- 1. Vision and Growth Strategy
OpenKollab
2. What is OpenKollab?
A social venture with who`s mission it is to connect projects to
solve massive social problems!
A scalable open collaboration ecosystem
An example of a scalable, distributed organizational structure (an
ecosystem)
A virtual organization
A fertile community to connect with innovative and progressive
thinkers
A research and intelligence group
A active real time discussion space
An innovative investment banking model: collaborative investment
banking!
As a social venture we will:
Deliver social value
Be financially sustainable
No doubt you are wondering... How can you be all of that at the
same time?... Well....
3. OK Vision
4. Values and Principles
Openness: low (no) barrier to participation
Transparency: information and intellectual property in the public
domain
Radically Inclusive: we actively invite people to participate in
our communities.
Radically Collaborative: we actively seek to align ourselves with
others
Active Documentation: we document as much as possible facilitates
transparency and visibility and forms the basis for or consulting
processes.
5. Mission: Connect Projects To Solve Massive Social Problems
Building Ecosystems
Building Technology Platform
6. OK Operating StructureBuilding Ecosystems!
OK Ecosystem service offering provided by ecosystem in
aggregate
Ecosystem Pooled Fund
Ecosystem Development Consulting
Ecosystem Research
7. The OpenKollab Ecosystem
OpenKollab
Forward Foundation
P2P Foundation
8. TheWhat,Why and How of Ecosystem Development
Building Ecosystems
9. What Is An Ecosystem?
A natural set of relationships between a group of projects that
makes it possible that they collaborate!
Share common goals: Solve climate change problem!
Are a part of a value chain: supplier manufacturer,
distributor
Share common team members
Share common customers or markets
Etc
Manufacturer
Supplier
Distributor
10. Characteristics of Ecosystem ProjectsBalance between Autonomy
and Synergy
Autonomy
Are autonomous legal entities
Have independent brand
Have independent missions, goals etc.
Have independent information systems
Have separate teams (although overlap a possibility)
Synergy
Share sub-project(s)
Shared some goals
Share some technology infrastructure (project management,
collaborative research, simultaneous publishing, etc.)
Finding this balance is the essential problem in cross boundary
collaboration!
11. Connecting Projects Within anEcosystem
Climate Change Ecosystem
Project I
Project II
Connect via common technology infrastructure and collaboration
processes
Project III
12. Connecting Ecosystems?
What are the points of confluence?
Climate Change
Dist. Man.
Open Gov
13. Why Build Ecosystems?Functional Perspective
Connect Projects To Solve Massive Social Problems
Need To Connect Larger Organizations with Early Stage Social
Ventures
Need To Build Capacity for Projects Providing Social Value
Need Innovative Funding Models To Finance Early Stage Social
Ventures
BUILDMATURE ECOSYSTEMS
Note that this will be source of consulting revenue
BUILD EARLY STAGE ECOSYSTEMS AND FINANCE VIA POOLED FUND
14. Why Build Ecosystems?Timing Perspective: the state of
affairs
Internet connectivity penetration rates are increasing
Bandwithlimitations are being reduced
The cost of communication is dropping (thank you Skype!)
Interoperability protocols, applications etc. are evolving
Social networking platforms (Facebook...) are changing the culture
of communication
Processing power is being pushed to the edge of the network
(Smartphones etc.)
The real time infrastructure is evolving (Twitter)
15. Information flows freely across organizational boundaries
Geographic constraints are less meaningful
Structural limitations on information management dont constrain
participation (thousands of people can work on projects!)
Meetings can be run virtually
Projects can be managed asynchronously
Projects can be scaled to involve many people with minimal
incremental cost
Your communications infrastructure can be scaled to include many
people with minimal incremental cost
Why Build Ecosystems?Timing Perspective: the result
16. Why Participate In EcosystemsThe Benefits of Visibility and
Transparency
Better understanding of your context
Networking opportunities
Business opportunities
Information flow
17. Building Ecosystem Capacity
Project I
Project II
Project III
Ecosystem Pooled Fund
Ecosystem Consulting
18. What is the OK Ecosystem Pooled Fund?Collaborative Investment
Banking!
