Justification for the OBF

open :: business

Should the Open Business Foundation even exist? What are the
things it strives to provide that are either not currently provided or
not provided well?

A quick sketch of areas that the OBF would like to address... the hierarchy is currently arbitrary and not organized:

Mission Divisions:

Innovation
    - contributions from related research

    - contributions from the community
    
Infomation dissemination
    * Community
        - communication (input/feedback) via forums/maillists
        - standard email

        - user-contributed web content
        - document downloads/uploads (OSS model)
    * Assimilation
        - organization of standard materials, both easily availible and those hard to come by
        - lessons learned from the nations best businesses
Economy
    * what activities of a business help secure economic stabliity?
    * what encourages the evolution of the economy?
    
Society
    * Ethical/social responsibility

Planning
    - fiscal
    - management
    - corporate culture