"It's so sad to be pleased alone" said Lessing. Beside of that it's dangerous to not interweave and to stay behind closed doors.

We have a long lasting and intense collaboration with the following organisations:

Management Center Witten

At the Management Center Witten, recent systems theory provides the basis for reconciling theory and practice. Presently, Systems theory provides the most useful scientific models, which are used not only in the sciences, but also in sociology, organisational theory, psychology and in economics. During the past twenty years, systems theory provided the framework for developing pragmatic methods for the management of complex social systems and for consulting services. Management Center Witten's activities are probably best summarized in the formula, "Pragmatism, applied on a high level of self-reflection."

Mission: To help avoid a mistake that occurs often with the development of technology-based tools: missing the point of the personal and social realities in organizations.

Contact: http://www.mz-witten.de, Prof. Dirk Baecker (http://homepage.mac.com/baecker)

Digital Enterprise Research Institute

DERI is a cooperation between the National University of Ireland, Galway, HP Ireland, the University of Innsbruck and has branches in Stanford as well as Korea. It is a leading research institute in Semantic Web technologies, especially in Semantic Web Services, infrastructure, reasoning, natural language processing and other enabling technologies.

Mission: To assist System One with scientific expertise to fully exploit the potential of new semantic technologies.

Contact: http://www.deri.org, Prof. Dieter Fensel (http://www.fensel.com)