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Boundaryless Conversations Podcast

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Boundaryless Conversations Podcast is an ongoing exploration of the future of Platforms & Ecosystems.
Here we explore new perspectives about how we organise at scale in a rapidly changing world.
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#102 - Decoding the Viable System Model with Mark Lambertz

June 10, 2024 23:00 - 52 minutes - 73.2 MB

“Viable System Model” expert Mark Lambertz joins us on today’s podcast to help us unfold organizing in complex ecosystems.  Mark, a long-time Agile practitioner and a renowned expert on the Viable System Model has a deep understanding and a curious mindset toward all things organizing. We met Mark as an Organizational Coach at Bosch, where he’s driving the adoption of key concepts of the VSM. From his extensive experience, Mark has helped us understand how to use the VSM lens to build auton...

#101 - Navigating Platform Transitions with Yolanda Martin

May 27, 2024 23:00 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MB

Yolanda Martin Olivas, Global VP of Design, ClearScore, joins us on this episode to talk about the challenges and strategies involved in building platform capabilities within organizations.  From her experience of building platforms at companies like Farfetch, Hearst, Canonical, Kaluza, and ClearScore etc., she takes us through the realities (sometimes difficult) of what it’s like to enable platform transformation and growth. She argues for organizations to rethink the “growing through acq...

#100 - Learning Centered Organizations for the 21st Century with Indy Johar

May 13, 2024 23:00 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MB

Indy Johar, Mission Steward of Dark Matter Labs, joins the podcast to help us rethink how we organize ourselves and our systems, addressing inadequacies of traditional business models that are no longer sufficient for managing complexities. Bringing light to how “risk management should be localized, with decision-making power and accountability being as close to the problem as possible,” Indy argues for an organization that encourages participants to be citizens rather than employees and fo...

#99 - The State of Platforms in 2024 with Kelly Sarabyn and Scott Brinker

April 29, 2024 23:00 - 56 minutes - 78.3 MB

In today’s episode, we have Kelly Sarabyn and Scott Brinker from HubSpot, who take us through their latest report on the State of Platforms in 2024.  HubSpot has always considered industry education as central to developing its business and brand, and - in combination with some of its partners - released this great report earlier this year. The report profoundly covers how firms now adopt platform strategies to thrive in a digital economy ranging from app ecosystems to services marketplaces...

#98 - Sandwich Economics: a New Era of Competition with Sangeet Paul Choudary

April 15, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour - 89.7 MB

We have a three-time returning guest on the podcast today, Sangeet Paul Choudary - certainly one of the most influential minds in the world of modern business. Sangeet, an advisor and best-selling author, known for his work on platform economics and network effects, joins us to take us through the next era of competition in business: Sandwich Economics. He speaks on the principles of the new phenomenon and shares insights into how organizations are now increasingly  "sandwiching" markets v...

#97 - R.I.P. Agile, Long Live Agile 2 with Cliff Berg

April 01, 2024 23:00 - 59 minutes - 82 MB

On today’s podcast, we host someone who - has been at the forefront of the Agile revolution, and, at the same time, became one of Agile movement's most vocal critics, to the extent, that he dared to say: “R.I.P Agile”. Cliff Berg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Agile 2 Academy, and a leading figure in Agile and DevOps advising joins our podcast bringing his fresh perspectives on the decline of Agile. He also gives us a peek into the story of a book he recently co-authored, ‘Agile 2: The...

#96 - Building Calm Technology and Organizations with Amber Case

March 19, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 92 MB

We rarely (if ever) get to host a cyborg anthropologist on our podcast, so we are thrilled to have Amber Case join us as a special guest for this episode.  Amber, who works at the intersection of human and technology interactions, shares her journey into envisioning what a calm technology is. Calm Technology is a design philosophy that advocates for technology to integrate into our lives, enhancing our ability to focus rather than distracting us. She takes us through everyday objects that h...

