1. Vision and Growth Strategy
OpenKollab

2. What is OpenKollab?
A social venture with who`s mission it is to connect projects to solve massive social problems!
A scalable open collaboration ecosystem
An example of a scalable, distributed organizational structure (an ecosystem)
A virtual organization
A fertile community to connect with innovative and progressive thinkers
A research and intelligence group
A active real time discussion space
An innovative investment banking model: collaborative investment banking!
As a social venture we will:
Deliver social value
Be financially sustainable
No doubt you are wondering... How can you be all of that at the same time?... Well....

3. OK Vision

4. Values and Principles
Openness: low (no) barrier to participation
Transparency: information and intellectual property in the public domain
Radically Inclusive: we actively invite people to participate in our communities.
Radically Collaborative: we actively seek to align ourselves with others
Active Documentation: we document as much as possible facilitates transparency and visibility and forms the basis for or consulting processes.

5. Mission: Connect Projects To Solve Massive Social Problems
Building Ecosystems
Building Technology Platform

6. OK Operating StructureBuilding Ecosystems!
OK Ecosystem service offering provided by ecosystem in aggregate
Ecosystem Pooled Fund
Ecosystem Development Consulting
Ecosystem Research

7. The OpenKollab Ecosystem
OpenKollab
Forward Foundation
P2P Foundation

8. The What,Why and How of Ecosystem Development
Building Ecosystems

9. What Is An Ecosystem?
A natural set of relationships between a group of projects that makes it possible that they collaborate!
Share common goals: Solve climate change problem!
Are a part of a value chain: supplier manufacturer, distributor
Share common team members
Share common customers or markets
Etc
Manufacturer
Supplier
Distributor

10. Characteristics of Ecosystem ProjectsBalance between Autonomy and Synergy
Autonomy
Are autonomous legal entities
Have independent brand
Have independent missions, goals etc.
Have independent information systems
Have separate teams (although overlap a possibility)
Synergy
Share sub-project(s)
Shared some goals
Share some technology infrastructure (project management, collaborative research, simultaneous publishing, etc.)
Finding this balance is the essential problem in cross boundary collaboration!

11. Connecting Projects Within anEcosystem
Climate Change Ecosystem
Project I
Project II
Connect via common technology infrastructure and collaboration processes
Project III

12. Connecting Ecosystems?
What are the points of confluence?
Climate Change
Dist. Man.
Open Gov

13. Why Build Ecosystems?Functional Perspective
Connect Projects To Solve Massive Social Problems
Need To Connect Larger Organizations with Early Stage Social Ventures
Need To Build Capacity for Projects Providing Social Value
Need Innovative Funding Models To Finance Early Stage Social Ventures
BUILD MATURE ECOSYSTEMS
Note that this will be source of consulting revenue
BUILD EARLY STAGE ECOSYSTEMS AND FINANCE VIA POOLED FUND

14. Why Build Ecosystems?Timing Perspective: the state of affairs
Internet connectivity penetration rates are increasing
Bandwithlimitations are being reduced
The cost of communication is dropping (thank you Skype!)
Interoperability protocols, applications etc. are evolving
Social networking platforms (Facebook...) are changing the culture of communication
Processing power is being pushed to the edge of the network (Smartphones etc.)
The real time infrastructure is evolving (Twitter)

15. Information flows freely across organizational boundaries
Geographic constraints are less meaningful
Structural limitations on information management dont constrain participation (thousands of people can work on projects!)
Meetings can be run virtually
Projects can be managed asynchronously
Projects can be scaled to involve many people with minimal incremental cost
Your communications infrastructure can be scaled to include many people with minimal incremental cost
Why Build Ecosystems?Timing Perspective: the result

16. Why Participate In EcosystemsThe Benefits of Visibility and Transparency
Better understanding of your context
Networking opportunities
Business opportunities
Information flow

17. Building Ecosystem Capacity
Project I
Project II
Project III
Ecosystem Pooled Fund
Ecosystem Consulting

18. What is the OK Ecosystem Pooled Fund?Collaborative Investment Banking!
Provide loans to social ventures
Drive Collaborative Transactions by funding Groups of Projects that work together
Develop Ecosystems by bringing groups of smaller projects together and providing financial and consulting services
Provide consulting services to help projects prepare projects for financing and to ensure their success.
Note that this model merges traditional corporate finance, merger and acquisition and advisory services into one ; collaborative investment banking!

