Collaborative Organizations:

From Ego-Systems to Eco-Systems

David Weingartner @d_weingartner

CN Winter Congress 2015 – 27th February

IS A GLOBAL COMMUNITY,

THINK-TANK AND DO-TANK.

OUR MISSION IS TO BUILD AND NURTURE A

COLLABORATIVE SOCIETY BY CONNECTING

PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS AND IDEAS AROUND

FAIRNESS, OPENNESS AND TRUST.

non-profit organization established in 2012 in Paris, with local chapters

now active in 15 countries in Europe, Latin America and North Africa

FROM BITS TO ATOMS:20 YEARS OF HISTORY

IN 2 SENTENCES

« The past decade was about finding

new collaboration and innovation

models on the web.

The next decade will be about

applying them to the real world. »

Chris Anderson

CONSUMPTION

FINANCE

LEARNING

PRODUCTION

GOVERNANCESWARM

redistribution local food systems

p2p learning open courses & moocs

co-design / co-innovationdigital peer production distributed fabrication (makers)

p2p funding p2p payments p2p insurance compl. currencies

participatory organizations participatory government blockchain / DAO

product-service on-demand services

COLLABORATIVE ECONOMY FRAMEWORK V0.1

ISN´T THIS JUST PEANUTS?WHAT ABOUT

IMPACT?Photo: Harold de Smet

Time to develop prototype: 3 MonthsEnergy use: 1,5 L / 100KM

coworking

crowdfunding

The Collaborative Economy – Opportunity or Thread for Traditional Business Models?

Source:Wikimedia

„First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win“

Mahatma Gandhi

The “Napsterization” of Material Goods?

Foto: Thomas Lieser

Collaboration over Competition – The Collaborative Economy Value Chain

The Collaborative Economy is

making use of existing assets & infrastructure

fostering social capital & communities

distributed and horizontal

empowering its actors

(mostly decoupled from natural resource use!!!)

Interaction

change of mindset

Platform

Distribution

Platform

VALUE

Provide&

Extract

change of mindset

USER CENTRIC COMMUNITY CENTRIC

EMPLOYEESQMR&D

EQUITYLOANS

VC

JUST IN TIME

CAPTURE VALUE DISTRIBUTE VALUE

JUST NOT MINE

CROWDFUNDING- LENDING

- INVESTING

CROWDSOURCEPEER REVIEW

CO-CREATE

• 70 million websites

• Millions of extensions & applications

• 45 million revenue withAutomattic (2012)

What if organizations became platforms for their employees to grow and create value at that scale?

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Profitability Profit Growth Sales Growth LaborProductivity

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Collaboration Index Strategy Orientation Market Turbulence

Source: Frost & Sullivan, 2006

….and Why It Makes Sense

Remember this?

Source: Wikinomics

Source:AnonymousArtRevolution

2011

How OuiShare got started…..

…. while connecting online with other passionate people

across the globe

1st Summit in Paris

May 2012

January 2012

The Community

Spreads

projects were built on this collective

Local

Governments

Experts

Network- Academia

- Think Tanks

- Thought Leaders

Innovators- Startups & Makers

- Collab Spaces

non-profit + community

+ empowered ventures

Civil Society- Communities

- Individuals

- NGOs

Companies- Global Partners

- Other Companies

community

knowledge

incubator

education

we produce knowledge on the peer-to-peer transformation,

through research, publications, our collaborative online

magazine and participatory events, in partnerships with

academia, think tanks and our global expert network

inspiring and enabling students and professionals to apply

community thinking to the challenge of building a more

collaborative society, through interactive classes within

universities, coworking spaces and online webinars

we instigate, support and incubate meaningful projects and

experimentations from our community members and social

innovators, and enable fruitful collaborations with public

institutions and progressive companies

we are building a global network of local communities of

peer-to-peer practitioners and analysts, through events,

online groups and network weaving

community

think tank

do tank

education

1500+ official individual members

70 OuiShare Connectors (highly active members)

45 OuiShare local groups in 15 Countries

250+ local events organized since 2012

10 online topical groups (mobility, factory, …)

… and countless connections & network weaving

knowledge

think tank

do tank

education

OuiShare Collaborative Magazine : http://magazine.ouishare.net

Research & Studies : ShaRevolution, PICO research, H2020, …

Publications : several reports coming in 2015

Sharitories Program : learning and acceleration program for

municipalities to understand and foster collaborative practices

incubator

OuiShare Collaborative Accelerator : to be launched in 2015

POC21 : accelerator of open source sustainability

OuiKit : network of resource sharing between civic organizations

contribution or ignition of local projects : giveboxes, timebanks,

support to coworking spaces and makerspaces, ...

education

OuiShare Academy : hub for educational resources for the

OuiShare community + courses offering + MOOC (started in Spain)

40+ classes in leading universities : HEC, ESCP Europe, ESSEC,

Télécom ParisTech, CELSA, ENSCI, ESADE Barcelona, Swedish

Royal Institute of Technology, BI Norway, ...

