The Challenge: Tom Peters, the most influential business thinker of our time, has a core rant in his latest book entitled "Re-imagine: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age" -- we desperately need to remove unnecessary organizational barriers, and bypass the egos of the petty tyrants, and the harmful negativity of the habitually apathetic. Nevertheless, for the many weary organization leaders, a lingering question remains -- how?

The Cause: GeoNetworker International is championing a bold goal -- to conceive and design an open-source software platform that enables enterprise thought-leaders to find each other, to dialogue, to share tribal knowledge, to develop bonds that stand the tests of time, and to inspire the pursuit of truly remarkable collaborative peer-group projects.

The Analysis: Corporate and government leaders alike sincerely believe that their people are their greatest single asset. But, middle managers operate within a sphere of denial and lassitude, because a candid assessment of their supposed huge talent-pool often uncovers a mere talent-puddle. Why? The simple truth is that a growing number of large enterprise employees admit that they don't care enough to be impassioned about their work. The following quote characterizes this core culture problem.

"Most people tiptoe carefully through life, so that they can make it safely to death." -- An excerpt from The Seeds of Greatness by Dr. Dennis Waitley, a recognized authority on high level achievement and personal excellence.

The Solution: Don't let Dilbert become your unofficial organization mascot. Take decisive action now, and learn the principles that define an Enterprise Talent Networking methodology. Demonstrate that purposeful engagement is the standard ethos of your establishment. TalentNexus | GroupFusion: actively unite your true talent-brokers.

The ecoSystem: We envision a hybrid peer-to-peer Web 2.0 software platform that incorporates the ability for users to easily create and maintain customized individual digital portfolios that introduce their intangible assets -- where the full depth and breadth of a person's intellectual capital can be collected in context -- then combining that capability with any web services standards-based commercial social networking forum to actively connect the links within an organization's talent-chain.

The History: These underlying theories are an evolution from our founder's original application scenario for a "Sales Effectiveness System" prototype -- now commercialized as "PowerSeller." David's ethnographic research of telecom service provider salespeople, and their differing work habits, led him to join the start-up executive team at WhisperWire, Inc. (acquired by Convergys) where he conceived and branded their prototype Enterprise 2.0 software product suite.