#95 - Avoiding the Agile Bureaucracy with Rosa and Hjorteland

March 05, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 87 MB

In today’s episode, we are joined by João Rosa and Trond Hjorteland, two organizational consultants with a unique point of view, who take us through the depth of Open Systems Theory, and what it means to be socio-technical practitioners, passionate about transitioning democratic organizations to fast-flowing operational models.  With many years of experience in large and complex contexts, they delve into what it means to create a collaborative and democratic organization, and how to balance...

#94 - Susanne Kaiser on Building the Right Things (& Building Things Right)

February 20, 2024 00:00 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MB

An independent tech consultant with over 20 years, Susanne Kaiser joins the podcast and shares her insights on what makes a robust socio-technical system. Integrating takeaways from different approaches like Wardley Mapping, Domain Driven Design, and Team topologies, she helps the listeners understand how to mold systems into ones that are adaptable to change, how to invest in the right things, and how to avoid wasting resources on things that do not make a competitive advantage.  We furth...

#93 - Beyond the Code: Jeremiah Owyang on the New Era of AI

February 06, 2024 00:00 - 49 minutes - 68.4 MB

Jeremiah Owyang, a veteran with a vantage point of Silicon Valley and current General Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures joins us for the second time on the podcast. While he is now working on identifying and nurturing AI startups, this episode reflects his art of captivating audiences. He takes us through the exponential growth of AI startups, its implications on creativity, health, wellness, and productivity, the ethical considerations surrounding its adoption, and the potential of AI to dem...

#92 - Why Enterprise Architecture is not (just) about Technology: with Charles Betz

January 23, 2024 00:00 - 53 minutes - 74.2 MB

Join us on this episode as we sit down with Charles Betz, a leading authority in enterprise architecture-related research. With a career dedicated to understanding how digitally enabled organizations (should) operate at scale, Charles is the VP and Research Director of Enterprise Architecture at Forrester. Tune in as he discusses the evolution of technology, the challenges faced by enterprises as they integrate digital, and the critical and evolving role of enterprise architecture in modern ...

#91 Rethinking Development: UNDP’s Journey from Projects to Portfolios

January 09, 2024 00:00 - 57 minutes - 80.5 MB

Join us as we delve into a thought-provoking conversation with Milica Begovic and Giulio Quaggiotto, current and former Head of Strategic Innovation at the UNDP, as they shed light on how they are reshaping the approach to global development by transitioning from traditional project methods to a portfolio approach. Tune in as we unpack the need for this systemic change and recognize how deep organizational shifts are required to the complexities of today's most pressing challenges.  At Boun...

#90 - Enjoying Building Simple Products with Jason Fried

December 26, 2023 00:00 - 53 minutes - 74.8 MB

We are truly honored to host Jason Fried, co-founder of 37Signals and the mastermind behind Basecamp, and Hey for one of our deepest episodes. A leading critical voice in startup culture and product design, Jason delves into challenging conventional business approaches with a focus on simplicity, enjoyment, and nimbleness. In the second part of the conversation, Jason also hints into what he calls a Post-SaaS era that he intends to kickstart with a new suite of products called Once. This is...

#89 - Why Building On Chain: The Case for Web3 with Jesse Walden

December 12, 2023 00:00 - 49 minutes - 69.5 MB

We talked Web3 with Jesse Walden, a true veteran in the crypto and blockchain space. All the conversation revolves around a deep question: why should we build on chain? Join us as Jesse shines a light on the path forward - and on the key outstanding questions for  Web3.  In this episode, we discuss the future of the internet with Jesse Walden - Founder of Variant Fund and Web3 legend. Jesse - is one the most pivotal shapers of the landscape of user-owned internet - and an early-stage crypto...

