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Global Wisdom lifts human potential from 2.5% (Industrial economy) to 23.5% (Network Society)

By Marcus Cake - Builds Wisdom Networks to crowd create Network Society, patient centric healthcare, equity market evolution .... at WisdomNetworks.im

Co-Authored By Angela Sedran, Matt Taylor

November 7, 2013 at 7:39pm

Economic Development

economic enablers

evolution

distributed leadership

empowerment

Empower people

Moonshots

Build "natural", flexible hierarchies

Enable communities of passion

Disaggregate the organization

Summary

Global Wisdom puts every “thing” in the cloud. Anyone in the organisation, industry, society or around the world can participate, contribute, “manage”, lead or govern any “thing”, anywhere, anytime involving anyone.

It is often asserted that humans use 1% of their brains and don’t reach their potential. Sergey Brin believes that we are only using 1% of the potential of the internet. Similarly, our “Industrial economy” society structure yields only 2.5% of human potential which is a fraction of human potential. A Network Society structure lifts human potential to 23.5% (with the current 3bn people connected) or 57.5% of human potential (if all 7.1bn people were connected to the internet). A ‘Network Society’ structure can yield 9-21 times more human potential than an ‘Industrial Economy’ structure.

The Millenium Project ranks 'Collective Intelligence - Global commons for the knowledge economy' as #4 in the elements required in the next economic system. Global Wisdom is the platform that delivers a global Network Society and collective intelligence. Global Wisdom consists of as few as 30 networks that can be achieve a Network Society in 2-5 years and also provide the collective governance, wisdom and effort to solve some of the worlds greatest challenges.

In the Agricultural Age, the combine harvester represents an evolution of innovation that increases productivity 600 fold. In the Industrial Age, containerisation and standardisation of rail gauges represent cascading innovation that dramatically increased productivity. In a Network Society, Wisdom Books also represent a common method (or standard) for person to person organisation that has a dramatic effect on personal, organisational, community, sector and national productivity. More is achieved with less if we all work from the same book.

Cloud-based Wisdom Networks enable everyone to see, participate and contribute to everything, everywhere (in every community) in real-time and focus wisdom and effort on outcomes via their mobile device. Human capacity is unleashed by distributed, transparent structures that empowers the individual with knowledge and the ability to organise their community to pursue and achieve individual or collective outcomes. Human capability is maximised by making siloed information in opaque hierarchies transparent and putting all 6 elements of wisdom in the cloud to which enables community wisdom (community knowledge and community pursuit of community outcomes). Wisdom Networks transcend every boundary and facilitate seamless collaboration across organisation, industry, country regional and globally. Wisdom Networks crowd create Network Society, productivity and prosperity and could increase productivity 50%+ and accelerate the Wisdom of Crowds (r)evolution to the next stage of economic development.

Video: Wisdom in 3 video introduction (3:01 video) - click to play

Global Wisdom puts all interaction in every community in the cloud and is the next stage of economic development. Wisdom Networks crowd create Network Society, productivity, growth, prosperity and the next stage of economic development. Global Wisdom is summarised in a flipboard at http://www.wisdomnetworks.im/magazines.

Global Wisdom is an elective singularity. People move from telecommunications to telewisdom (just like they did with Facebook for their social communities). This has a singularity effect on individuals, organisation, industry, government and society. Global Wisdom is achieved by linking individual wisdom communities (including the organisation) within the Internet of Everything (IoE).

Wisdom Networks crowd create productivity, prosperity, distributed leadership and accelerate the wisdom of crowds (r)evolution to the next stage of economic development

Problem

Subsistence (information) farming

In the Information Age, we are all subsistence (information) farmers. We have a small plot in the information landscape and we laboriously push and pull information things and create a small personal amount of knowledge. We sell this knowledge to the farmer next door or go to the village and sell in the local market. These sales of information provide an income, but there is no surplus to contribute to the community or trade with others. Profit and influence is derived from our small plot of land and each seeks to protect their territory. The community does not achieve economies of scale and there is no surplus that contributes to the prosperity of the community. Surpluses may be derived by aggregating plots together, but the basic structure is that each individual own and protects their own plot. Larger communities derive some benefit from economies of scale, but each person still has their own information which they farm. Subsistence (information) farming does not achieve economies of scale and we never achieve knowledge or wisdom. Everybody protects their plot in the Information landscape. Every plot uses different technologies to produce output.

Hardware defined communities mean complexity and chaos

Our basic method for organisation relies on the physical. This includes buildings, roads, hierarchies, information technology, proprietary networks, cities etc. Each organisation mixes these physical items into an organisation structure to maximise productivity, profitability and achieve their own objectives. There are hundreds or thousands of combinations and each organisation comes up with their own solution. Each piece of the physical puzzle that becomes an organisation is non-standard, expensive, and takes time to put in place. Complexity upon complexity leads to failure in efficiency, effectiveness and the organisation itself.

