I-Corps: Responsive Writing Solutions

该项目旨在帮助组织和个人节省时间和金钱，为“意想不到的作家”提供培训、支持和反馈。意想不到的作家是指科学家、IT专家、工程师和其他人，他们的主要活动涉及技术专业，但他们花了不成比例的时间写作，有时效率低下。组织经常根据正确性对写作问题进行分类。通过最初的客户发现，i-Corps团队了解到，潜在客户将对提供关键任务文档即时帮助的软件解决方案感兴趣；该软件将为许多组织解决痛点并节省大量资源，无论这些组织是营利性组织、非营利组织、政府组织还是学术界组织。特别是，如果在做出良好的结构选择方面得到帮助，作者可以花费更少的时间撰写文章，并提供更好的结果。建议的产品将显著缓解(如果不是消除)潜在客户中发现的许多痛点。没有受过专业培训的专业作家的技术专家执行写作任务的时间更长，并且经常制作质量低和/或不稳定的文件，这会花费他们的组织和他们自己大量的时间和金钱。该项目的系统是在与潜在客户密切协商的基础上建立的，使技术专家能够在写作任务上花费更少的时间(通过及时指导和其他工具，将其文本与组织指导方针捆绑在一起)，从而将更多的时间花在他们的科学工作上。这将提高生产力和效率，帮助组织更好地履行其使命，并增加组织的有用、结构有意义和可重复使用的内容。

This project aims to help organizations and individuals save time and money by providing training, support, and feedback to "unexpected writers." Unexpected writers are those scientists, IT specialists, engineers and others whose primary activity involves a technical specialty but who spend disproportionate amounts of their time writing, sometimes ineffectively. Organizations often categorize the writing problem in terms of correctness. Through initial customer discovery, this I-Corps team learned that potential customers would be interested in a software solution that provides just-in-time help with mission-critical documents; this software would address pain points and save significant resources for many organizations, whether they be for-profit, non-profit, governmental, or academic. In particular, writers could spend less time writing and provide better results if given help in making good structural choices.The proposed product will significantly mitigate, if not eliminate, the many pain points identified among potential customers. Technical specialists who are not trained professional writers take longer to perform writing tasks and frequently produce documents of low and/or erratic quality, costing their organizations and themselves significant time and money. This project's system, built in close consultation with potential customers, allows technical specialists to spend less time on their writing tasks (by just-in-time guidance and other tools that will bind their texts to organizational guidelines) and thus spend more time on their scientific work. This will improve productivity and efficiency, help organizations better fulfill their mission, and increase organizations' useful, structurally meaningful and reusable content.