of information in an ad hoc way.
However, the simple hypertext paradigm has a built-in
tendency to drastically lose signal-to-noise as it
scales.
Its major
deficiencies are that the web page is not a unit of
information that is necessarily meaningful to a user (it
intertwines content with presentation formatting), there
is no standard approach to enabling the
contextualization of information, and there are no
facilities for automatically managing and manipulating
large chunks of related information. Contrast the web
page paradigm with relational data base technology, for
example. Relational databases do focus on particular
units of information, and have facilities for
manipulating and managing large chunks of information.
Unfortunately, relational databases are no better at
enabling a standard way of contextualizing information.
And more importantly, they are not as easy to use as the
web page approach.
So the
"wall" that the Internet economy has run into is an
architectural wall.
It is not the Internet itself, which is simply a
communications transport protocol. It is with the web
page-driven World Wide Web architecture. And
specifically, it is a problem of information management.
The web
rests on a ten year-old application architecture
that has reached its limits. We can see a dramatic
example of that in the case of Yahoo!. Yahoo!, the most
highly trafficked and successful of all pure Internet
sites has basically not fundamentally upgraded the
capabilities of its site in over four years. Given that
they have every incentive to increase the gap between
themselves and competitors, to enhance the
signal-to-noise ratio of their site, and have an army of
talent to execute such upgrades, the fact that Yahoo!
has not done so strongly suggests that their basic
architecture inhibits improvements.
Solution
Fundamentally, the information management problem of the
Internet only gets solved when we move away from the
fundamental unit of information being the web page.
We see as
the only alternative a fundamental unit of information
based on a network of information, with appropriate
standard descriptive information about the network and
its constituent information elements. Such a
standardized network approach would enable today's
inefficient web site paradigm to be replaced by an
information network syndication paradigm.
In this
model, the network of content or knowledge would be
portable across an unlimited number of distribution
channels, rather than highly restricted as is the case
of the web site paradigm. Such an architecture would
enable networks of information to be managed and
manipulated effectively. For example, networks could
easily be copied, combined, divided, and in general,
effectively syndicated. In fact, syndication is
the key word -- syndication of networks replaces hyper
text-based web pages as the fundamental technology.
Such a
technology would enable an overall shift of the ability
to contextualize and therefore target much more
precisely to the requirements of users and communities.
This technology would create a new space of Knowledge
Network Management
and would allow a greater breadth of content sources to
be provided to users without losing the quality or
relevance of the information.
For more information on this report and its findings
please contact us on contact@manyworlds.com
ManyWorlds Announces Proposed Solution to the
Origins of
Music
Houston,
TX -- February 14, 2001 -- ManyWorlds, Inc., announces
that its founder, Steve Flinn, has developed a
generalized theory that solves the mystery of the
evolution of musicality in humans. An abstract of the
theory is available on
http://www.manyworlds.com, and details will be
presented at a major scientific conference later this
year.
Mr. Flinn
has combined insights from human evolution, cognitive
science and information theory to develop a theory that
accounts for the universality of music, as well as its
particular features and uses. In summary, Mr. Flinn
argues that human musical capabilities co-evolved with
overall intelligence and language capabilities, and that
the specific purpose of these capabilities is to enable
the sender of message to modulate how the message will
be stored in the minds of message receivers.
Specifically, musicality enables the sender(s) of a
message to increase the probability that the message
will be stored in long-term memory of the receiver(s).
As human intelligence, brain plasticity and the
associated sophistication of messages increased, the
adaptive advantages of such a memory modulation
technique would have become very significant.
"The fact
that the human brain has multiple types of memory
storage almost guarantees that a communication mode
would evolve that enables communicator(s) to have a
strong influence on memory storage of the receiver(s)",
said Mr. Flinn. "The set of capabilities we label
'music' are just those acoustical-based functions that
facilitate such memory modulation. Today we think of
music as primarily entertainment. However, music
actually evolved as a general mode of communication that
directly impacted survivability. The ability in
pre-literate societies to ensure the coding of key
information in long-term memory was critical. Even
today, we see glimpses of music's original purpose. For
example, in the way children learn their ABC's through
song, and by the way advertisers exploit music to ensure
their message will be retained (annoyingly!) in our
brains. And we are able to marvel at the Iliad and the
Odyssey to this day only because they were sung with
high fidelity through the mists of Greek pre-literacy."
About ManyWorlds
Inc.
ManyWorlds
is an intellectual capital design firm, combining deep
competencies in computer science, cognitive science,
mathematical modeling, and business strategy. ManyWorlds
synthesizes these competencies to deliver strategy
insights and advanced knowledge management applications
to organizations around the world. See
http://www.manyworlds.com for details.
ManyWorlds Announces Breakthrough in Business Strategy:
The StrategySpace(TM) Model
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2001--ManyWorlds, Inc.
has just released results of its advanced business
strategy research and development program. ManyWorlds'
new StrategySpace model is the most advanced framework
available for enabling business leaders to successfully
navigate today's market realities. ManyWorlds'
StrategySpace summary white paper, and the associated
sample diagnostic tool are available and featured on the
Internet's premier business strategy source,
http://www.manyworlds.com.
"StrategySpace was
designed based on an in-depth review of the strengths
and weaknesses of earlier strategy frameworks, as well
as empirical data on the evolution of business models
and their ability to generate value," said ManyWorlds
CEO Steve Flinn. "StrategySpace is unique in that it
explicitly recognizes the adaptive nature of strategic
positioning and value creation, and the necessity of
continually adjusting business models for peak
performance."
