In response to the questions I received about CPM, I want to clarify what it is and who it is for.

What is it?

CPM is really a general concept that doesn't mandate any specific implementation or platform or even architecture. It has few central notions defined on top of and complementing the features of Social Network and Collaborative Innovation Network concepts: 

·  Composition of the collaboration rooms into projects based on stated goal

·  Vertical hierarchical composition of projects into other higher-level projects based on stated criteria

·  Dynamic regrouping of rooms and projects based on goal and criteria changes

·  Dynamic progress and completion update

Who is it for?

Everyone. Literally. Consider a very typical situation when you have a question and you don't really know who to ask or don't have time to find an answer yourself. You go to a friend or a colleague or get online and ask it in a newsgroup or a forum. But what if this question isn't really that simple and has many parts to it which are not known to any single person or even a single community of people? You're either out of luck or will spend much more time and possibly money trying to get a solution. By using CPM system you do the same amount of work (describing your question and solution criteria) but you get much more - your problem becomes a living project that could be part of a larger problem or could be broken into pieces if it's too complex. Moreover, this set of projects can be made visible to different kinds of communities - part of it may be solved by the professionals, part of it can go to an academic community, part of it may get resolved by someone smart who happened to see it online or in his/her inbox. But most importantly, the solutions generated in the course of these projects, since they are classified and categorized from the beginning, can be "automagically" merged into a solution that you were originally looking for. If one of the parts is stuck without a solution, you have an ability to refactor it or redirect it to some other community or expert. The bottom line is - you get a solution eventually with much higher probability than without using CPM.