What does it need to become a collaborative organization? Slides of the talk given at CN Wintercongress of Detecon Consulting in February 2015. After an introduction to the Collaborative Economy and its relation to the term "Sharing Economy", the presentation shows reasons for its rapid growth: Businesses as platforms. What are the elements of a platform? Why does it allow for rapid growth and value creation? Taking this as a basis, we translated the concept to the organizational level using OuiShare as an example. What does it need to become a truly collaborative organization? What is the culture and tools needed? What tools and organizations inspired OuiShare?

1. Collaborative Organizations:
From Ego-Systems to Eco-Systems
David Weingartner @d_weingartner
CN Winter Congress 2015 – 27th February

2. IS A GLOBAL COMMUNITY,
THINK-TANK AND DO-TANK.
OUR MISSION IS TO BUILD AND NURTURE A
COLLABORATIVE SOCIETY BY CONNECTING
PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS AND IDEAS AROUND
FAIRNESS, OPENNESS AND TRUST.
non-profit organization established in 2012 in Paris, with local chapters
now active in 15 countries in Europe, Latin America and North Africa

3. FROM BITS TO ATOMS:
20 YEARS OF HISTORY
IN 2 SENTENCES
« The past decade was about finding
new collaboration and innovation
models on the web.
The next decade will be about
applying them to the real world. »
Chris Anderson

4. CONSUMPTION
FINANCE
LEARNING
PRODUCTION
GOVERNANCE
SWARM
redistribution local food systems
p2p learning open courses & moocs
co-design / co-innovationdigital peer production distributed fabrication (makers)
p2p funding p2p payments p2p insurance compl. currencies
participatory organizations participatory government blockchain / DAO
product-service on-demand services
COLLABORATIVE ECONOMY FRAMEWORK V0.1

5. ISN´T THIS JUST PEANUTS?
WHAT ABOUT
IMPACT? Photo: Harold de Smet

8. Time to develop prototype: 3 Months
Energy use: 1,5 L / 100KM

9. coworking
crowdfunding

11. The Collaborative Economy – Opportunity or Thread for Traditional Business Models?
Source:Wikimedia

12. „First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win“
Mahatma Gandhi

13. The “Napsterization” of Material Goods?

14. Foto: Thomas Lieser
Collaboration over Competition – The Collaborative Economy Value Chain

15. The Collaborative Economy is
making use of existing assets & infrastructure
fostering social capital & communities
distributed and horizontal
empowering its actors
(mostly decoupled from natural resource use!!!)

16. Interaction
change of mindset
Platform
Distribution

17. Platform
VALUE
Provide
&
Extract

18. change of mindset
USER CENTRIC COMMUNITY CENTRIC
EMPLOYEES
QM
R&D
EQUITY
LOANS
VC
JUST IN TIME
CAPTURE VALUE DISTRIBUTE VALUE
JUST NOT MINE
CROWDFUNDING
- LENDING
- INVESTING
CROWDSOURCE
PEER REVIEW
CO-CREATE

19. • 70 million websites
• Millions of extensions &
applications
• 45 million revenue with
Automattic (2012)

21. What if organizations became platforms for their
employees to grow and create value at that scale?

22. 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
Overall
Performance
Profitability Profit Growth Sales Growth Labor
Productivity
Product
Development
Customer
Satisfaction
Innovation Product Quality
Collaboration Index Strategy Orientation Market Turbulence
Source: Frost & Sullivan, 2006
….and Why It Makes Sense

23. Remember this?
Source: Wikinomics

24. Source:AnonymousArtRevolution

25. 2011
How OuiShare got started…..

26. …. while connecting online with other passionate people
across the globe

27. 1st Summit in Paris
May 2012

28. January 2012

29. The Community
Spreads

30. projects were built on this collective

31. Local
Governments
Experts
Network
- Academia
- Think Tanks
- Thought Leaders
Innovators
- Startups & Makers
- Collab Spaces
non-profit + community
+ empowered ventures
Civil Society
- Communities
- Individuals
- NGOs
Companies
- Global Partners
- Other Companies

32. community
knowledge
incubator
education
we produce knowledge on the peer-to-peer transformation,
through research, publications, our collaborative online
magazine and participatory events, in partnerships with
academia, think tanks and our global expert network
inspiring and enabling students and professionals to apply
community thinking to the challenge of building a more
collaborative society, through interactive classes within
universities, coworking spaces and online webinars
we instigate, support and incubate meaningful projects and
experimentations from our community members and social
innovators, and enable fruitful collaborations with public
institutions and progressive companies
we are building a global network of local communities of
peer-to-peer practitioners and analysts, through events,
online groups and network weaving

33. community
think tank
do tank
education
1500+ official individual members
70 OuiShare Connectors (highly active members)
45 OuiShare local groups in 15 Countries
250+ local events organized since 2012
10 online topical groups (mobility, factory, …)
… and countless connections & network weaving

35. knowledge
think tank
do tank
education
OuiShare Collaborative Magazine : http://magazine.ouishare.net
Research & Studies : ShaRevolution, PICO research, H2020, …
Publications : several reports coming in 2015
Sharitories Program : learning and acceleration program for
municipalities to understand and foster collaborative practices

37. incubator
OuiShare Collaborative Accelerator : to be launched in 2015
POC21 : accelerator of open source sustainability
OuiKit : network of resource sharing between civic organizations
contribution or ignition of local projects : giveboxes, timebanks,
support to coworking spaces and makerspaces, ...