ManyWorlds
is currently applying StrategySpace at some of the
world's leading businesses. StrategySpace is being used
to accelerate high value strategy initiatives at both
the enterprise and the business unit levels. The model
includes a complete suite of strategic positioning,
value driver, business process, knowledge management and
IT architecture components - enabling leaders to fully
leverage StrategySpace in all phases of their business.
About
ManyWorlds Consulting, Inc.
ManyWorlds is the intellectual capital design firm for
the new economy, specializing in leading-edge
business/IT strategy R&D, strategic executive education
and eLearning, strategy consulting, and comprehensive
content and knowledge management solutions. ManyWorlds
enables clients to build exceptional value through
sustained intellectual capital growth. Headquartered in
Houston, TX, ManyWorlds delivers value to top companies
all around the world. See
http://www.manyworlds.com for more details.
ManyWorlds Announces Elite Business Strategy
Consultation Over The Internet
Houston, TX -- October 11, 2000 -- ManyWorlds
Consulting, Inc. is Leading the Revolution in Business
Value Creation(TM) through a dramatic enhancement of the
Internet's leading business and IT strategy resource,
http://www.manyworlds.com/. Now business executives can
rapidly receive in-depth insights on their business and
IT strategy issues from ManyWorlds' network of the
world's top strategists through the "Ask ManyWorlds"
feature of http://www.manyworlds.com/ And this
extraordinarily valuable service is absolutely free of
charge.
In
addition, ManyWorlds has expanded the scope of http://www.manyworlds.com/to
include over 30 business and IT strategy topic areas,
comprised of thousands of high quality individual
content items -- articles, cases, presentations, white
papers, multimedia and interactive tools. The topics and
content are all integrated in a state-of-the art
knowledge base that enables business executives to find
the highest quality, most relevant content quickly.
"With
our new 'Ask ManyWorlds' feature, our comprehensive
business and IT strategy content, and our ability to
deliver customized, strategic e-learning environments,
ManyWorlds is accelerating the convergence of the
business consulting, business education, and business
publishing sectors", said ManyWorlds CEO Steve Flinn.
"That has tremendous benefits for our clients -- we are
now in a class of our own in being able to deliver whole
new value propositions that cut across these traditional
sectors."
About ManyWorlds Consulting, Inc.
ManyWorlds
is the intellectual capital design firm for the new
economy, specializing in business/IT strategy R&D,
strategic executive education and eLearning, strategy
consulting, and leading-edge content solutions.
ManyWorlds enables clients to achieve sustained,
"blow-out" value creation positions. Headquartered in
Houston, TX, ManyWorlds delivers value to companies all
around the world.
ManyWorlds Announces Customized Business Strategy
E-Learning Solutions
Houston, TX -- May 04, 2000 -- ManyWorlds Consulting,
Inc., the premier deliverer of Thought Leadership for
the New Economy(TM) announces the immediate availability
of customer-specific versions of ManyWorlds' highly
acclaimed business strategy portal, http://www.manyworlds.com.
ManyWorlds' http://www.manyworlds.com site features the
world's most comprehensive set of advanced, multi-media
content directly focused on business and information
technology strategy.
With
ManyWorlds' Thought Leadership Studio, businesses and
institutions can create their own portal to dramatically
enhance organizational learning in the area of new
economy strategy development and execution. "Thought
Leadership Studio is a break-through product that
enables clients to easily combine their own proprietary
content and applications with ManyWorlds' rich content
on a continuous basis, resulting in a truly leading-edge
e-learning solution," said ManyWorlds CEO Steve Flinn.
"In the new economy the ability to learn faster than the
competition is the only real sustainable competitive
advantage, and Thought Leadership Studio provides an
unparalleled way to achieve such an advantage".
About ManyWorlds Consulting, Inc.
ManyWorlds
is the intellectual capital design firm for the new
economy, and is Leading the Revolution in Business Value
Creation(TM). ManyWorlds enables its clients to achieve
sustained, "blow-out" value creation positions.
ManyWorlds delivers its elite thought leadership to
leading companies such as Cisco Systems and Royal
Dutch/Shell, high potential start-ups, the world's
largest and most prestigious consulting companies, and
to leading business schools. Headquartered in Houston,
TX, ManyWorlds delivers thought leadership to companies
all around the world.
ManyWorlds Announces the World's Premier Business
Strategy Portal
Houston, TX -- March 15, 2000 -- ManyWorlds Consulting,
Inc., the premier deliverer of Thought Leadership for
the New Economy™, announces the immediate availability
of a highly sophisticated new Internet resource for
business executives, http://www.manyworlds.com.
The
http://www.manyworlds.com portal features the most
comprehensive set of advanced, multi-media content
directly focused on business and information technology
strategy formulation. "The site rolls-up the best
strategy-related content from the across the Internet,
along with ManyWorlds' own leading-edge content, and
organizes it all in a way that is optimized for easy
access by busy executives," said ManyWorlds CEO Steve
Flinn. "And although very easy to use, the site contains
the broadest, as well as deepest, set of strategy
resources available anywhere."
This
unparalleled strategy resource is being provided to
executives free of charge. Executives will be able to
immediately contact ManyWorlds experts on the
application of any of the strategy topic areas to their
own business situations.
About ManyWorlds Consulting, Inc.
ManyWorlds focuses on helping to shape the leading
businesses of the new economy through the application of
its unique Business Model Solutions™ approach. Business
Model Solutions is comprised of best-in-world strategy
consulting, coupled with an outstanding ability to
assist clients in executing the strategy successfully.
The goal is always the same -- to help clients achieve
"blow-out" value creation positions. ManyWorlds' clients
range from leading companies such as Cisco Systems and
Royal Dutch/Shell, to a variety of very high potential
start-ups. Headquartered in Houston, TX, ManyWorlds
assists companies around the world. |