#88 - Pioneering Digital Public Infrastructure in India with Arvind Gupta

November 28, 2023 00:00 - 49 minutes - 46.8 MB

We discuss India's digital evolution with Arvind Gupta, exploring the country's unique approach to digital inclusion and decentralized networks. Arvind shares his experiences from academia to the key ideas behind Digital Public Infrastructure, emphasizing digital empowerment.  Tune in, and discover how India's digital model is not only redefining technology as we know it, but also setting a precedent for the global landscape. In this episode, we sit down with Arvind Gupta, Head and Co-Found...

#87 BeyondFrames: Living the Networked Society with John Robb

November 14, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 90.1 MB

John Robb, an expert in networked societies and tribal dynamics, returns to the podcast after more than three years, with some thought-challenging discussions.  In this episode, Robb takes us through the inherent destructive nature of networked tribes and provides a unique perspective on our global civilizations trajectory. He touches on dissent dynamics driven by social media, the danger in the concentration of power due to the transformative effect of AI, all while resonating its impact ...

#86 Scaling Continuous Discovery in Product Portfolios with Teresa Torres

October 31, 2023 00:00 - 49 minutes - 68.8 MB

We are elated to host Teresa Torres, the renowned product discovery coach behind Product Talk, on our podcast. Drawing from her vast experience, from her collaborations with industry giants like Spotify and Tesco, but also with small, nimble startup teams we discuss about implementing continuous discovery inside organizations, across teams, driven by business outcomes. Together, we explore the intricacies, challenges, and opportunities of coordinating in complex product landscapes and what i...

#85 Product-Centric Organizations (Portfolios, Taxonomies) with Craig Strong

October 16, 2023 23:00 - 55 minutes - 76.9 MB

In this episode, we explore what a product centric organization looks like, with our guest Craig Strong. Sharing his experience from being a Global Practice Leader at AWS (Amazon Web Services), a seasoned Chief Technology & Product Officer, he helps us dive deeper into the nuances of adopting organizational designs, cultures, and practices that cater to product-customer centricity.  A true product operating model specialist, he has helped countless startups and enterprises to modernize and ...

#84 Gardening Platforms and the Future of Open Ecosystems with Alex Komoroske

October 02, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 88.8 MB

In our first episode this season, we dive into the world of open platforms and the future of organizing. With his thought-provoking presentation of “Gardening Platforms”, our guest Alex Komoroske, helps create a shift in mindset towards a more achievable and sustainable approach in creating impactful technology solutions. We explore his key learnings from leading products at Google Chrome, and how he continues to implement these in his own journey today. Talking on questions of morality, con...

The Boundaryless Conversation Podcast: Season 5 is coming

September 27, 2023 17:00 - 1 minute - 2.04 MB

We’re back at the Boundaryless Conversations Podcast, with an all new Season No. 5.  Join us, as we bridge the worlds of technology, geopolitics, culture, and policymaking. We take a dive deep into the fabric of tomorrow's world, sharing inspiring stories from innovative organizations leading the way in product and platform development. Learn how to build resilient, adaptable entities that thrive amidst change. Stay informed, break free from echo chambers, and become a change-maker in your ...

Season Wrap Up: Emerging Questions on the Future of Platform Organizations

July 12, 2023 23:00 - 19 minutes - 28.2 MB

In this season wrap up, podcast hosts Simone Cicero and Stina Heikkilä talk about the new research compass of Boundaryless and ruminate on some of the gems of the season. Simone and Stina also share some highlights from the long list of episodes of the Boundaryless Conversations podcast — almost 90 and counting! — and provide some pointers for future research. It’s worth catching up with the ideas in the recent blog A Research Compass: Platform-Ecosystem Thinking in 2023 when listening to th...

S04 Ep. 20 Bill Fischer and Lisa Gansky - A Situational Update on our Ecosystemic Future

July 10, 2023 23:00 - 54 minutes - 76 MB

In this season’s final episode, we talk to Bill Fischer and Lisa Gansky about how our old ideas of what's normal are disappearing. There is a need to bridge the gap between old and emerging systems, encouraging exploration and experimentation to unlock our Ecosystemic Future. Bill Fischer has spent his entire career involved in innovation, from being a practicing development engineer in industry and government; to being an academic researcher, teacher and writer; to being involved in severa...

