collaborative edge: real-time social technologies in organizations

COLLABORATIVE EDGEReal-time Social Technologies in Organizations

October 2009

Teemu Arinatar1na

INCREASING COMPLEXITY

HUMANITY INC.

GLOBAL ORGANIZATION CHART

Core is information Core is interaction

Ref: Esko Kilpi

INTERACTION TECHNOLOGY

REAL-TIME ECONOMY

realtimeeconomy.net

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MANAGEMENTCYBERNETICS

“What you are about to hear today is revolutionary – not only because this is the first time that this is applied in the world –  it is revolutionary because we are making a deliberate effort to GIVE THE PEOPLE THE POWER that science gives to us, enabling them to use it freely.”

– Stafford Beer, 1970

CYBERSYN PROJECT

Ref: Stafford Beer

REAL-TIME OPERATIONS ROOM

Opsroom, Chile, 1970-1973 MULTINODE_METAGAME, Turkey, 2009

Real-time computer controlled planned economy

REDUCTIONISM

• MEN

• MATERIALS

• MACHINERY

• MONEY

4 M’s

COMPLEXITY

VARIETY

Ref: Stafford Beer

VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL

"A self-organized system must be always alive and without finalizing, since conclusion is another name for death."

– Stafford Beer

REDUCTIONISTVS.

CYBERNETICPARADIGM}

top-down, management driven

REDUCTIONISTVS.

CYBERNETICPARADIGM}

bottom-up, people driven

ORGANIC ENTERPRISE

WE ARE ORGANISMS

Automation and operative technologies

Back-bone for business processes.

SKELETON

(Micro)blogsReflection in and on action.

SENSES

Feeds, search and APIs

Sharing, discovering andtapping into reflections.

NERVOUS SYSTEM

Wikis and tagsConnecting and remixing reflections.

BRAIN

Social networking andvirtual collaborationOptimizing interaction flow.

BLOOD SYSTEM

Feeds, search, APIsSharing, discovering and tapping into reflections

Wikis and tagsConnecting and remixing reflectons

Social networking and virtual collaboration Optimizing interaction flow

Automation andoperative technologies Back-bone for business processes

(Micro)blogsReflection in and on action

ORGANIC ENTERPRISE

DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS

FACTORIES

REAL-TIME WEB IN THE ENTERPRISE

The web is transitioning from mere interactivity to a more dynamic, real-time web where read-write functions are heading towards balanced synchronicity.

The real-time web is the next logical step inthe Internet’s evolution.

– OM Malik, Giga OM (2009)

FROM PAGESTO STREAMS

AGGREGATION

REAL-TIME

PERSONALIZATION

VISUALIZATION

Ref: Gapminder

WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON

"If you want to create change,you must challenge not onlythe models of Unreality,but THE PARADIGMSthat underwrite them."

– Stafford Beer, 1970

TIME TO THROW SOME TOMATOES

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge”

– Albert Einstein

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