Plan an ETforum

An ETforum is conducted as a series of short web conferences.

Two to four vendor or solution presenters are included in each session, along with vigorous internal discussion.

It’s a better-than-live environment, with face-to-face video, multi-threaded chat, prioritized Q&A, departmental break-outs, and immediately tabulated evaluations and action plans.

We use desktop web conferencing, so your people can participate from anywhere. And scheduling is routine.

We can work with vendors and presenters you discover within ETsource™. Or we can work with others that you source independently.

Either way, we handle all the logistics, vetting, and vendor preparation. You and your team can receive exceptionally well-prepared problem-solution presentations from the senior officers of emerging tech companies, or the direct sources of IP.

You can conduct your ETforum with as little as six weeks lead time. And, it can consume as little as 10 hours per particpant. ( Including their study and discussion within ETtools, and their participation as audience for the ETforum sessions.)

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Your Own Private Conference

An ETforum is just like your own private industry conference, except you don’t have to travel, and you don’t have to wait through all the presentations to hear the one you came for.

Best of all, you don’t have to carry your findings back to the office and recruit converts to your discoveries.

Because there’s no travel, you’re free to include as many of your colleagues and cross departmental decision makers as you like. You’ll all be exposed to the same information, in parallel.

We’ll accomplish the whole thing in less elapsed time than it takes you to travel from your office to the first presentation at a typical out-of-town conference.

Consensus Building

Compare and Contrast with Typical Methods:

Departmental Fix
		Often, external innovations are championed by a single leader, or a single functional area.
Organizational Rejection
		But, after a decision is taken, the individual champion discovers that implementation cannot succeed without cross-departmental support. And, because the others were not engaged in defining the problem, they are not on-board for the champion’s proposed solution.
Enterprise Solution
		The resulting push-back and cross-departmental reset extends the solution timeline by 6 to 18 months.
Consensus Before Investigation
		In contrast, a cross-departmental innovation team, using ETtools, can quickly identify the Top 10 or Top 20 external technologies and innovations that have shared prioritization across departments. Because each person and each department have searched and ranked for their own account -- and selected from thousands of possibilities -- it follows that the Top 10 team or corporate selections have wide support.
...Enables ETforum
		This natural and graceful buy-in means internal participants will attend and prepare for the ETforum. It’s their agenda, after all. And, there will be strong cross-departmental support for detailed investigation of those solutions that exit the ETforum with a request for fact-finding or proposal.

Time Compression

		As described in prior tab, typical methods for organizational consensus in implementing external innovation consume time and money, and expose the organization to competitive threat.

		In contrast, ETtools and an ETforum can move the organization through discussion of hundreds of possibilities, and face-to-face examination of the Top 10 in as little as six weeks, occupying as little as 10 hours per innovation team member.

		This compares favorably with default methods

Results / Metrics

The value of cumulative filtering with ETsource™, ETtools™, and ETforums™ is considerable.

Selection from thousands of possibilities, followed by cross-departmental discussion in ETtools, followed by vetting and vendor preparation means exceptionally qualified executive presenters.

There will be no boring technology tutorials. Each presenter will focus on how his solution solves your problem. Often, two or three presenters will discuss how their individual solutions can work together.

In this environment, on average, 7 of 10 presenting vendors are asked to continue to detailed fact-finding or proposal.

Even the 30% who don’t continue are winners because they will have determined “no match” with certainty and with minimal effort, thus recovering time to find another client, or modify their product.

Next Steps

An Emerging Tech Accelerator ETforum can be adapted to your specific needs and objectives.

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