S04 Ep. 19 Justice Conder - Smart Contracts: eating the 1st Mile of Agile Organizations

June 26, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 83.3 MB

In this episode we dive into the world of smart contracts and their remarkable impact on organizational design. Our guest Justice Conder provides a thought-provoking introduction to what he calls the third law of nature of smart contracts. We explore the transformative journey from traditional corporations to the realm of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) keeping a non ideological mindset and examining the challenges of bridging the gap between the two paradigms. Justice Conder ...

S04 Ep. 18 Design in the 2020s: More Agency, Less Control with Christian Bason

June 12, 2023 23:00 - 54 minutes - 76 MB

Join us in our latest podcast episode as we delve into the world of design with Dr. Christian Bason, CEO of the Danish Design Center. We explore the crucial role of how we think - the “thinking” part of design thinking - in addressing global challenges. Drawing from one of his latest books "Expand: Stretching the Future By Design", co-authored with Jens Martin Skibsted, Christian introduces the concept of six expansions: time, proximity, life, value, dimensions, and sectors. These expansion...

S04 Ep. 17 Nafeez Ahmed - Organizing for a Decade of Global Phase-Shift

May 29, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 89.5 MB

Dr. Nafeez Ahmed joins the show to share his insights about the disruptive nature of technological progress and how it impacts society. He brings our attention to how the transformation of five fundamental production sectors - energy, transport, food, information, and materials - urges organizations to prepare for a decade of global phase shift.   In this episode, Dr Nafeez Ahmed helps us gain a better understanding of how exponential technological advancements and economic factors are resh...

S04 Ep. 16. Spela Prijon and Sascha Kellert - 4 dimensions of Ownership Economy: Ownco

May 15, 2023 23:00 - 42 minutes - 59.7 MB

Špela Prijon and Sascha Kellert join us to share the latest news from Ownco - a platform that combines the best aspects of cooperatives, DAOs, and traditional startups to make shared ownership and the ownership economy more fluid and accessible. Ownco’s approach to distributing ownership moves along four key dimensions - Upsides, Status, Influence, Redemption - and is an approach born through testing hypotheses and assessing the actual results produced by early adopters.  For example, throu...

S04 Ep. 16. 4 dimensions of Ownership Economy: Ownco - with Spela Prijon and Sascha Kellert

May 15, 2023 23:00 - 42 minutes - 59.7 MB

Špela Prijon and Sascha Kellert join us to share the latest news from Ownco - a platform that combines the best aspects of cooperatives, DAOs, and traditional startups to make shared ownership and the ownership economy more fluid and accessible. Ownco’s approach to distributing ownership moves along four key dimensions - Upsides, Status, Influence, Redemption - and is an approach born through testing hypotheses and assessing the actual results produced by early adopters.  For example, throu...

S04 EP. 15 Mark van Rijmenam - Navigating Hype Cycles in Tech: Communities, Prototyping, and Convergence

May 01, 2023 23:00 - 48 minutes - 67.7 MB

In this new episode of the Boundaryless Conversation Podcast, Mark van Rijmenam examines the hype cycle surrounding AI and the perceived decline of interest in the Metaverse. He argues that these emerging technologies are not mutually exclusive and that the Metaverse still has significant potential for development with the application of AI.   Dr Mark van Rijmenam is an international keynote speaker, author and entrepreneur. He is a leading future tech strategist who thinks about how techno...

S04 Ep. 14. Barry O’Reilly Software architecture for a rapidly changing world

April 17, 2023 23:00 - 53 minutes - 74.6 MB

Most software architects represent the environment in a very static way, and from that static representation, produce static software. As a result, the software structure they create is like a picture of a picture…used to describe what is actually a movie. This problem, rooted in a mechanistic worldview, is where Barry O'Reilly’s Residuality Theory was born. Residuality Theory - in very few words - is a method of designing software architectures inspired by how the most talented architects ...

