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)
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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