Mapping the road ahead for distributed business
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.