Highlights from our first whitepaper sensemaking webinar — What will it take for leaders to realize we’re at an inflection point? How will organizations build the muscles to deal with the mounting challenges and complexity of the shifts ahead? …

Premise Since we ran our inaugural Climate Narrative Circle, we’ve had some time to take stock and think about what’s next. In mid-August, Denise and I met up in Paris, outdoors at a cafe in the elegant gardens of the Palais Royal. We spent the first hour or so pondering on…

Research Update #7 — by Stina Heikkilä and Simone Cicero “Where are we?” — Eric Weinstein kept coming back to this question in his conversation with Balaji Srinivasan on The Portal podcast episode the Heretic and the Virus in late May 2020, as Srinivasan’s early predictions of Covid-19 impacts started to unfold worldwide. No…

Reflections from our sense-making session — This post is brought to you by the team at platformdesigntoolkit.com and is dispatched in our fortnightly newsletter. It’s been almost one month since we organised our first large scale online sense-making experiment: The Future of Platform-Ecosystems Thinking. Coming back from the frenzy of event organization, watching the event recordings…

Watch the plenary sessions from our sense-making event on 23 July and catch up on the background readings and podcasts that provided the framing of the event — As part of our Whitepaper research, we’ve been launching a collaborative research experiment, inviting people from our community and wider ecosystem to regular sense-making session, where we’ve been learning-by-doing what an emerging collective sense-making practice may look like. Catch up on the Whitepaper community calls organised here.

Research Update #4 — The collaborative research process that we put in motion with the Whitepaper is an experiment in collective sense-making and leveraging collective intelligence; it certainly is something that we learn together with the community as we go. …

Building collective intelligence practice — This post is dedicated to the ongoing experiment launched together with our Whitepaper research: building a collaborative research and collective sense-making practice through our monthly community calls. Here we post the most recent videos, agendas and harvesting notes, helping to keep track and to catch up on previous sessions. …

Key steps to a new Ecology of Platforms — This post is brought to you by the team at platformdesigntoolkit.com and is dispatched in our fortnightly newsletter. A few weeks ago, on February the 25th, we had the pleasure to co-host a community webinar with David Munir Nabti and Bilal Ghalib from Pitchworthy called “New Business Models for a…

Three questions for the co-founders of Pitchworthy — Meet them in our next Webinar on the 25th of February 2020, 6.20 PM — 8.20 PM (CET) ! In our next Webinar — Platform design: new business models for a new world of business — we will cross the topics of platform-ecosystem design and inclusive economies, digging into the emerging context of enterprising, human development and the definition of value in business models that promote human and planetary…