i-Sparks is an open online community that helps people and organizations interested in social change grow their ideas into projects for success. Through i-Sparks, community members can discover, develop, test and perform new and borderless ways of problem solving, idea generation, successful project creation and crowdfunding. For this purpose i-Sparks is building an open social community platform that sparks ideas, inspiration and innovation for social change. i-Sparks follows a holistic, project- and thus results-oriented approach to problem solving and idea generation i-Sparks nurtures a truly open collaborative environment with reliable and trustworthy individuals and organizations that build an exceptionally strong community i-Sparks connects seemingly unrelated knowledge thus creating breakthrough insights

1. Introducing
An online community that helps people and organizations interested in
social change grow their ideas into projects for success.
www.i-sparks.net
Dr. Thomas Juli October 2012
Founder and President

3. So, you have an idea for social change?
Do something about it!

4. Growing Ideas Into Projects For Success
Idea(s) for Community of and for Setting up and
social change • Individuals executing projects
• Non-profit organizations for success
• Small businesses
1. IDEAS 2. INSPIRATION 3. INNOVATION
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5. Ideas Phase
In the Ideas phase you
describe your challenge
and/or idea for social change.
i-Sparks helps you assess
the root cause of the
challenge, develop a vision
statement and derive an
initial project objectives
statement.

6. The 3 phases of growing ideas into projects for success
PHASE
1. IDEAS
• Assessing
Motivation (5
Why‘s)
• Building Vision
• Deriving initial
ACTIONS
Project objectives
MVP
RESULTS
• Motivation
• Vision
• Project proposal
© 2012 by Thomas Juli, all rights reserved

7. Inspiration Phase
In the Inspiration phase you share the results of the Ideas phase with the i-
Sparks community. You invite others to finetune your motivation, vision and
project statements and thus help build a foundation for project success.

8. The 3 phases of growing ideas into projects for success
PHASE
2. INSPIRATION
• Sharing MVP with
community
• Identifying
possible matches
of MVPs and
ACTIONS
people (interests,
skills, etc.)
• Identifying
synergy effects
across MVPs
• Enhancing / M
refining MVP
V
P
• Matches of ideas
RESULTS
/ problems,
projects, people
• Refined MVP
• Project proposal
© 2012 by Thomas Juli, all rights reserved

9. Innovation Phase
In the Innovation phase you form your project team and set up the project for
success. i-Sparks facilitates this process and even helps you find the
necessary resources for your project to take off successfully.

10. The 3 phases of growing ideas into projects for success
PHASE
3. INNOVATION
• Team forming &
norming
• Project setup:
Qualifying project
scope, developing
ACTIONS
project approach
with respect to
collaboration,
performance,
learning, results
• Crowdfunding
• Executing project
• Prototyping,
delivering interim
results
• Project team
RESULTS
• Project setup
• Project funding
• Project results
© 2012 by Thomas Juli, all rights reserved

11. Project Success
Project Success is not limited to the final and successful outcomes of the
three i-Sparks phases. It is an ongoing process of discovering, sharing,
learning and celebrating ideas, inspiration and innovation for social change.

12. Join us!
Join us and help build a community that helps you grow
your ideas for social change into projects for
success.
info@i-sparks.com www.i-Sparks.net i_sparks