S04 Ep. 13. Joni Baboci - Cities in Flux: from Bureaucratic control to Participatory Ecosystems

April 03, 2023 23:00 - 53 minutes - 75.2 MB

In this podcast, we dive into the shift towards a more decentralized and organic approach to city planning with Joni Baboci, an architect, planner, and urban enthusiast. We discuss how the modernist paradigm of deconstructing everything into individual parts and putting them back together linearly is becoming less relevant. Instead, we see a shift towards a more organic, bottom-up approach that looks at the city as a complex and multi-layered system. Joni Baboci is the founder of Layer, a s...

S04 Ep. 12. Alberto Brandolini - On Domain-Driven Design and the challenges of reaching Agreements

March 20, 2023 23:00 - 55 minutes - 76.9 MB

Alberto Brandolini joins the podcast as a sparring partner in our exploration of one of the most “burning” issues in our research: the intrinsic links between language, software and organizational design. We explore the role of domain-driven design and, more generally, the role of visualization and context mapping in the process that we call "ontological convergence" i. e. how we agree on standards, converge on using common models and build common tools, protocols and infrastructures.  Albe...

S04 Ep. 11. Geoff Mulgan - Architecting the next generation of Institutions

March 07, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes - 61.1 MB

In this episode, we are joined by Sir Geoff Mulgan to explore the potential of an emergent discipline of organizational architecture, where the diversity of organizational models and their features are studied and assessed in a more robust and systematic way - similar to in the field of buildings architecture. Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE is a Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Prior to his current position, he served as the...

S04 Ep. 10 Scott Brinker – Serving joint customer needs through a modular Platform at HubSpot

February 21, 2023 00:00 - 56 minutes - 78.3 MB

Scott Brinker takes us on a journey exploring Hubspot’s fascinating platform strategy, where competitive overlaps between Hubspot’s own hubs and products and third-party developers in the ecosystem are treated as a good thing, and where recognizing and serving the “joint customer need” is the real focus. Scott is VP Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot, helping to grow and nurture the company's community of technology partners. He writes the chiefmartec.com blog, covering marketing technology mana...

S04 Ep. 09 Jocelynn Pearl – The best use case of Web3 so far: DeSci

February 07, 2023 00:00 - 44 minutes - 62 MB

Jocelynn Pearl is a biotech scientist, podcaster, and company builder. She co-founded LabDAO, a web3 marketplace for life science research, and curates The DeSci Wiki, which tracks projects and DAOs in the web3 x science sector. She is also the host of the Lady Scientist Podcast and of the UltraRare The Podcast, a show featuring leaders in DeSci. DeSci or Decentralized Science (like the acronym DeFi for decentralized finance) expands some of the principles of blockchain technology and distr...

S04 Ep. 08 Thomas H. Davenport and Laks Srinivasan – Making AI-ready Organizations

January 24, 2023 00:00 - 58 minutes - 80.1 MB

In this episode we talked to Tom Davenport and Laks Srinivasan from Return on AI Institute (ROAI) about how AI is empowering and challenging organizational models worldwide, and how the platform business model is often based on AI capabilities in the background.  Tom is a world-renowned thought leader and author on AI. He is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, as well as a fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, a ...

S04 Ep. 07 Michael Zargham – Designing beyond the machine: Tokens, Blockchain & Contracts

January 10, 2023 00:00 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MB

Michael Zargham, founder and CEO of BlockScience and Board Member of the Metagov Project, shares his views on how Blockchain and other emerging technologies are making new ways of organizing possible. Yet, Michael believes that, so far, we are not  fully using the potential of these affordances to create something new.  Smart contracts are becoming widespread, but does the relationship between crypto and organizing stop there? What’s next? Which new “non-familiar” possibilities of design wi...

