Mapping the road ahead for distributed business

January 9, 2008 at 2:19 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Network enterprise. Peer production. Crowd sourcing. Any of these concepts sound familiar? If not they will, and in a shorter time frame than you should think. As men, women, children and even pets move online, so do businesses of all shapes and colours. Distributed business models are still young but they are gaining more and more inflence. First the music business suffered severe punishment for not converting their business model to a distrubuted marketplace, and now software, t-shirts, and even cars are developed through different degrees of distributed production.

But so far the jungle of distributed business has been uncharted territory. But theenthusiastic people of the P2P Foundation have started an exciting new meme mapping project for P2P Business. Plaese go there and help out if you can. The outset for the project is this still rough but informative outline of a P2P business meme map:

Because many people doing each a little bit of the work are more efficient and flexible than few people doing all the work.

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2752 nodes of complexity in the K-profil network

November 15, 2007 at 8:53 am · Filed under Complexity theory, Network analysis

When browsing the litterature on Social Network Analysis (SNA) most actual analyses contain only very few nodes, like 20-100 at most. While these analyses inform the methodology of SNA they do not tell us much about complex networks. 100 nodes can only reproduce so much complexity, so my friend and colleague Timme and I want to do better. We want to do a SNA of a network of 2752 nodes in the K-profil network. Now that’s complexity. But also it proves a huge challenge.

Lesson #1: Complexity is really complex

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