Every economy depends upon people recognising value and organising around opportunities. Ideas-Shared extends that principle to ambition.

Around the world, individuals, informal groups and organisations continually identify things they want to change, improve, stop, protect, create or achieve. Alongside them exists an enormous distributed supply of knowledge, experience, relationships, influence, capability and resources.

Too often, the two never meet.

The Ambition Economy is the environment that emerges when ambitions become visible and people and organisations can discover them, decide what matters, contribute what they have and organise around opportunities to create meaningful outcomes.

It is not an economy defined simply by money or commercial exchange.

Its currency is much broader: ambition, participation, knowledge, capability, relationships, resources, activity and outcomes.

An individual may bring an idea. An informal group may bring shared purpose. A business may bring expertise. A charity may bring experience. A community may bring need. An institution may bring resources. Another participant may bring the connection that enables everything else to happen.

Each retains the freedom to decide where, when and whether to participate.

What connects them is ambition.

Our Vision

A world in which worthwhile ambitions have a greater opportunity to be discovered, supported and realised because the people and capabilities needed to progress them can find one another.

A world where participation is not limited by existing networks, organisational boundaries, geography or status, and where individuals, informal groups and organisations have greater opportunity to contribute to the things they believe matter.

Our Aim

To help create the participation infrastructure through which an increasingly connected world can become an increasingly capable one.

By making ambitions visible, enabling choice and facilitating Intelligent Collaboration, Ideas-Shared seeks to increase the number of opportunities for distributed human and organisational capability to become purposeful collective action.

An Economy Everyone Can Contribute To

The Ambition Economy does not belong to Ideas-Shared. It belongs to everyone who participates in it.

Every ambition creates opportunity. Every participant brings capability. Every activity creates the potential for progress. And every outcome can create new knowledge, opportunity and ambition.

As participation grows, so do the possible combinations between individuals, informal groups and organisations — connecting what people want to achieve with what others can contribute.

That is where the real potential lies.

From Ambition to Generational Improvement

Ambitions can be personal, professional or societal. They can improve one life, transform an organisation, strengthen a community or address challenges affecting millions.

Individually, each can matter. Collectively, their impact could be extraordinary.

Imagine millions of ambitions becoming visible, attracting participation, combining capabilities and producing outcomes — problems resolved, opportunities created, organisations improved and new realities made possible.

Eight billion people. Millions of organisations. Countless ambitions. Capability distributed everywhere.

The potential already exists. The Ambition Economy gives us a way to unlock more of it — and leave better conditions for those who follow.