Boundary Spanning:
Richard L. Daft in 1989, in "Organizational Theory and
Design"
a person who's role is linking people in organizations, across
the "boundaries" of departments, and across the boundaries of
companies themselves.
Open Business
Peer ProductionNetworks
Market Economies
Create Connections
Open Business:Transparency, and working in the open
Open Business:
Devolve Power
Co-governed, Co-ownership
Community/Customer Driven
People over Profits
Open Business:
Sharing Revenue
Systematically Pooling Resources
Work to increase carrying capacity
of contributors to commons
(positive externalities)
Open Business Models Wiki
Hivehttp:/socialsynergyweb.net/cgi-bin/wiki/FrontPage
Goals of Open Business ModelsWiki Hive:
Testing Theory Through Action
Pooling Knowledge and ExperienceTo Accelerate Growth of
Projects
Creating Knowledge Commons of Open Business Building Blocks
Open Business Building Blocks:
Open Business Building Blocks:
Open Web Standards
Open Business Building Blocks:Open Source Software
Open Business Building Blocks:Resource Pooling for
Independents
...chairs and sofas, wireless internet, and interesting people
to talk to, collaborate with, and bounce ideas off of.
Pooling costs
Pooling leads
Partnering work
Pooling knowledge
Extending networks
Open Business Building Blocks:Network Sharing
Open Business Building Blocks:Network Sharing
Open Business Building Blocks:Network Sharing
Open Business Building Blocks:P2P Venture
An international initiative that seeks to create an open,
reproducible process.
a physical camp where entrepreneurs meet
and spend a couple of intense days working with mentors
to improve their business documents and presentations.
Projects are evaluated on many dimensions.
At the end of the camp, investors choose to fund projects
Advantages of the model
Valuation is taken out of the process
Entrepreneurs know what they will be offered
Decision to invest or not is taken out
We select the 5+ best presented projects
The time investment is pre-defined and limited
Advantages doing it today
A vast tank of projects
Influential networks
BarCamp, OpenCoffee, BarCampBank,..
Blogosphere
A potentially strong relay by conventional medias
Current Evolution:
From platform for venture capitalto platform for Peer
investing
Time line may be longer.
Community drives focus of processes
Open Business Building Blocks:Revenue Sharing and
User-Ownership
Sharing revenue with people who were traditionally the
customer/user/consumer.
Giving them a stake in the ownership
Open Business Building Blocks:Revenue Sharing Example:XTIN
Project Points System
Open Business Building Blocks:Revenue Sharing Example:XTIN
Project Points System
All phases of production, distribution, marketing of project are
opento participation by community. Participants earn points,
whichtranslate into revenue shares (sales of movie, posters,
merchandiseweb comic).
XTIN teams up with other open projects in other mediums, to
createprocess network, pool resources, and spread awareness through
enthusiast communities.
Project shares revenue/advances back to open source software
communities.
Open Business Building Blocks:Revenue Sharing Example:XTIN
Project Points System
Many participants NOT motivatedby money.
Project is therefore not organizedaround money alone:
Parallel processes
Open Marketing:Clue Train Manifesto
There's a new conversation(between those inside and outsideof
your business).
Marketing (un) Commons:Hugh MaCleodThe Hughtrain manifesto
Open Marketing Example:
Peer Production of Physical Goods:
Applying the many of the same principles as other open business
models
Sharing knowledge/ Open Design
Recovering materials for re-use to create technical cycle
Simple machines can be used to make more complex machines
Simple Machines:
multimachine
Simple Machines:
rep rap
Used to make....
Sustainable Energy
MaterialsRecovery
More complexmachines
Coworking Model Can Be Applied To:
Share cost of machinery
Share costs of working space
Share Open Designs
Share ideas and experience
