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. — Podcast notes 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 will we see unlocked in the next few years? Michael describes how systems designers will need to be humble and leave space for systems to evolve…

This episode with Joe Justice provides a great insider look into what it means to work in a company led by Elon Musk, double-clicking on key concepts such as modularity and cash flow, and why they are so essential to rapid innovation. — Podcast notes 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…

Part 1: Understanding Ecosystems to create the right Value Propositions — Abstract It’s been quite a year for Platform Design Toolkit and in general for methodological updates here at Boundaryless. In 2022 we indeed released: a new guide and canvases set — the Platform Growth and Product Guide one key update to one of the Guides, the addition of the Arena Scan…

According to our guest Raphael Ouzan, next year’s big thing is: “cloud-based teams”. In this episode, we dive into what “cloud-based teams” mean and analyze what perspectives such teams open up for organizations. — Podcast notes Companies are having an increasingly hard time hiring the right people to work on their most pressing problems and opportunities for development. That’s why 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. …

In this episode, we talk to Alicia Juarrero about her work in complexity theory and how it applies to organizations. We also explore questions about boundaries and enabling constraints and their role in steering the direction of complex organizations. — Podcast notes 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.

Casey Winters explains how the growth model is a peculiar aspect of each company and how reducing friction is key so that growth can flow more strongly. We also discuss how the responsibilities to drive network effects often moves from local teams to more centralized functions over time, and finally how leaders should be thinking about autonomy when managing growth and product teams. — Podcast notes

Dear community! Today we are proud to announce that — in an effort to make it easier for you to quickly gather your team around your platform exploration and design challenges or your organizational evolution ambitions — we just released all of Boundaryless frameworks as Mural templates. More details templates…

Bonnitta Roy joins the show to talk about how post formal actors can give new perspectives and ways to organize, embracing the challenges we face. They can, as Bonnitta says “hedge against social collapse”. — Podcast notes 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…

Arena Scanning for Ecosystem breakdown Abstract In this post, we present the release of a new version (the 1.1) of the Platform Opportunity Exploration Guide. More in detail, we now officially integrate the Arena Scan — previously released as experimental. The Arena Scan is designed to help the platform shaper approach the initial complexity of an…