06 - Recommendations on Tech Tool Adoption

The Landscape is Exponentially Bewildering

As of January 28, 2025, we have evaluated over 740 tools, platforms, websites, APIs, etc, as part of an expanded Scope of Work. This expanded scope of work came from 1) realizing our intentions to help Laerdal thrive, hopefully at an exponential rate, over another three generations. 2) parallel processing the contracted Scope of Work with the comments and intentions of key individuals, such as Tore Laerdal, Alf Christian Dybdahl, and Morten Jacobsen, proved a juggling act. (See expanded direction, if you want to double click.

TLDR -- This is the way we will communicate it.

We spent quite a while putting our survey of newfangled Cognitive, Collaborative Tooling and Developer Tools into CraftDocs.

This site you are on now is published from a "vault" using Obsidian. We are still figuring out how to best use it, it's loaded with goodies. One interesting aspect of Obsidian: it uses Markup to add semi-structured data to any note or page: !Obsidian

Performing an expansive market mapping was a monumental task, but layer on the meandering journey on exactly how to communicate such a large market mapping.... Thus, we had a few parallel ideas. Below, we made an attempt to catalog them all in a schema as bookmarks in the Arc (Browser), which allows people to share their bookmark folders. We broke it ;) !Screenshot 2025 01 28 at 2.31.07 PM_Survey of Tech Options.png Yet another, was catchy slides. An example is: !AI Generated Customer Insights 1

One, we would create The Lossless Innovation Cookbook with a newfangled Advanced Documents tool. Here at this link, we tried one in CraftDocs. While it is very pretty, in the end it felt completely out of hand. !CraftDocs