39. education
OuiShare Academy : hub for educational resources for the
OuiShare community + courses offering + MOOC (started in Spain)
40+ classes in leading universities : HEC, ESCP Europe, ESSEC,
Télécom ParisTech, CELSA, ENSCI, ESADE Barcelona, Swedish
Royal Institute of Technology, BI Norway, ...

41. THEY TRUSTED US & SUPPORTED US
PROJECT PARTNERS (OuiShare Fest, Research & Studies, …)
OUISHARE GLOBAL PARTNERS

42. We often refer to OuiShare as a distributed organization, with the team is distributed across
many cities worldwide, working collaboratively online and offline.
There are two main types of structures within OuiShare:
STRUCTURE IN A DISTRIBUTED ORGANIZATION
MEMBERSHIP TYPES ACTIVITY SCOPES
How people get involved within OuiShare,
what are their rights and responsibilities
How work, resources, budget and decisions
are managed among active members

43. TECHNOLOGY / TOOLS CULTURE / VALUES
A “Chicken Or Egg” – Situation?
Image: Satya.In

44. All About technology?

45. The Social Technographics Ladder by Forrester
Source: Forrester Research

46. The Social Technographics Ladder by Forrester
Find the tool here: http://empowered.forrester.com/tool_consumer.html

47. The Social Technographics Ladder by Forrester

48. The Social Technographics Ladder by Forrester

49. The Social Technographics Ladder by Forrester

50. 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Social media should be used to
foster community
Our company has guidelines for
employees on how to handle
Collaborative Working
Management examplifies
Collaborative Working through
own mode of working
Source: Steria Mummert Consulting (August 2014)
150 leaders of medium & big companies were asked…..
Preaching Water and Drinking Wine…?

51. Openness
Transparency
Independence
Impact
MPRL
Action
Permanent Beta
Feedback
Inclusion
Play
Its About the Culture!

52. „Forming an institution
is inherently
exclusionary – you cant
hire everyone to your
company who could
contribute value“
Clay Shirky
Image: Wikimedia

53. MEMBERSHIP TYPES IN OUISHARE

54. Inspiration: “Move Your Desk Policy” @ Valve

55. operations projects & programs
global
local
GLOBAL OPERATIONS
Scaffolding activities supporting the whole
OuiShare organization on a day-to-day basis
ex: team coordination, administration and accounting,
financial stewardship, partners management,
fundraising, communications, web/tech support
LOCAL COMMUNITY
Activities for local community development
(in a region, city, country, or language)
ex: local community management, events,
communication in local language, local fundraising
GLOBAL PROGRAMS
Projects and programs with a global scope
ex: OuiShare Fest, OuiShare Magazine, OuiShare Hello,
Sharitories, website V3, POC21, …
Strategic Projects can receive global funding
LOCAL PROJECTS
Projects with a local scope or relevance.
ex: ShaRevolution and PICO research programs in
France, OuiShare Academy Spain
Strategic Projects can receive global funding
Receives
Global Fund
100%
Self-Funded
ACTIVITY SCOPES

56. “Imagine a world in which your
work is fairly rewarded, in which
creativity and hard work can no
be monopolized by others.”
Tiberius Brastaviceanu - CoFounder of Sensorica
Inspiration: Open Value Networks @ Sensorica

57. Source: Sensorica

58. Source: Sensorica

60. • Sharing
• Openness
• Decentralization
• Free Access
• World Improvement

61. Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination
between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in
the environment by an action stimulates the performance
of a next action, by the same or a different agent.

62. “A swarm organization is a decentralized,
collaborative effort of volunteers that looks
like a hierarchical, traditional organization
from the outside.
It is built by a small core of people that
construct a scaffolding of go-to people,
enabling a large number of volunteers to
cooperate on a common goal in quantities
of people not possible before the net was
available.”
Servant Leadership & Self-Organization
Radical Transparency
Team Size : 7 / 30 / 150

63. Decision-Making Systems
● Majority Voting
● Consensus/Consent
● Lazy Majority Voting
● Stigmergy / Do-ocracy

64. whatis.enspiral.com

66. liquido.cocoonprojects.com

67. 1. Cut on dotted line.
2. Rotate 180 degrees.
A Simple Start…..

68. THANK YOU!
LET’S KEEP IN TOUCH
David Weingartner | david.weingartner@ouishare.net | @d_weingartner
Follow us: http://ouishare.net @OuiShare
@OuiShare_de
See you @ OuiShareFest 2015?
* Special credit to all Connectors who have inspired and contributed to this presentation

69. Good Reads & References
Collaborative Economy:
OuiShare
Collaborative Economy Honey Comb by CrowdCompanies
Platform Thinking:
• Sangeet Paul Choudary´s Blog: www.platformed.info
• Project Pentagrowth
• Wired Magazine: Platforms are eating the World
• The Economist: Platforms – Something to stand on
Collaborative Enterprise / Collaborative Organization:
• Sensorica Value Networks
• Valve Handbook for New Employees
• LiquidO by Coocoon Projects
• Loomio by enspiral
Icons (Slide 19): The Noun Project