As Founder we remodeled half a building last November and has a soft start. We started our Innovation Speakers series in April 2011. We have a business model and business plan we are experimenting with and would like to collaborate on creating best models for success.
Josh Hill was hired as Director starting in August and redesigned our co-working spaces, conference room, and work rooms/offices. Capri Gillam, having lived in New Zealand came on as an Executive Assistant for my Vistage International practice working with Chief Executive Officers in diverse industries and Blue Ocean Innovation Center. We have once a month meetings, fly in top rated speakers, and conduct face to face 2 hour coaching sessions. They have need for spaces like these as well. I will be in San Francisco this week co-working at the Bay Area HUB and writing a blog from there. They just doubled their space. This will be my 2nd visit. I am most interested in creating business models that work for co-working and locale. While we consider Montana's mystique and sophistication, we are not San Francisco, New York, LA, Joplin, MO (great space there), NC....Europe, Asia...Philadelphia, PA..the list goes on... I also see it as a proactive way to counter the loss of hope or helplessness in global economies. This is a piece of economic development that has the most promise for communities and people creating to make difference. Wish we could attend and hope to in the future. Loved the 1st Global Survey Results. Blue Ocean Innovation Center’s Business Plan excerpts…. Vision and Mission? Our vision is to create innovative and inspirational spaces for: 1. Co-workers up to 100? capacity 2. Growing businesses (up to 6) who are beyond start-up, but need common area services, synergy, and innovation processes for successful implementation 3. Executive Leadership Teams, Professionals, Research & Development Teams for innovation processes and implementation strategies with self- guided tools or live facilitation 4. Innovation Speaker Series – one speaker a month 5. Innovation Labs – leadership, running a business, visual/ communications tools, World Café process focused on questions/topics that matter, topics chosen by the co-workers 6. Showcasing greatness in ideas and MSU graduate students art collection with regular receptions and awards 7. Offering a collective, growing library on cutting edge ideas in leadership, learning, innovation, implementing in diverse industries creating new or building on great ideas of others in art, science, faith, and solving world issues. 8. Conduct research using MSU grad students on the processes, the cross pollination of ideas, and neuroscience in helping leaders be more effective in facilitating innovations that can be implemented Our mission (the who, what, how) is to serve the community by making ideas happen, by providing cross pollination/inspirational co-working spaces, creativity/innovation tools, excellent speakers/workshops for successful implementation of worthy ideas and job creation. Company’s long term goals? 1. To provide long-term co-working space to convene for connection, creativity, and innovations for the improvement of communities world- wide and achieve tangible/intangible results 2. To grow co-working regionally as hot spots for entrepreneurship and job creation 3. To become an International HUB as outlined in the HUB guidelines 4. To promote the value of creativity and reflection for the betterment of the world converted to innovations that get implemented 5. To inspire, incubate, and connect people to each other for a sense of community and creativity that improves the quality of life 6. To create resources in finance/the arts and people to reinvest in innovations/causes that have impact and meaning on the quality of human life 7. To be a sponsor of TEDx events for Big Sky, Montana AUDIENCE PROFILE Please list and describe your existing audience/target markets: Independent innovators that create “buzz” when they are together, telecommuters, entrepreneurs that are ready to expand from their home/ garage to a co-working space. Mid to small size businesses, Executive leadership teams, research & development professionals in any industry, universities, MSU Internatioanal programs, professional organizations, professionals such as doctors, architects, attorneys, TechRanch, Entrepreneurial Centers, Leadership Institutes, Chambers of Commerce, Economic Development Agencies, and those interested in cross pollination of ideas to further innovation success, tangible results and creation of jobs. Becky H. Smith, Ed.D. Vistage International Chair for Chief Executives Founder, Blue Ocean Innovation Center -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