S04 Ep. 06 Joe Justice – Working at a Musk Company: Modularity, Innovation and Cash flow

December 27, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 91.5 MB

The guest of this episode is Joe Justice. Joe is a legend of Agile and helped implement Agile across the world in more than 20 countries. He has led Agile practices at incredible companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, Tesla, Toyota, NEC, and KDDI. In the early 2010s, his passion for mechanical engineering led him to found Wikispeed, a not so usual open source car manufacturing company that pioneered the implementation of Agile practices in manufacturing, became a global sensation,...

S4 Ep. 5 Raphael Ouzan – Growing and evolving organizations through Cloud Teams

December 13, 2022 00:00 - 53 minutes - 74 MB

According to our guest Raphael Ouzan, next year's big thing is: “cloud-based teams”. Companies are having an increasingly hard time hiring the right people to work on their most pressing problems and opportunities for development. To overcome this, Raphael has founded A.Team, the world’s first cloud-team formation platform, that enables companies to form, manage, and scale external, remote teams, instantly. Its TeamGraph connects highly-skilled thousands of the top product builders in an inv...

S04 Ep. 04 Alicia Juarrero - The Biological Reality of Organizing

November 29, 2022 00:00 - 49 minutes - 68.9 MB

Alicia Juarrero is founder and president of VectorAnalytica with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Miami, where she is also currently a research associate. She is the author of the book Dynamics in Action (2008), and the upcoming Context Changes Everything (2023), both at MIT Press. We've all heard about how organizations are like natural organisms, but is that really true? And if it is, how can we get inspired from nature in designing and understanding them?  In this episod...

S4 Ep.03 Casey Winters - Design, Growth & Evolution of Product Organizations

November 15, 2022 00:00 - 50 minutes - 70.3 MB

Casey Winters is a growth advisor and operator that helps companies scale. Casey is a legend of product growth and marketplaces, and, among many other things, he’s an advisor and operator that helps companies deal with the problem of scale. Most recently, Casey was the Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite: before that he had tremendous experience working for and advising companies such as Grubhub, Pinterest, Airbnb, Canva, Thumbtack, Reddit, Hipcamp, Faire and many others. Casey also is a par...

S4 Ep.02 Bonnitta Roy - Post-Formal Actors inside Organizations: from Deviants to Lifeboats

October 31, 2022 23:00 - 45 minutes - 63.3 MB

Bonnitta Roy is a pioneer in education. She’s the founder of Alderlore Insight Center, the POP-UP School, and C-LABS. She teaches insight practices for individuals who are developing meta-cognitive skills, (ed: thinking about thinking) and hosts collective insight retreats for groups interested in breaking away from typical limiting patterns of thought. In addition, she also teaches a masters course in consciousness studies and trans-personal psychology at the Graduate Institute. As an educ...

S4 Ep.01 Chase Chapman - Modularity, Autonomy and Agreements: the future of DAOs and Orgs

October 17, 2022 23:00 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MB

Chase Chapman is a DAO researcher at Metropolis, focused on exploring how DAOs will shape the way humans think about and engage in work. She is an angel investor, host of “On the Other Side”, a podcast exploring the human side of web3, and spends most of her time collaborating with and writing about DAOs. DAOs - Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - represents one of the most interesting concepts in the blockchain enabled space. A DAO is a self-governing organization that is independent ...

The Boundaryless Conversations Podcast is back with Season 4

October 05, 2022 13:24 - 1 minute - 1.82 MB

The Boundaryless Conversations Podcast is the podcast where pioneers, thinkers, and entrepreneurs talk about the future of business models, organizations, markets, and society. With Simone Cicero and Stina Heikkila (and other occasional co-hosts) you will explore the future of Platforms & Ecosystems and discover the newly emerging perspectives on how we organize at scale in a rapidly changing world. The Boundaryless Conversations Podcast is for those who are trying to reinvent their organi...

