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Boundaryless Conversations Podcast is an ongoing exploration of the future of Platforms & Ecosystems.
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S04 Ep. 08 Thomas H. Davenp...

01.24.2023

In this episode we talked to Tom Davenport and Laks Srinivasan from Return on AI Institute (ROAI) about how AI is empowering and challenging organizational models worldwide, and how the platform business model is often based on AI capabilities in ...

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01.24.2023 S04 Ep. 08 Thomas H. Davenport and Laks Srinivasan – Making AI-ready Organizations In this episode we talked to Tom Davenport and Laks Srinivasan from Return on AI Institute (ROAI) about how AI is empowering and challenging organizational models worldwide, and how the platform business model is often based on AI capabilities in ...
01.10.2023 S04 Ep. 07 Michael Zargham – Designing beyond the machine: Tokens, Blockchain & Contracts Michael Zargham, founder and CEO of BlockScience and Board Member of the Metagov Project, shares his views on how Blockchain and other emerging technologies are making new ways of organizing possible. Yet, Michael believes that, so far, we are not ...
12.27.2022 S04 Ep. 06 Joe Justice – Working at a Musk Company: Modularity, Innovation and Cash flow The guest of this episode is Joe Justice. Joe is a legend of Agile and helped implement Agile across the world in more than 20 countries. He has led Agile practices at incredible companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, Tesla, ...
12.13.2022 S4 Ep. 5 Raphael Ouzan – Growing and evolving organizations through Cloud Teams According to our guest Raphael Ouzan, next year's big thing is: “cloud-based teams”. Companies are having an increasingly hard time hiring the right people to work on their most pressing problems and opportunities for development. To overcome this, Raphael has ...
11.29.2022 S04 Ep. 04 Alicia Juarrero - The Biological Reality of Organizing Alicia Juarrero is founder and president of VectorAnalytica with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Miami, where she is also currently a research associate. She is the author of the book Dynamics in Action (2008), and the upcoming ...
11.15.2022 S4 Ep.03 Casey Winters - Design, Growth & Evolution of Product Organizations Casey Winters is a growth advisor and operator that helps companies scale. Casey is a legend of product growth and marketplaces, and, among many other things, he’s an advisor and operator that helps companies deal with the problem of scale. ...
10.31.2022 S4 Ep.02 Bonnitta Roy - Post-Formal Actors inside Organizations: from Deviants to Lifeboats Bonnitta Roy is a pioneer in education. She’s the founder of Alderlore Insight Center, the POP-UP School, and C-LABS. She teaches insight practices for individuals who are developing meta-cognitive skills, (ed: thinking about thinking) and hosts collective insight retreats for ...
10.17.2022 S4 Ep.01 Chase Chapman - Modularity, Autonomy and Agreements: the future of DAOs and Orgs Chase Chapman is a DAO researcher at Metropolis, focused on exploring how DAOs will shape the way humans think about and engage in work. She is an angel investor, host of “On the Other Side”, a podcast exploring the human ...
10.05.2022 The Boundaryless Conversations Podcast is back with Season 4 The Boundaryless Conversations Podcast is the podcast where pioneers, thinkers, and entrepreneurs talk about the future of business models, organizations, markets, and society. With Simone Cicero and Stina Heikkila (and other occasional co-hosts) you will explore the future of Platforms ...
08.18.2022 Respond to our Podcast Community Survey! We are soon about to launch the 4th season of the Podcast. Before doing so, we would like to explore with our community the value you perceive from the podcast, how to improve it and how to make it more ...
08.01.2022 S3 Ep.20 Gigi Levy Weiss – Investing in Platforms today: Learning, Data drivenness, and Web3 A Founding Partner at NFX, Gigi heads up NFX Israel and is widely known as one of the most prolific investors in the region. Gigi has founded several startups, including Playtika, Beach Bum (acquired by Voodoo), InceptionVR and Ridge. He ...
07.18.2022 S3 Ep.19 Sangeet Choudary – Composability beyond software: building ecosystemic portfolios Sangeet Choudary is a returning guest to the show, and in this episode we unpack some key insights from his latest work – ‘The Building Blocks Thesis’. Sangeet Paul Choudary is the founder of Platformation Labs and the best-selling author ...
07.08.2022 S3 Ep. 18 Lisa Gill – Looking Beyond Teal Lisa Gill is an organisational self-management coach and trainer with Tuff Leadership Training. She was included in the Thinkers50 Radar 2020 for her work with self-managing teams. Lisa is also the host of the Leadermorphosis podcast, for which she has ...
07.04.2022 S3 Ep. 18 Lisa Gill – Looking Beyond Teal Lisa Gill is an organisational self-management coach and trainer with Tuff Leadership Training. She was included in the Thinkers50 Radar 2020 for her work with self-managing teams. Lisa is also the host of the Leadermorphosis podcast, for which she has ...
06.20.2022 S3 Ep. 17 Trach – DAOs are Orgs: Moving at the speed of trust (in a trustless environment) Today we're joined by Tracheopteryx - or Trach - Pioneer of decentralized governance, operations, and compensation systems. Trach is co-founder of Coordinape and previous contributor to yearn finance. In this conversation, we delve into what DAOs are and why the ...
06.06.2022 S3 Ep. 16 Rob Solomon – Building permissionless Ecosystems: Data and infrastructure at DIMO Today we’re joined by former guest to the show, Rob Solomon, a cofounder at DIMO, a blockchain enabled IoT protocol for mobility. His background is in finance, investing, and organizational design. Most recently, he worked at Consensys, the largest Ethereum ...
05.23.2022 S3 Ep. 15 Phoebe Tickell – Growing Institutional Imagination Capacity and Collective Intelligence in a Complex World Phoebe Tickell is a biologist and systems thinker developing methodologies and approaches suited for a better world. She is an innovator with a background in the biological sciences, technology, social entrepreneurship and systems design. She left the scientific academy with ...
05.09.2022 S3 Ep. 14 Adam Jackson – Developing and Investing in Web3 Networks: Double Clicking on Braintrust Podcast notes Adam Jackson founded Braintrust — the world’s first user-controlled talent platform — which aligns incentives, removes expensive middlemen and gives value and control back to talent and organizations. Prior to founding Braintrust, Adam co-founded Doctor on Demand, the ...
04.25.2022 S3 Ep. 13 Antoinette Weibel and Otti Vogt – The ‘Good’ and the ‘Bad’ organization: an ethics perspective Today we find out how to bridge philosophy, psychology and management science to understand how businesses can enable a "good society". We are joined by two experts in this field, Antoinette Weibel and Otti Vogt to find out what questions ...
04.11.2022 S3 Ep. 12 Jon Alexander – The citizen story: stepping into a many-to-many society Jon Alexander began his career in advertising, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year, before making a dramatic change. Driven by a deep need to understand the impact on society of 3,000 commercial messages a day, he gathered ...
03.28.2022 S3 Ep. 11 Michele Zanini – Firms as socially dense markets Michele Zanini is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Humanocracy. He is the co-founder of the Management Lab, where together with Gary Hamel, he helps forward-thinking organizations become more resilient, innovative and engaging places to work. Michele was ...
03.14.2022 S3 Ep. 10 Ethan Buchman – Why Blockchain should be plural: Cosmos and Inter-Blockchain Communication Ethan Buchman is the co-founder of the Cosmos network and serves as the CEO of Informal Systems. Informal Systems is a member-driven worker’s cooperative building software that enables trustworthy relationships between protocols and people to flourish. Ethan also serves as ...
03.01.2022 S3 Ep. 9 Lucía Hernandez – Regenerative Platform Models: What do we mean? Lucía is an expert in Platform Economy and New Emerging Trends. She has been working with organizations of all types in applying platform-ecosystems strategies. She has participated in research with global organizations and helped to design public policies related to ...
02.15.2022 S3 Ep. 8 L. M. Sacasas – Building a convivial society: autonomy, tools, scale and capabilities What does it mean to create convivial organisations and platforms? Today we explore the relationship between technology and society with L. M. Sacasas – and what we can learn from the philosopher Ivan Illich (1926-2002). L. M. Sacasas is the ...
02.01.2022 S3 Ep. 7 Mara Zepeda – Ownership, Governance and Culture: Building Zebras, not Unicorns In this episode, systempreneur Mara Zepeda joins us to talk about how Zebras Unite is creating the capital, culture, and community for the next economy. Mara Zepeda is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Zebras Unite. Being an international and intersectional ...
01.18.2022 S3 Ep. 6 - Framing the Platform-Ecosystem Space at the dawn of 2022 In this special “Boundaryless update” episode, we explore some of the patterns witnessed consolidating over the past ten years with regards to marketplaces, embracing shared infrastructures, the dynamic new role of connecting with customers, building extension platforms, Amazon’s open marketplace ...
01.04.2022 S3 Ep. 5 Jason Crawford – Narrative decentralization and the future of progress Jason Crawford is the founder of The Roots of Progress, where he writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. He is also the creator of Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online learning program ...
12.21.2021 S3 Ep. 4 Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski – Showing the way with Web 3 Marketplaces: Braintrust Today we are joined by Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, the Co-Founder of Braintrust — the first user-controlled talent network that provides enterprises with the highly skilled technical and design talent they need. In this conversation we explore how Braintrust operates, the providers ...
12.07.2021 S3 Ep. 3 Ivan Draganov – What‘s next for marketplaces: Fintech, B2B and more Today we are joined by Ivan Draganov, Lead Online Marketplaces Analyst at Dealroom.co, to share his latest insights on how fintech-enabled marketplaces are creating more value than either marketplaces and financial services alone. Ivan is leading Dealroom.co's intelligence efforts on ...
11.23.2021 S3 Ep. 2 Annette Dhami and Indy Johar – Dark Matter Labs: rethinking organizing #BeyondTheRules Dark Matter Labs is a multidisciplinary design team developing new working methods for system change. Today we’re joined by Indy Johar and Annette Dhami to discuss their mission of discovering, designing and developing the institutional ‘dark matter’ that supports a ...
11.09.2021 S3 Ep. 1 Aron Fischer and Jack du Rose – Colony: distributed organizations that actually work In this first episode of Season 3, we talk to Jack du Rose and Aron Fischer from Colony.io — an infrastructure for internet native companies and a key player in the evolution of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs). Jack du Rose ...
07.12.2021 S2 Ep. 21 Tim O’Reilly – How Software is Infusing the World and What it Means If you’ve heard any of the terms “open source software”, “web 2.0”, or “government as a platform”, you’ll be familiar with today’s guest – Tim O’Reilly – who has helped popularise these big ideas. Tim is the founder, CEO, and ...
06.28.2021 S2 Ep. 20 Matthew Skelton – On the Convergence between Software and Organizations It’s undeniable that the role of software in any modern organisation is essential – untangling software from the organization is almost impossible today. With new solutions emerging as part of the low-code or no-code movement, what’s the best way to ...
06.14.2021 S2 Ep. 19 Nathan Schneider – From Platform Coops to Exit to Community We explore how entrepreneurship within cooperative movements help to drive community ownership in the online economy. We’re excited to be joined by Nathan Schneider, a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, who we know from the ...
05.31.2021 S2 Ep.18 B. Peters, R. Solomon, S. Kellert: Software and Protocols for a new way of Organizing In our research at Boundaryless on the concept of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organisation, aka EEEO or 3EO, we’ve been wondering if a common approach to organizational development is emerging from the success stories of several pioneers, such as Haier ...
05.17.2021 S2 Ep. 17 Gregory Landua – Platform for Ecological Regeneration Today we’re joined by co-founder and co-Chief Regeneration Officer of Regen Network, Gregory Landua. Regen Network is a land ecological commons management platform and the backbone for a new approach to ecosystem service markets based on verified ecological state. Their ...
05.03.2021 S2 Ep.16 Jabe Bloom – Platforming inside and between organizations: differentiation, scale, and scope Today’s guest is Jabe Bloom, in conversation with Simone and Emanuele Quintarelli, Boundaryless’ EEEO Micro Enterprise Lead. With Jabe, we look into how, increasingly in an age of technologically powered organizations, thriving means the ability to enable “the three economies” ...
04.19.2021 S2 Ep. 15 Archna Haylock and Steve Helvie – Open Ecosystem Strategies: Catalyzing Change in Industries Creating Ecosystems around open source standards and the Commons is a challenging task that has been taken strategically by many of the dominating brands of our times - such as Google with Android. For this reason, we wanted to feature ...
04.05.2021 S2 Ep. 14 Bill Baue and Ralph Thurm – Bottom-Up and Top-Down Transformation Today we explore an initiative that looks into transformation and the micro-macro dynamics of organizing from a thresholds and allocations perspective. We’re joined by Bill Baue, Senior Director at r3.0, and Ralph Thurm, Co-Founder & Managing Director at r3.0 – ...
03.22.2021 S2 Ep. 13 Nora Bateson – Trans-contextual Organizing: Shifting Perceptions Today’s guest, Nora Bateson, is a unique thinker that as a company we’ve been following for a while now. From invisible assumptions, to entanglement and trans-contextual organising, this conversation explores what organizing in complexity truly means for organisations and the ...
03.09.2021 S2 Ep. 12 Aaron Dignan – Leadership and Legitimacy through Consent and Coherence We often view leadership as such an individual role, but does it have to be? Today’s guest, Aaron Dignan, shares a radically different approach to leadership as something that needs to be more coherent and inclusive with everyone involved. Through ...
02.23.2021 S2 Ep. 11 Simon Wardley – Mapping, Doctrine, and Culture in the Future of Organizing Wardley maps are a key feature of platform strategy design - and the person who invented these maps is joining us on the podcast today: Simon Wardley.
02.09.2021 S2 Ep. 10 Rita McGrath – Control and Coherence in the New Strategy Playbook Today we’re joined by a true legend in the space of strategy, innovation and management: Rita Gunther McGrath. Rita is widely recognized as a premier expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. She is a best-selling author, ...
01.26.2021 S2 Ep. 9 Laëtitia Vitaud and Albert Cañigueral – The Present (Future) of Work: Beyond Platforms Today we have a fabulous duo of Future of Work experts with us, Albert Canigueral and Laetitia Vitaud. We chat about some of the key evolutions in this space, and how platforms contribute to crystalize trends in the continued unbundling ...
01.12.2021 S2 Ep. 8 Adrien Nussenbaum – Becoming Anything you want in the Platform Value Chain In this episode we are speaking Adrien Nussenbaum, co-founder and U.S. CEO of Mirakl, a global leader in online marketplace solutions. Since graduating from HEC in Paris in 2001, Adrien's career has been focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and disruption. His ...
12.29.2020 S2 Ep. 7 Robyn Scott – Enabling an Ecosystem of Civil Servants in the Age of Platforms Today we’re talking to Robyn Scott, co-founder and CEO of Apolitical, a global learning network for public servants. The Apolitical Academy, Apolitical’s non-profit arm, helps young and traditionally excluded people run for political office. Previously, Robyn co-founded OneLeap, an executive ...
12.15.2020 S2 Ep. 6 Juho Makkonen – Democratizing the Platform Economy through Marketplace as a Service Today we have the great pleasure of speaking to Juho Makkonen, CEO and co-founder of Sharetribe – and a common friend from the heydays of the onset of the sharing economy.
12.01.2020 S2 Ep. 5 Dave Snowden – Building Scalable Organizations that can Deal with Uncertainty Today we’re talking to Professor Dave Snowden, the founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Cognitive Edge and Director of the Cynefin Centre Wales.
11.17.2020 S2 Ep. 4 B. Joseph Pine II – Experience Platforms: Staging Experiences through an Ecosystem Once businesses recognize that they are staging experiences, not delivering services, they can gain much more economic value by leveraging on the time and attention of their guests.
11.03.2020 S2 Ep. 3 Peter C. Evans – Platform Talent: Jobs & Skills for the Age of Networks What we were curious to talk to Peter about was the concept of “platform talent” and what companies are looking for when it comes to recruiting leaders in platform strategy and development.

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