Knowledge Stategist
Chief Collaboration Officer
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Bill Daul is a world-wide consultant, Chief Collaboration Officer and has been instrumental in the formation of a large number of successful symposia, forums, business partnerships and collaborations over the years in Silicon Valley and beyond. Bill's skills are particularly attuned to discerning the highest-leverage way to combine innovative technologies with people and organizations who can bring these emerging ideas to market. Typically this involves bringing innovative CEO-, CTO-, VP-, Senior Fellow- level people together to create new business models and fresh strategic approaches.
Bill opened up a number of new business relationships for Herriot Research, at the time an adjunct to Bios Group, Inc. of Santa Fe, including IBM, Catarra Inc. (was SoftSource Corp), Mithya Inc., SelfCorp, etc. Bill has a special talent for taking valuable tacit knowledge in an organization and making it explicit, so that it can serve as the foundation and stimulus for further innovation and value. This is the art of company self-renewal – critically essential for the long-term survival and vitality of all growing organizations.
At IdeaRhyme, Bill’s vision is to build organizations through stronger relationships, both internally and externally. Bill has leveraged his longstanding ties to computer industry legends such as: Vinton Cerf, co-developer of Internet-related data packet technologies for DARPA; Doug Engelbart, creator the mouse; the Bootstrap Institute; and Ted Nelson, designer, generalist and contrarian, known for coining the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia; Paul Saffo of Institute For The Future fame; James Burke (Connections / The Day The Universe Changes - BBC tv shows) and others.
Bill has held positions at a wide variety of high tech companies, including Sun Microsystems, Informix Software, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, Tymshare, and the United States Geological Survey. In all of these positions, Bill took a leadership role in helping organizations reach new levels of innovation and success by forging unexpectedly powerful creative links to other people and organizations – often in different fields, and highly synergistic.
In 1999, Bill founded with other like-minded friends the NextNow Network, a synergistic web of relationships focused on transforming the present or in other terms a diverse a group of visionaries he selected to meet regularly to explore and transcend creative and intellectual boundaries – from the past...to the here...to the new. Once again, as is Bill’s passion, he created a crucible for new and productive ideas though making business and professional connections. Nosotros and more recently NextNow have lead to a number of new startups and business partnerships. He contibuted to the founding of the NextNow Collaboratory (NNC) by Claudia Welss the Executive Director. NNC is a fiscal project of Planetwork.
In 2001, Bill brought together a number of thought leaders in the field of learning to co-found the Meta-Learning Lab (MLL). The MLL is dedicated to increasing people's capacity to learn, thereby improving the performance of individuals, groups, and organizations.
In 2008, one of NextNow's senior consultants at the Pentagon tasked Bill to put on a 3-day Innovation Forum for 25 change agents in the Air Force and Navy in Silicon Valley.
Bill is member of Douglas Engelbart's pioneering research team at SRI - International, and has been affiliated with the Bootstrap Institute since 1988. He was also a member of the Electronic Multi Media Foundation (EMMA). EMMA Foundation encourages the creative, technical and professional development of digital media on a world-wide basis.
He was also a member of the ANZA Technology Network (www.anzatechnet.com) is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California with the primary focus on developing a strong network of Australian, New Zealand and US technology companies, service providers and executives whose joint purpose is to develop business between the US New Zealand and Australia. He is also a member of Australian-American Chamber of Commerce.
Finally he was a team member of Teams for Tasks, an Australian-based Northern Territory group that mainly centers on people, communication and change.