Architecture of Participation

An infrastructure that makes it easy, interesting and rewarding for a wide range of contributors to offer ideas and solve problems.

Mutual Fun: gives employees an equity position in ideas. They "vote" on good ideas with their "money" and share in the financial success of each project.

   Archituecture of Participation Results:

• Company capitalizes on good thinking
• Financial incentives for employees
• Employees have "investment" in good ideas & reason to make them successful
• Good ideas reach fuition
• Big idea -- Use video games to train military personnel
• Corporate leadership nixed it
• Employees bought up all the stock
• The product -- 40% of company revenues
• Game player is now retired