August 25, 2005

buckets

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Sig’s tal­king about “Flow” again:

If nature was desig­ned like today’s busi­ness and soft­ware, water would tric­kle down the valley in buc­kets, from buc­ket to bucket.

More spe­ci­fi­cally:

We have wire­less in cof­fee shops, Sky­ping on tran­sat­lan­tic flights, Black­be­rries, smartpho­nes and lap­tops whe­re­ver we go — why not let (ser­ver based) sys­tems do the deli­very of work-orders, run the events, do the tran­sac­tions and cap­ture the data? Why not have the flows defi­ned with loops and warts and all ready to be refi­ned daily as the orga­ni­sa­tions learns and grows?
“Ana­ta­xo­nomy” and “Flow”, com­bine those two prin­ci­ples and use the won­ders of tech­no­logy accordingly.

So what does this mean? Sure, we’re already get­ting used to the idea of big com­mer­cial Open-Source soft­ware com­pa­nies like Spi­ke­source. But what about non-software? Open-Source Exxon’s? Open-Source Gene­ral Motors’s?
This is when “Flow” starts get­ting REALLY impor­tant.
[Disc­lo­sure: Sig and I work together. Thin­gamy soft­ware etc.]

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4 Responses to “buckets”

  1. goodgord says:
    August 25, 2005 at 2:35 AM

    I think that open source soft­ware really only exists becuase of the low cost of entry… Basi­cally I can turn my brain­wa­ves into soft­ware by wig­gling my fin­gers. Collec­ti­vely, a bunch of us can build a com­mu­nity of finger-wigglers, and we can make something ama­zing and use­ful.
    Right now, doesn’t the huge up-front invest­ment requi­red in an open source Exxon (ships, rigs, etc) totally prec­lude such a thing from even coming close to existing?

  2. Bazaarz says:
    August 25, 2005 at 1:42 PM

    Pro­cess flow, spaghetti soup

    Blog pimp Hugh McLeod is pun­ting Sig’s non-conventional approach to soft­ware deve­lop­ment. I have no pro­blem with that. Sig’s ideas around tag­ging as com­pa­red with tree hie­rarchies are fas­ci­na­ting. I’m not so sure about his ideas around ‘flow’ as it…

  3. simon tzu says:
    August 25, 2005 at 4:28 PM

    Dear Hugh,
    Exci­ting times indeed. Basi­cally its those of us who are happy making a rea­so­na­ble living from our own work VS those who want to carry on living off the work of others.
    Open Source Exxons and Gene­ral motors will be cool. Open source money will be even coo­ler. The fina­cial sys­tem is pretty much stac­ked in favour of those who already have a lot and empha­si­ses com­pe­ti­tive beha­viour. Alter­na­tive currency sys­tems are great and are making stady pro­gress worldwide.

  4. Passages : L’organigramme de l’entreprise 2.0 at SÉRENDIPITÉ says:
    February 23, 2010 at 11:45 AM

    […] Pour­quoi ne pas exploi­ter ces nou­ve­lles tech­no­lo­gies qui per­met­tent de car­to­graphier le capi­tal inte­llec­tuel de l’entreprise ? /…/ why not let (ser­ver based) sys­tems do the deli­very of work-orders, run the events, do the tran­sac­tions and cap­ture the data? Why not have the flows defi­ned with loops and warts and all ready to be refi­ned daily as the orga­ni­sa­tions learns and grows? Hugh McLeod, Buckets […]