Respond to our Podcast Community Survey!

August 18, 2022 01:00 - 1 minute - 991 KB

We are soon about to launch the 4th season of the Podcast. Before doing so, we would like to explore with our community the value you perceive from the podcast, how to improve it and how to make it more sustainable on our side. We’re proud to have released 62 Episodes so far in three series, interviewing key voices that are shaping the way we build scalable, ecosystemic, and platform-based organizations: we now kindly ask you to share your feedback to help us move forward. Please fill out...

S3 Ep.20 Gigi Levy Weiss – Investing in Platforms today: Learning, Data drivenness, and Web3

August 01, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 91.8 MB

A Founding Partner at NFX, Gigi heads up NFX Israel and is widely known as one of the most prolific investors in the region. Gigi has founded several startups, including Playtika, Beach Bum (acquired by Voodoo), InceptionVR and Ridge. He was also the CEO of 888 Holdings, one of the world's leading online gaming companies, and a Division President of Amdocs, a leading billing and CRM provider. In 2014, Gigi was appointed to Facebook's EMEA Client Advisory Council. In 2015 he joined the superv...

S3 Ep.19 Sangeet Choudary – Composability beyond software: building ecosystemic portfolios

July 18, 2022 23:00 - 58 minutes - 81 MB

Sangeet Choudary is a returning guest to the show, and in this episode we unpack some key insights from his latest work – ‘The Building Blocks Thesis’.  Sangeet Paul Choudary is the founder of Platformation Labs and the best-selling author of Platform Revolution and Platform Scale. He has advised the leadership of more than 30 of the Fortune 500 firms and has been selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Sangeet's work on platforms has been selected by Harvard Business...

S3 Ep. 18 Lisa Gill – Looking Beyond Teal

July 08, 2022 07:54 - 55 minutes - 76.6 MB

Lisa Gill is an organisational self-management coach and trainer with Tuff Leadership Training. She was included in the Thinkers50 Radar 2020 for her work with self-managing teams. Lisa is also the host of the Leadermorphosis podcast, for which she has interviewed thought leaders and practitioners from all over the world about the future of work, and the author of 'Moose Heads on the Table: Stories About Self-Managing Organisations from Sweden' (2020).    Tune in to this episode as we disc...

S3 Ep. 17 Trach – DAOs are Orgs: Moving at the speed of trust (in a trustless environment)

June 20, 2022 23:00 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MB

Today we're joined by Tracheopteryx - or Trach - Pioneer of decentralized governance, operations, and compensation systems. Trach is co-founder of Coordinape and previous contributor to yearn finance.   In this conversation, we delve into what DAOs are and why the future lies in this framework. We also talk about the connection between ownership and decision making, striving for a 'trustless' infrastructure, why we might not see companies like Apple or Google 'go DAO' soon, the role of six...

S3 Ep. 16 Rob Solomon – Building permissionless Ecosystems: Data and infrastructure at DIMO

June 06, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 88 MB

Today we’re joined by former guest to the show, Rob Solomon, a cofounder at DIMO, a blockchain enabled IoT protocol for mobility. His background is in finance, investing, and organizational design. Most recently, he worked at Consensys, the largest Ethereum focused development company, with a focus on finance, internal economics, and decentralizing the organization. Prior to that, he was at Vroom, a pioneer in the online used-car marketplace sector. He started his career at the Downtown Proj...

S3 Ep. 15 Phoebe Tickell – Growing Institutional Imagination Capacity and Collective Intelligence in a Complex World

May 23, 2022 23:00 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MB

Phoebe Tickell is a biologist and systems thinker developing methodologies and approaches  suited for a better world. She is an innovator with a background in the biological sciences, technology, social entrepreneurship and systems design. She left the scientific academy with the knowledge that an understanding of complex systems could be applied to real world pressing issues and that bridges were needed to stretch from theory to practice.  She works across multiple societal contexts applyi...

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