With deployments to the Forum Annual Meeting and the Club of Madrid in early 2005, along with other opportunities that now exist, a permanent fully outfitted and finctional RDS in Europe may become a reality.

This capability will augment the work of our European ValueWeb members and also make possible the facilitation of complex, now seemingly intransigent social issues.

Between the January WEF and the March Club of Madrid RDS deployments, a decision has to be made to leave the RDS in Europe or return it to the United States. If the RDS stays, an European team will be trained to do the deployments and a home base will be found for between-deployment use.

There are a number of issues in regards a permanent euroRDS: ownership or stewardship; import taxes; deployment support team; home base; repair and upgrading; branding; revenue sharing; license; insurance; an European business entity. These will have to be worked through in the first quarter of 05.

At present, there are several groups that have expressed interest in employing or owning the RDS. Some may be able to work together, others, because of their ownership structure, cannot. MG taylor has need of an RDS in the U.S. however there is a certain logic in leaving the unit in Europe once it is there. If it stays, we will have to manufacture a new one. There are capital and timing issues involved.

In terms of how all this is sorted out, equal weight has to be given to mission fulfillment and business concerns. The RDS enhancement [link] was a big risk to us and cost a great deal more than first quarter revenues can justify. ROI has to be achieved very quickly. At the same time, it took us 20 years to make a RDS this capable and the “market” for its best use is just beginning to show itself - this is not the time to give it all away.

Out there somewhere is the opportunity that gets it all done and advances us towards the operational profile compatible with our migration to becoming a true ValueWeb creator [link: iteration6 system integrator] not a small business stretched all over the globe.

March 31, 2005 Note:

The Club of madrid deployment did not happen. A bombing outside the Congress hall combined with a late start in the planning for the event caused the sponsors to go the more conventional path this year. However, the Davos demonstration did convince their leadership that the RDS and Taylor Method is a viable option for the future.

The RDS is in storage in Zurich. There are two opportunities for permanent installations and two RDS deployments being considered. These will be profiled in the rest of these notes as their stories unfold.

May 18, 2005 Note:

Three deployments, and possibly four, will be made in June, 05. MG Taylor and AOGG are hosting a DesignShop experience to advance the MG Taylor Method practices and advance the development of the European ValueWeb. The RDS will be set up in two places for these events. The first is a space that has been selected for housing the Liechtenstein NavCenter; the second, a hotel in Bad Ragaz not far away. At the hotel two events will be held; a session for the Private Wealth Forum, as part of the 21iNet Annual Meeting and a planning session for the Liechtenstein government. The fourth, in the talking stage, is a DesignShop to start the planning process for the 06 WEF. [November 19, 2005 update: the session for the Liechtenstein government was put off until 06; the AoGG session was jointly sponsored with TomorrowMakers and MG Taylor and was held in June; the first planning and transfer session for the 06 WEF Annual Meeting was held on the 10th and 11th of November]

Space selected for the Liechtenstein NavCenter. This environment is ready to go and sections of the RDS will be moved there in early June.

This is one room, of several in the hotel at Bad Ragaz for the 21iNet, Private Wealth Council sessions.

November 25, 2006 Note:

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