Chaotic interaction

There is no standard interaction between people and no standard hierarchy. The lack of standard interoperable structures, common technology, or standard forms of interaction means that the organisation is isolated and can not integrate with others beyond the organisation's boundary. People work to understand and drive processes within these structures. People spend months pushing and pulling information things to develop a small piece of knowledge regarding some thing. Arguably, there is no action (other than within the organisation boundary) which results from the knowledge developed. By the time an individual develops the knowledge, the required action may have changed. There is no comprehensive transfer of knowledge in person to person interaction. Person to person interaction is limited to pushing and pulling information things. Comprehensive transfer of knowledge or immediate (beyond organisation boundary) action does not occur. This is no wisdom. Our physical model of organisation is inefficient.

Individual work productivity

An Ernst and Young study revealed that 28% of a worker's time is productive. Most time is lost to unproductive “Information Age” processes. Additional information is available from http://www.wisdomnetworks.im/au-employee-time.html .

Every organisation does it differently

There are millions of structures across the globe. Each is unique (although follows some basic principles). Each can not inter operate with others, and for each their particular hardware defined community is unique. Each is carefully crafted and customised. The organisational cost of this uniqueness, and its inherent isolation, is huge. The global cost is staggering. This outcome could be attributed to both structure and the individual may not be motivated within the structure.

Exhaustion means innovation (not improvement) is required

At the end of the Information Age, the world is suffering from centralised stagnation. There is declining or negative productivity at the individual, organisation, country, regional and global level. Society has been reduced to wealth transfers. Private and public debt have maintained standards of living. Organisations also suffer from low productivity and exhaustion. Further investment (or improvement) in the status quo will not yield positive returns. Innovation which replaces the status quo is required.

Technology moves faster than people (with influence) can adapt

History shows us two things. Firstly, a new innovation is usually added to existing structures within the status quo (without restructure). For example, the internet has been used to speed up the status quo and exacerbate the problems of the status quo. It is the second generation, that uses the new innovation to restructure the status quo to new structures with a rapid (one off) jump in productivity. The previous generation literally has to die before restructure occurs. There is a 30 year gap between innovation and it being used to its full potential. The internet was "invented" 15 years ago. We have another 15 years before we use it to its full potential by restructuring the status quo to distributed person to person structures.

Centralised decision-making reduces agility and decision quality

Decision making has been less than optimal. Individuals with power and influence in hierarchies have made decision which were not in the community interest, or against community sentiment, with significant global consequences. Symptoms include war, financial collapse, insolvency and a lack of accountability. Within the organisation, the result is less agility, less responsiveness to changing market conditions, disempowering individuals within the hierarchy and less innovation.

Poor decisions by a few, global consequences for many
Decision making has been less than optimal. Individuals with power and influence in hierarchies have made decision which were not in the community interest, or against community sentiment, with significant global consequences. Symptoms include war, financial collapse, insolvency and a lack of accountability

Centralised stagnation

Unfortunately, at the end of the Information Age the society is suffering from centralised stagnation. We need the benefit of the internet today (probably 15 years before it would "naturally" arrive). Every community system is in crisis. Every community system needs to become distributed and every person empowered with telewisdom.

People rendered rendundant by technology, need to empowered and utilised in the next stage
Technology is displacing labour and unemployment is rising. We are not redeploying these unemployed for employment in the next stage of economic development. Society and the unemployed are stagnating. Without proactive change, a generation will not make a contribution to the economy (ie output) or society (ie; prosperity).

Solution

The choice to organise Productive Knowledge ... virtually or physically

The “Productive Knowledge” of society creates prosperity. Organising it physically costs trillions, takes decades and now suffers diminishing returns. Organising it virtually costs millions, takes months and provides a jump in productivity and the opportunity to achieve outcomes not previously considered possible.

The next stage involves people exchanging and transacting person to person rather than mediated through institutions. It has happened to retail and social networks. It will happen to financial markets, health, education and other aspects of society.

100 times more addressable data means 10,000 times more patterns (or knowledge) and “a profound change in the economics of the world we live in“. A Network Society in which Wisdom Networks empower everyone by connecting them, their devices and “Internet of Everything” (IoE) things to reveal knowledge and focus the inherent wisdom in the community on outcomes in commerce, health, and economic development. Only crowds can turn (open) data into (collective) wisdom, delivering (community, country, regional or global) prosperity.

It's not revolution, it's evolution ... a (r)evolution of crowds

The community has been crowd creating wisdom for decades. The community crowd created data (ie internet). The community crowd created information (ie world wide web). The community crowd created community (ie social networks). The community crowd created open source software from which wisdom networks are assembled. Wisdom Networks simply add to this foundation and put the remaining elements of wisdom in the cloud. Everything, everyone, everywhere evolves to the simplicity of a wisdom network which relies on people, their mobile devices and cloud app to bring wisdom to everything with one network (rather than the traditional approach of moving information things to hierarchies).

Let's shift to the next stage of development … put intelligence in the network

Global Wisdom accelerates the “Shift” or (r)evolution from Information Age (hardware defined communities) to Network Society (software defined communities). The hierarchy brings physical things and people into the organisation and implements systems to organise them. Society and urban landscapes are structured around this core physical way of organising. The Wisdom Network provides a virtual wisdom book for every physical thing. Every physical thing has a digital counterpart in the Internet of Everything. This means within the Wisdom Network anyone can participate and contribute to anything anywhere in real-time. Intelligence and knowledge move from isolated people, organisations and IT systems to collective wisdom networks accessible by all.

