Presentation by Teemu Arina at Mindtrek on 1st of October 2009. Video recording + blog post + Stafford's 1974 address available here: http://tarina.blogging.fi/2009/10/04/real-time-web-and-management-cybernetics/

1. COLLABORATIVE EDGE
Real-time Social Technologies in Organizations
October 2009
Teemu Arina
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2. INCREASING COMPLEXITY

3. HUMANITY INC.

4. GLOBAL ORGANIZATION CHART

5. INTERACTION TECHNOLOGY
Core is information Core is interaction
Ref: Esko Kilpi

6. REAL-TIME ECONOMY

7. realtimeeconomy.net

8. ?

9. MANAGEMENT
CYBERNETICS

10. CYBERSYN PROJECT
“What you are about to hear today is
revolutionary – not only because this
is the first time that this is applied in
the world – it is revolutionary
because we are making a deliberate
effort to GIVE THE PEOPLE THE POWER
that science gives to us, enabling
them to use it freely.”
– Stafford Beer, 1970

11. Ref: Stafford Beer

12. REAL-TIME OPERATIONS ROOM
Real-time computer controlled planned economy
Opsroom, Chile, 1970-1973 MULTINODE_METAGAME, Turkey, 2009

13. REDUCTIONISM

14. 4 M’s
• MEN
COMPLEXITY
VARIETY
• MATERIALS
• MACHINERY
• MONEY
Ref: Stafford Beer

15. VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL
"A self-organized system must be always
alive and without finalizing, since
conclusion is another name for death."
– Stafford Beer

16. }
REDUCTIONIST
VS. PARADIGM
CYBERNETIC
top-down, management driven

17. }
REDUCTIONIST
VS. PARADIGM
CYBERNETIC
bottom-up, people driven

18. ORGANIC ENTERPRISE

19. WE ARE ORGANISMS

20. SKELETON
Automation and
operative technologies
Back-bone for business processes.

21. SENSES
(Micro)blogs
Reflection in and on action.

22. NERVOUS SYSTEM
Feeds, search and APIs
Sharing, discovering and
tapping into reflections.

23. BRAIN
Wikis and tags
Connecting and remixing reflections.

24. BLOOD SYSTEM
Social networking and
virtual collaboration
Optimizing interaction flow.

25. ORGANIC ENTERPRISE
Feeds, search, APIs Wikis and tags
Sharing, discovering and Connecting and remixing
tapping into reflections reflectons
(Micro)blogs
Reflection in and on action
Social networking and
virtual collaboration
Optimizing interaction flow
Automation and
operative technologies
Back-bone for business processes

26. FACTORIES
DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS

27. REAL-TIME WEB IN
THE ENTERPRISE

28. The web is transitioning from mere interactivity to a
more dynamic, real-time web where read-write
functions are heading towards balanced
synchronicity.
The real-time web is the next logical step in
the Internet’s evolution.
– OM Malik, Giga OM (2009)

29. FROM PAGES
TO STREAMS

30. AGGREGATION

31. REAL-TIME

32. PERSONALIZATION

33. VISUALIZATION
Ref: Gapminder

34. WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON

35. "If you want to create change,
you must challenge not only
the models of Unreality,
but THE PARADIGMS
that underwrite them."
– Stafford Beer, 1970

36. TIME TO THROW SOME TOMATOES
Teemu Arina
ceo - dicole ltd.
tarina.blogging.fi
www.dicole.com
teemu@dicole.com
“Imagination is more
important than knowledge”
– Albert Einstein
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