An open, spontaneous report to Bill and Melinda Gates and their Foundation
from the UIC management consultant team
which includes experience with this system
from 1/27/64 to the present

The first part of this report relates to the Uniteam™ suite of four venue-specific programs, illustrated here:

Our First focus is on the impact of your Foundation working with the subject(s) of a project, in a team effort, in operational locales:

At this time, use of Uniteam™ programs is limited to English-speaking people.  That is in no way a permanent boundary.  It is just a matter of priorities. 

It is likely a current goal or set of objectives, to get community-wide resonance and unity and inclusive participation in the improvement project, and to prepare for best exit strategy (total or partial).   We suggest here what can be an adjunct to however you address these items now:  You could provide copies of Home Team™ to individuals and families.  This may require the distribution of appropriate computers and training in their use. 

The targets and sequence would quickly become the province of you and yours, once you had experience with this kind of application of this tool, but it seems possible that after families might come schools, or vice versa.  Local folks involved in the project might contribute solutions.

The next wave could go to schools, one copy of School Team™ for each student, for each member of the teaching and administration and support staff.  Many students would already have come to respect this toolkit as part of family use, and the reverse effect could also obtain.  And so it goes as it spreads.  Here we have the prospect of the various skills in the educational community forming teams with parents and students.

Government, community-based efforts and institutions, and businesses could all profit from either Business Team™ or Community Team™.  One observer of matters related to all this termed the system ‘a common language for civil discourse’.  Certainly appropriate if there can be civil, civic dialogue.  And if there can be individual life management integrated with processes that support teams building and managing themselves and their projects, and meetings that manage and lead themselves, then the underlying idea that this is a new way to think, communicate, and come to common understandings, can make this, adjunct to the focus of the project, into a collateral benefit in most all areas of life.  For if this does make meetings into an art form and a team sport that everyone wins, it makes self-improvement, and community-improvement a rhapsody.  What a nice, full circle way to come as the fallout of your decades-long involvement in the world wide prospering of computers as part of life yields, via people all over the globe, rich results.  This does have the prospect of making another huge difference.

Such an approach could up dramatically the odds that the community and all of its components could accept and prosper under an evolved leadership involving the whole-hearted acceptance of, and continuous improvement of, the project you enter into with them.

Your team could be best served by personal use of Home Team, and at work use of either Business Team or Community Team.  Those you want to interview or consider as recipients of your beneficial efforts, or perhaps better considered as team members in the planning and management effort related to projects, could do well to prepare themselves with the same tools.

The second part of this report relates to the use of the Synthesys® system and the support software designed in tandem with Uniteam, which makes the use of Synthesys compatible with Uniteam.