News from the avalanche
Things are changing in front of our eyes. As I said we need an avalanche of innovations beyond the hardware and material innovation realm: Organisational, social innovation will be essential for the successful transformation to a more lasting civilisation (see Eco-Singularity is near. Solutions (III)).
The first adequate platform for the open enterprise
Just found something that might be a decisive catalyst to change the game: BetterMeans.com. They have just gone public these days. Watch the great intro video (around 4 min)!
If it works this will be a quantum leap as an innovative layout for organisations. Why? This is not just another project management platform with some cool features. BetterMeans is holding the option to reciprocally rate contributions of members. This is in the direction of more adaptive, scalable, faster and more fair economical structures – the “Fairconomy”* if you like the term.
Flatness, transparency and openness
They really apply their principles onto themselves and want to spread the good. On the pricing page you find the “zero charge” for all prjects, who keep things open and inclusive! So it is really worth a thought for social entreprises etc. to consider switching, even if they have a running platform …
The quote for the 21st century
More and more people are citing this famous quote of Einstein – you find it on the BetterMeans page too. I ask myself whether it will be the quote of our time!
The significant problems we have
cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
with which we created them
Albert Einstein
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* Actually I am not linked to other people using the term “fariconomy” in maybe a very special or narrow way e.g. the German e.V. at http://www.fairconomy.com/. They look more like a political movement with a normative core. I suppose they are having good intentions, but maybe with only a too simplistic solution portfolio – I am not quite sure what to think about their approach, that has to be checked some time.
