Work Like The Network, Defrag 2008

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An election day special edition of Work like the Network. Now with case studies!

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Losing Control:8 Steps to Success in a post 2.0 World

WORKLIKETHE

NETWORK

BUSINESSES THRIVE ON THE NETWORKWHEN THEY ADAPT TO THE NETWORK

NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND

Huge assumptions. Huuuuge.

From an industrial era

To a networked one

From core competencies

To edge competencies

Networks are nothing new

It was about moving goods

HIERARCHIESBECAME 

NECESSARY TOMANAGE SCALE

A new kind of network

The economics of information have inverted

Linking = infinite value chains

http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/

Value exists externally

Change happens faster thanorganizations can process

What makes Google Google?

“Don’t 

fight th

e inter

net.”

Eric Sc

hmidt, se

mi-CEO

,

Predictability, control, process, rules

Booooooring!

What’s the opposite of those?

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WAYSTO

REFRAMETHE 

ORGANIZATION

FROMCONTROL

TOCHAOS

(1)

YOU’REJUSTA

NODE(1)

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Home sweet home

Customers lead the conversation

Even Disney’s doing it

We can handle it

“They walk fast and they walk adroitly. They give and they take, at once aggressive and accommodating. With the subtlest of motions they signal their intention to one another.”

William Whyte, City (1969)

Iteration Iteration Iteration

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/

FROMPROCESS

TOFLOW

(2)

From hierarchy

To something a little more improvisational

Waterfall to washing machine

http://www.slideshare.net/leisa/

Wikipedia

New rules and regulations

FROMDOCUMENTATION

TOCOLLABORATION

(3)

“The Incredibles” DVD Set, Disc 2

Pixar is a community in the true sense of the word. We think that lasting relationships matter, and we share some basic beliefs: Talent is rare. Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the capability to recover when failures occur. It must be safe to tell the truth.

-Ed Cartmill, President, Pixar (Harvard Business Review)

FROMFEARTO

CONFIDENCE(4)

Fear of competition

Impossible to hide

Embracing critics and whistleblowers

Youa Culpa

FROMHIDDEN

TOSHARED

(5)

Secrecy is obsolete

It’s not clear where your interests endand others begin

Honey I forgot the copyright

Edges everywhere

Edges everywhere

Edges everywhere

Edges everywhere

FROMOWNERSHIP

TOSTEWARDSHIP

(6)

In the service of a higher purpose

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir

“About week 3, I realized I wasn’t in charge anymore.” -Ted Rheingold, CEO, Dogster

Google aims to be a steward for the Internet’s decentralized nature,

its core social good.

CASE STUDYGet Satisfaction

Defaulting to public

Shock treatment

Outside innovation

Negotiating transparency and control

Networks of companies/products/customers

Networks of companies, products, and customers

CASE STUDYElection Day Special

A VOLUNTEER ARMY FED BY OPENNESS

• Voter ID Database

• iPhone App

• My.barackobama.com

• Neighborhood team leaders

• Connectedness via multiple

touchpoints (SMS, email, facebook, twitter, etc)

Hyper-networked fundraising

Foreign policy network

Bottom-up energy policy

Government as platform

SUCCESS=NUMBER OF MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS