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Boundaryless Conversations Podcast is an ongoing exploration of the future of Platforms & Ecosystems. Here we explore new perspectives about how we organise at scale in a rapidly changing world.

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S2 Ep. 21 Tim O’Reilly – Ho...

07.12.2021

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 ...

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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.
10.19.2020 S2 Ep. 2 Alicia Hennig - Embeddedness: Exploring the Roots of the Eastern idea of Organizing In this episode we have the pleasure of introducing a very interesting academic voice, Alicia Hennig, Associate Professor of Business Ethics. Her research focuses on Chinese philosophy and its application in organisations in the context of values, ethics and innovation. ...
10.05.2020 S2 Ep. 1 Sangeet Paul Choudary - Re-bundling the Firm around Problems to Be Solved We’re excited to have a legend from the platform thinking space Sangeet Paul Choudary, where we explore his fascinating journey from the micro level to macro when analysing the platform economy.
07.20.2020 A Beacon for Future Explorations - Wrapping up Season 1 with Bill Fischer and Lisa Gansky In this episode, we have our two dear guests Lisa Gansky — the eternal entrepreneur, great thinker and our long term advisor — and Bill Fischer, professor at IMD in Lausanne with whom we’ve developed the very first Rendanheyi Masterclass ...
07.13.2020 Ep. 18 John Bunch - Building Complex Organizations through simple constraints: Zappos In this episode, we have a conversation with John Bunch, Lead Organizational Designer and Adviser to the CEO Tony Hsieh at Zappos. John joined Zappos.com in 2009 as a Software Developer and moved on to lead the Public API team. ...
07.06.2020 Ep. 17 Jeremiah Owyang - The Future of Platforms in the midst of Silicon Valley's moral reckoning Today we’re speaking to Jeremiah Owyang, founding partner of the San Francisco based research firm Kaleido Insights, where he focuses on how disruptive technologies—such as social media, collaborative economy, autonomous world, blockchain and more— impact the relevance of corporations. Jeremiah ...
06.29.2020 Ep.16 Marshall Van Alstyne and Geoffrey Parker - Human Value as the North Star: Regulating pervasive platforms In this episode we have two leading platform thinkers on the show: Marshall Van Alstyne, Questrom Chair Professor at Boston University and Geoffrey Parker, professor of engineering at the Thayer School of Dartmouth College. They are both visiting scholars at ...
06.22.2020 Ep.15 Nicolas Colin - The Entrepreneurial Age: Networks and a fragmenting world In this episode, we’re speaking to Nicolas Colin, co-founder & director of The Family, a pan-European investment firm founded in 2013 and headquartered in London. Nicolas publishes an extremely valuable newsletter European Straits about entrepreneurship, finance, strategy and policy, with ...
06.15.2020 Ep. 14 Joe Norman - Organizations as Architectures for Complexity In this episode, we’re having a boundaryless conversation with Joe Norman, a complex systems scientist researching systemic risk and precaution in large-scale systems. Joe explores strategies for uncertainty, complex systems engineering, pattern formation in biological and social systems. Joe’s work ...
06.08.2020 Ep.13 Martin Revees - Remaking the Case for Strategy in an Interdependent World In this episode, Simone Cicero is again joined by a special co-host and former guest on the podcast — Bill Fischer — Professor of Innovation Management at IMD Business School in Lausanne. They talk to Martin Reeves, Managing Director in ...
06.01.2020 Ep 12. Alex Osterwalder - Unleashing thoughtful Innovation at Scale In this episode, Simone Cicero is joined by a special co-host and former guest on the podcast - Bill Fischer - Professor of Innovation Management at IMD Business School in Lausanne. Together they pick the brain of nobody less than ...
05.25.2020 Ep. 11 Joost Minnar - Tackling the Fundamental Problems of Organising at Scale In this episode, we talk to Joost Minnaar, co-founder of the blog Corporate-Rebels.com in 2015. Joost travels the world researching progressive organisations, blogs about the discoveries he makes and advises on workplace issues. Joost is the co-author of the book ...
05.18.2020 Ep. 10 Indy Johar - Redrawing the Human Development thesis for the 21st Century In this boundaryless conversation we speak with Indy Johar, architect and co-founder of Project 00 and most recently Dark Matter Labs (see his full bio here: https://about.me/indy.johar). Indy is really a great thinker when it comes to going beyond “corner ...
05.11.2020 Ep. 09 Daniel Wahl - Organizing in Nested Systems: Re-regionalisation, Landscape and Global Solidarity In our conversation with Daniel, we talk about the interplays between technology and landscape, between the virtual and the analogue world, and we explore what kind of new experiments and institutions that may emerge — and what new constituencies will ...
05.07.2020 Checkpoint episode with Lisa Gansky - Ecosystems: between the "no more" and the "not yet" This is a “checkpoint” episode where we talk to Lisa about what we’ve been discovering so far in the research for the Whitepaper and get her valuable take focusing on the role of incumbents in adapting to a fast-changing world. ...
05.04.2020 Ep. 08 Stowe Boyd - Ecosystemic Organizations and the Future of Work Stowe describes his calling as “the ecology of work and the anthropology of the future”. He’s founder of Work Futures, where he explores critical themes of the future of work, and top writer in Economics, Leadership and Futures on Medium. ...
04.27.2020 Ep. 07 Bill Fischer - Leadership as Architecting: Transforming Organisations into Thriving Ecosystems In this Boundaryless Conversation, we talk with Bill Fischer, Professor of Innovation Management at IMD Business School in Lausanne. Bill co-founded and co-directs the IMD program on Driving Strategic Innovation, in cooperation with the Sloan School of Management at MIT ...
04.20.2020 Ep. 06 Michel Bauwens - Commons-based peer production at the edge of a chaotic transition In this with Michel Bauwens, we explore both the Epistemological and Political/Regulatory layers of the transition from the “old” to the “new” ways of organising society. We dig into concepts like “trans-national institutions” and explore the changes we could expect ...
04.13.2020 Ep. 05 Ana Andjelic - Brands in transition: the sociology of ecosystems In this episode, we talk to Ana Andjelic, a Strategy Executive and Doctor of Sociology working on business strategy, marketing, and organizational transformation. Ana has worked with top global advertising agencies and has also worked on the brand-side as a ...
04.05.2020 Ep. 04 John Robb - Beyond markets: sense-making and organising, in a world of open networks In this episode, we have a Boundaryless Conversation with John Robb, the owner and principal analyst for the monthly Global Guerrillas Report, that covers the intersection of War, Politics, and Technology. Its goal is to provide people with the frameworks ...
04.05.2020 Ep. 03 Tomas Diez - From Fab Cities to Fab Citizens: remaking organising In this episode, we have a boundaryless conversation with Tomas Diez, a Venezuelan Urbanist specialized in digital fabrication and its implications on the future of cities and society. He is the co-founder and director of Fab Lab Barcelona at the ...
03.30.2020 Ep. 02 James Currier - Unveiling the math behind society and what to do about it In this episode, we have a boundaryless conversation with James Currier one of Silicon Valley’s foremost experts in growth and network effects. James is a four-time CEO of VC backed companies and a pioneer of user-generated models, viral marketing, A/B ...
03.30.2020 Ep. 01 Arthur Brock - Rewiring the technology to rewire the way we organise In this episode, we have a boundaryless conversation with Arthur Brock, chief architect of Holochain. Holochain is an alternative to blockchain for running fully Peer-to-Peer distributed applications and is shaping the social dynamics of our emerging post-industrial economy. In the ...
03.30.2020 Opening episode: Exploring the future of organising at scale with Boundaryless conversations This episode frames the Boundaryless Conversation podcast: Simone Cicero, the original creator of the Platform Design Toolkit, and co-host and team-mate Stina Heikkilä present the main research questions that guide this exploration. Boundaryless Conversations podcast is about exploring the future ...