Boundaryless Conversations Podcast

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. From Boundaryless SRL Hosted by Simone Cicero and Shruthi Prakash

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Episodes

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 and also authors a regular column for Forbes.com entitled “The Ideas Business”. Together with Bill, we’re exploring how incumbent organizations are likely to respond to pressures like plummeting transaction costs and the need to ...

Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 7

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 in both regional and international governance of the economy and society. Michel Bauwens is founder and director of the P2P Foundation, research director of CommonsTransition.org (a platform for policy development aimed toward a soci...

Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 7

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 chief marketing executive. In the context of the collaborative economy boom of early 2010, Ana wrote thoughtful reflections on the Guardian and other news outlets. She recently came back to our attention for her brand new newsletter “The Soci...

Apr 13, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 5

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 needed to make sense of our relentlessly chaotic world. In other words, John helps people think clearly at a time when that kind of help is in short supply. In our conversation with John, we explore how the rapid power shifts we're witnessing t...

Apr 05, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 4

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 Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and is a founding partner of the Fab City Global Initiative. In our conversation with Tomas, we explore the democratization of the production of goods, mainly through technological progress and ope...

Apr 05, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 3

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 testing, crowdsourcing, and myriad of other growth techniques that have since been adopted by nearly all technology companies. In 2015, James co-founded NFX, a $150M early-stage venture capital firm focused on network effect businesses along with ...

Mar 30, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 2

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 show we widely cover the concept of Unenclosable carriers and how new technologies that are more inherently contextual and agent centred - instead of universal and global consensus-based - may open up new possibilitie...

Mar 30, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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 of large scale organising by leveraging on technology, network effects and shaping narratives. We explore how platforms can help us play with a world in turmoil, change, and transformation: a world that...

Mar 30, 2020•31 min

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