Rapid and Accurate Idea Transfer

With an estimated 450 million PowerPoint users giving around 1 million briefings each day (Microsoft), it is easy to appreciate how the criticism of "endemic use of PowerPoint" has far reaching implications in the armed forces as well as in diplomatic and commercial realms. Thus, Systemic Management Science Corporation proposes an innovative alternative to PowerPoint, the efficacy of which is maximized with revolutionary Scout Interface design and a novel client-server architecture for collaborative authoring. The feasibility of Scout Interface design that can rapidly and accurately facilitate effective communication of complex ideas, and high-quality analyses was investigated in Phase I, and it was convincingly demonstrated with 136% performance improvement over PowerPoint. For Phase II, Systemic Management Science Corporation proposes to develop the Scout Interface software that is extremely easy to use. The Phase II technical objectives are: 1) Create Client-Server Prototype – TRL 4; 2) Conduct Focus Group Study; 3) Make Software Improvements – TRL 5; 4) Conduct Human Subject Experiment One; 5) Finalize Beta Products – TRL 6; 6) Conduct Human Subject Experiment Two; and 7) Establish Commercialization Path. The successful completion of Phase II is expected to result in Phase III Commercialization of an easy to use, yet powerful systemic software platform.