19. Advantages of Collaborative Funding Model
Technical due diligence handled by peers
Scale mitigates risk
Mutual accountability
Support network of peers (like Grameen model)

20. What is Ecosystem Consulting?
Information about projects within an ecosystem that:
Drives Collaboration
Goals, needs, resources, relationship etc. (See Project Matching Presentation)
Supports Scaling of Projects
Information will be ecosystem specific, for example in the Distributed Manufacturing ecosystem, we have identified the following Scalability Variables:
Is your output part of value chain? It is easy to use output of project as a building block towards building other things.is your design modular? - designed for interoperability
is your product replicable? - released under an open license, shareable online via a clone-able repository.
Project consistently applies a local standard. (designed for interoperability)
Sharing parts and suppliersProject is sufficiently visible in the network.
Note that this data supports Project Matching

21. What is Ecosystem Research?
Domain specific intelligence that arises out of work conducted in developing a particular ecosystem
Models and processes that can be abstracted from work conducted in several different ecosystems

22. How Are Ecosystems Developed?
Identify large (macro) ecosystems; distributed manufacturing, open Government, climate change, local foods etc.
Engage a number of projects in the space
Identify candidates for the Ecosystem Pooled Fund (if appropriate)
Identify candidates for Ecosystem Consulting Services
Establish preliminary collaborative processes
Google Groups, real time chats
Establish collaborative infrastructure as necessary
Implement consulting services as necessary

23. How Are Ecosystems Developed?

24. How are Ecosystems Connected?
Common Technology Infrastructure
Collaboration, project management etc.
FLOWS based interoperability
Collaborative research
Common Projects and Processes
Mutual support network
Coordinated business strategies
Marketing strategies
Referral exchanges
Network development (work to build industry associations etc.)

25. Ecosystem Development
Early Stage Ecosystems: OK will work with groups of early stage social venture projects to form financeable ecosystems.
Mature Ecosystems: OK will work with larger organizations to help them to identify and develop their own ecosystems.
(Note: this will be the revenue generating component of the consulting practice)

26. Ecosystems Under Development
Early Stage Ecosystems
Distributed Manufacturing
Local Foods
Mature Ecosystems
Climate Change

27. What if 100,000,000 people were working together to solve the problem of climate change?
The OK Platform Vision

28. Platform Strategy In Development
We are currently putting together the platform team and crystallizing our vision:
Details on the vision can be found in the following presentations:
Open System Mobilization Platform
Ecosystem Collaboration Platform
Project Matching
(Presentations will be forwarded up request)

29. OK Growth

30. OK Communications Infrastructure
Central to the OK mission is to maintain visibility through actively driving dialogue via a number of communications channels.
Blog: http://wiki.openkollab.com
Wiki: http://mudball.net/openkollab/
Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/openkollab?hl=en
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/openkollab.
LinkedIn Group

31. OK Ecosystem Communication; listservs

32. OK Revenue Model
Pooled Fund Management Fees
Consulting Fees: Mature Ecosystem Development
Target for profit as well as not-for-profit clients

33. Building the OK Consulting Practice
Early Stage Ecosystems
Mature Ecosystems
General idea is to document and develop competencies on ecosystem development and to market these to larger organizations to help build ecosystems around their organizations

34. Scaling the OK Network
Aggressive Outbound Communication
Active social media channels
Active on ecosystem listservs
Development of Ecosystems
Build ecosystem teams (those within ecosystems willing to work with OK)
Build connectivity as OK participates in communications infrastructure which is ever expanding
Aligning with Ecosystem Partners