Dear All,

Thank you for visiting our website. Information that you will find here as well as functionality of the site itself is very much work-in-progress. Its main purpose is not so much to tell who we are today, but rather demonstrate what aim to achieve. Thus, please don't get confused if you come across some blanked pages or if some of our definitions won't be crystal clear. We are trying to put in practise a Concept that is so novel that despite of more than twenty years of theoretical research very few people and organizations were able to achieve any practical application.

Still, I hope very soon you will start to encounter your first of many interactions with People of Imagine, our Institutions and Opportunities we’ll offer.

Imagine today is a small Community of few unknown companies, being developed by a group of enthusiasts and close friends, with different backgrounds, living in different parts of the World, but sharing inspiration about one common Goal. We are working 24/7 developing the Concept of Imagine, bringing together People and creating Foundation for ImagineWeb. Thus, in this note I’d like to make just few brief comments on the way I see Imagine today and what it means to me personally:

In the next ten to twenty years the World will become New and Different regardless of whether Imagine will or will not take place. Yet, as a war in Iraq and later developments have shown, what direction the World will take and a pace of its development seem much more uncertain. Therefore, Imagine can be seen as just one of the Scenarios that we offer for the World to follow. Whether this Scenario will ever take place is up to only the People of the World.

Imagine in my view is for anyone who doesn't want to sit simply and watch the World being shaped by someone else. It’s for anybody who wants to have their own say and to choose the Kind of World we will live in.

The World and anything related to Human will probably never be perfect. And Imagine is not an attempt to build a Perfect World. It would have been an utopia. All Imagine is really about is trying to make our World a bit better. And Opportunities for that are truly endless.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

There are four things that I have been exceptionally lucky within my life - Time, Places, People and Organizations. Imagine is nothing more than my attempt to reflect on them. Being at the very beginning of this long, but exciting journey, I'd like to thank the following People and Organizations for what they have given me:

Temirgaliev Barak Bazarbaevich, Professor at the Kazakh State Academy of Management, for putting his heart into his job, for teaching us not only economics, but, perhaps, how to care.

AIESEC, formerly the International Association of Students in Economics and Management, for my friends, career and lots of fun. But most of all for the way I see the world today and for the fundamental Values of Internationalism.

C. Kent Potter and Ernesto M. Tey for their support at the initial years of my professional career.

John P. Keys for introducing me to the field of Strategy and sharing the Concept, that has become the Concept of Imagine today- always find the way to make something better.

Messrs Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad for their fascinating book "Competing for the Future", which became a starting point for Imagine in 2000.

Scientists at Santa Fe Institute , consultants at McKinsey Firm and everybody else who has contributed to a modern research in the fields of Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems. In large the Idea of ImagineWeb had been developed based on their studies.

Editors and publishers of McKinsey Quarterly and Harvard Business Review for excellent accounts of intellectual work published on the pages of their magazines.

My dear Friends from high school, University and AIESEC, especially Assel Sardar, for their support and years of wonderful friendship.

Vimaka, who has been for many years a close friend and Beloved Soul for the most special moments of my life. Imagine has been dreamed thinking of Her. Without Her, it would have never happened.

My younger Brother for always being closed and sharing the Dream.

Our Mom for her endless Love and Care that always surrounds us. For giving away what she could have had and devoting her life to brining us up.

Our Dad for being tough and teaching discipline. For the pride that we have today being able to say that our Father is an Honest Man... An increasingly rare privilege in now days.

As for me personally Imagine isn’t so much about money. Quoting one of the Editors of HBR - "to enjoy a good book and a bottle of a good wine, you don't need much money. "

Nor is it about the fame. In the last two decades we saw enough of mega egos.

Imagine for me is about Freedom. Freedom to live my life the way I want to live it and to have my beliefs without being ashamed or afraid of them.

Imagine for me is about Care. Care for my Family, Friends and those who are dear to me. Perhaps, it is also my way to care about the World that I live in.

Imagine is also about Challenge. Challenge to see how much complexity we can really handle and to all those who still call People “good” and “evil” and want to see our world divided.

But perhaps more than anything else Imagine for me is about trying to get back my Love… Love that I once knew.