THEY TRUSTED US & SUPPORTED US

PROJECT PARTNERS (OuiShare Fest, Research & Studies, …)

OUISHARE GLOBAL PARTNERS

We often refer to OuiShare as a distributed organization, with the team is distributed across

many cities worldwide, working collaboratively online and offline.

There are two main types of structures within OuiShare:

STRUCTURE IN A DISTRIBUTED ORGANIZATION

MEMBERSHIP TYPES ACTIVITY SCOPES

How people get involved within OuiShare,

what are their rights and responsibilities

How work, resources, budget and decisions

are managed among active members

TECHNOLOGY / TOOLS CULTURE / VALUES

A “Chicken Or Egg” – Situation?

Image: Satya.In

All About technology?

The Social Technographics Ladder by Forrester

Source: Forrester Research

The Social Technographics Ladder by Forrester

Find the tool here: http://empowered.forrester.com/tool_consumer.html

The Social Technographics Ladder by Forrester

The Social Technographics Ladder by Forrester

The Social Technographics Ladder by Forrester

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Social media should be used tofoster community

Our company has guidelines foremployees on how to handle

Collaborative Working

Management examplifiesCollaborative Working through

own mode of working

Source: Steria Mummert Consulting (August 2014)

150 leaders of medium & big companies were asked…..

Preaching Water and Drinking Wine…?

Openness

Transparency

Independence

Impact

MPRL

Action

Permanent Beta

Feedback

Inclusion

Play

Its About the Culture!

„Forming an institutionis inherentlyexclusionary – you canthire everyone to yourcompany who couldcontribute value“

Clay Shirky

Image: Wikimedia

MEMBERSHIP TYPES IN OUISHARE

Inspiration: “Move Your Desk Policy” @ Valve

operations projects & programs

global

local

GLOBAL OPERATIONS

Scaffolding activities supporting the whole

OuiShare organization on a day-to-day basis

ex: team coordination, administration and accounting,

financial stewardship, partners management,

fundraising, communications, web/tech support

LOCAL COMMUNITY

Activities for local community development

(in a region, city, country, or language)

ex: local community management, events,

communication in local language, local fundraising

GLOBAL PROGRAMS

Projects and programs with a global scope

ex: OuiShare Fest, OuiShare Magazine, OuiShare Hello,

Sharitories, website V3, POC21, …

Strategic Projects can receive global funding

LOCAL PROJECTS

Projects with a local scope or relevance.

ex: ShaRevolution and PICO research programs in

France, OuiShare Academy Spain

Strategic Projects can receive global funding

Receives

Global Fund

100%

Self-FundedACTIVITY SCOPES

“Imagine a world in which your

work is fairly rewarded, in which

creativity and hard work can no

be monopolized by others.”

Tiberius Brastaviceanu - CoFounder of Sensorica

Inspiration: Open Value Networks @ Sensorica

Source: Sensorica

Source: Sensorica

• Sharing• Openness• Decentralization• Free Access• World Improvement

Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in

the environment by an action stimulates the performance

of a next action, by the same or a different agent.

“A swarm organization is a decentralized,

collaborative effort of volunteers that looks

like a hierarchical, traditional organization

from the outside.

It is built by a small core of people that

construct a scaffolding of go-to people,

enabling a large number of volunteers to

cooperate on a common goal in quantities

of people not possible before the net was

available.”

Servant Leadership & Self-Organization

Radical Transparency

Team Size : 7 / 30 / 150

Scaling Out (on the Edges)

Decision-Making Systems

● Majority Voting

● Consensus/Consent

● Lazy Majority Voting

● Stigmergy / Do-ocracy

whatis.enspiral.com

liquido.cocoonprojects.com

1. Cut on dotted line.2. Rotate 180 degrees.

A Simple Start…..

THANK YOU!LET’S KEEP IN TOUCH

David Weingartner | david.weingartner@ouishare.net | @d_weingartner

Follow us: http://ouishare.net @OuiShare

@OuiShare_de

See you @ OuiShareFest 2015?

* Special credit to all Connectors who have inspired and contributed to this presentation

Good Reads & ReferencesCollaborative Economy:

OuiShare

Collaborative Economy Honey Comb by CrowdCompanies

Platform Thinking:

• Sangeet Paul Choudary´s Blog: www.platformed.info

• Project Pentagrowth

• Wired Magazine: Platforms are eating the World

• The Economist: Platforms – Something to stand on

Collaborative Enterprise / Collaborative Organization:

• Sensorica Value Networks

• Valve Handbook for New Employees

• LiquidO by Coocoon Projects

• Loomio by enspiral

Icons (Slide 19): The Noun Project