Provide loans to social ventures
Drive Collaborative Transactions by funding Groups of Projects that
work together
Develop Ecosystems by bringing groups of smaller projects together
and providing financial and consulting services
Provide consulting services to help projects prepare projects for
financing and to ensure their success.
Note that this model merges traditional corporate finance, merger
and acquisition and advisory services into one ; collaborative
investment banking!
19. Advantages of Collaborative Funding Model
Technical due diligence handled by peers
Scale mitigates risk
Mutual accountability
Support network of peers (like Grameen model)
20. What is Ecosystem Consulting?
Information about projects within an ecosystem that:
Drives Collaboration
Goals, needs, resources, relationship etc. (See Project Matching
Presentation)
Supports Scaling of Projects
Information will be ecosystem specific, for example in the
Distributed Manufacturing ecosystem, we have identified the
following Scalability Variables:
Is your output part of value chain? It is easy to use output of
project as a building block towards building other things.is your
design modular? - designed for interoperability
is your product replicable? - released under an open license,
shareable online via a clone-able repository.
Project consistently applies a local standard. (designed for
interoperability)
Sharing parts and suppliersProject is sufficiently visible in the
network.
Note that this data supports Project Matching
21. What is Ecosystem Research?
Domain specific intelligence that arises out of work conducted in
developing a particular ecosystem
Models and processes that can be abstracted from work conducted in
several different ecosystems
22. How Are Ecosystems Developed?
Identify large (macro) ecosystems; distributed manufacturing, open
Government, climate change, local foods etc.
Engage a number of projects in the space
Identify candidates for the Ecosystem Pooled Fund (if
appropriate)
Identify candidates for Ecosystem Consulting Services
Establish preliminary collaborative processes
Google Groups, real time chats
Establish collaborative infrastructure as necessary
Implement consulting services as necessary
23. How Are Ecosystems Developed?
24. How are Ecosystems Connected?
Common Technology Infrastructure
Collaboration, project management etc.
FLOWS based interoperability
Collaborative research
Common Projects and Processes
Mutual support network
Coordinated business strategies
Marketing strategies
Referral exchanges
Network development (work to build industry associations
etc.)
25. Ecosystem Development
Early Stage Ecosystems: OK will work with groups of early stage
social venture projects to form financeable ecosystems.
Mature Ecosystems: OK will work with larger organizations to help
them to identify and develop their own ecosystems.
(Note: this will be the revenue generating component of the
consulting practice)
26. Ecosystems Under Development
Early Stage Ecosystems
Distributed Manufacturing
Local Foods
Mature Ecosystems
Climate Change
27. What if 100,000,000 people were working together to solve the
problem of climate change?
The OK Platform Vision
28. Platform Strategy In Development
We are currently putting together the platform team and
crystallizing our vision:
Details on the vision can be found in the following
presentations:
Open System Mobilization Platform
Ecosystem Collaboration Platform
Project Matching
(Presentations will be forwarded up request)
29. OK Growth
30. OK Communications Infrastructure
Central to the OK mission is to maintain visibility through
actively driving dialogue via a number of communications
channels.
Blog: http://wiki.openkollab.com
Wiki: http://mudball.net/openkollab/
Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab?hl=en
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/openkollab.
LinkedIn Group
31. OK Ecosystem Communication; listservs
32. OK Revenue Model
Pooled Fund Management Fees
Consulting Fees: Mature Ecosystem Development
Target for profit as well as not-for-profit clients
33. Building the OK Consulting Practice
Early Stage Ecosystems
Mature Ecosystems
General idea is to document and develop competencies on ecosystem
development and to market these to larger organizations to help
build ecosystems around their organizations
34. Scaling the OK Network
Aggressive Outbound Communication
Active social media channels
Active on ecosystem listservs
Development of Ecosystems
Build ecosystem teams (those within ecosystems willing to work with
OK)
Build connectivity as OK participates in communications
infrastructure which is ever expanding
Aligning with Ecosystem Partners