The Shift from Information Age to Wisdom Networks (4:26 video) - click to play

Wisdom in theory. What is Wisdom?

Wikipedia defines Wisdom as:

“Wisdom has, in the Western tradition, been listed as one of four cardinal virtues. As a virtue it is a habit or disposition to perform the action with the highest degree of adequacy under any given circumstance. This implies a possession or seeking of knowledge of the given circumstances. This involves an understanding of people, things, events and situations, and the willingness and the ability to apply perceptions, judgments and actions in keeping with an understanding of what is the right course of actions. It often requires control of one’s emotional reactions (the “passions”) so that universal principles, values, reason and knowledge prevail to determine one’s actions. In short, wisdom is a disposition to find the truth coupled with an optimum judgement as to right actions. Synonyms include: prudence, sagacity, discernment, or insight.“

The key elements we have extracted from this are (1) understanding/knowledge/”what is true”, and (2) optimum judgement as to action. The important distinction is that our definition of wisdom requires knowledge and action.

Wisdom in practice

Information is everywhere, but we have no means to act upon it. Wisdom Networks combine six types of "things" (data, information, community, collaboration, knowledge, wisdom) to reveal knowledge and organise action across organisation, industry, society and the world in real-time at the point of human interaction.

Combine (wisdom) harvesters

The Wisdom Network is simply a combine (wisdom) harvester and offers a new method of organisation. It covers greater tracts of the information landscape, encompasses the different varieties of information, achieves greater scale and is so efficient that it has the energy to provide a large surplus of collective knowledge and collective wisdom to contribute to community prosperity. It provides the means to look beyond the subsistence farming and small plots of the Information Age to collective knowledge and collective wisdom in the Network Society (instead of a large deficit in the “Information Age”).

Combine Harvesters are the 7th greatest achievement of the 20th Century. They led a successive increases in labour productivity (50%, 315% to 600 times) in the Agricultural Revolution and shifted the base unit in agriculture from individual farming lots to large tracts of land in the landscape. There are a number of causes of increasing productivity in the agricultural revolution that can be applied to drive the (r)evolution within the organisation (see http://www.wisdomnetworks.im/combine-wisdom-harvesters.html ). In essence, a single global method covering more area, more efficiently with a minimum of technologies. Organisation Wisdom cloud application delivers a similar increase in productivity by using a single method of human interaction across all communities using the internet, people and their mobiles.

Productive knowledge drive prosperity

Productivity is important, but productive knowledge is more important. Productive knowledge across countries can be measured and we know that the Productive Knowledge Index has a high correlation with incomes and prosperity across countries. The original report makes the following comment: "Our measure of productive knowledge can account for the enormous income differences between the nations of the world and has the capacity to predict the rate at which countries will grow. In fact, it is much more predictive than other well-known development indicators, such as those that attempt to measure competitiveness, governance and education." Productive Knowledge refers to the social accumulation society of things and their redistribution into productive uses through teams, organisations and markets.

Wisdom Networks create productive knowledge in years (not decades) by linking “things” in the “Internet of Everything” to reveal knowledge and focusing the “Wisdom of Crowds” through meta processes on outcomes. The only opportunity for future prosperity is to simplify human interaction across communities using just cloud networks, people and their mobiles to organise “productive knowledge” virtually. Wisdom Networks create productive knowledge across virtual communities of people wherever they reside which means that population, physical infrastructure or decades of economic development are signifcantly less relevant to the creation of Productive Knowledge when using a virtual structure.

Seamless single standard for human interaction

Standards have focused on process. Each technology underlying the hardware defined community version of management has been subject to standards. We combine these technologies in exponentially varietal combinations which mean the interactions between people and organisations are chaotic and unique to each interaction. We need to standardise human interaction across organisation, industry and society. The standard interaction is to link “things” in the “Internet of Everything”, share books, reveal knowledge and focus wisdom.

Software Defined Communities

Software Defined Communities (SDC) are simple, a few moving parts (cloud, mobile and people), cheap and launched within 6 months. A few inputs, maximum prosperity output. As outlined in the following slide, we can aggregate “things” in the “Internet of Everything”, turn data into wisdom in 6 stages, share books to turn wisdom into prosperity. People with widom create distributed prosperity. Hierarchies with information centralise power, prosperity and are the cause of stagnation and poor productivity.

What? Telewisdom!

Wisdom Networks organise the wisdom and effort of the community by exchanging wisdom (knowledge plus action) between people via mobile devices. Society could evolve to telewisdom between people, and away from telecommunications between hierarchies. We move beyond the point to point telecommunications of the Information Age into person to person telewisdom in a Network Society which puts all 6 elements of wisdom in the cloud. Facebook did this for social. Wisdom Networks do the same thing for other communities of common interest.

A brief video introduction to Wisdom Networks and Network Society (8:27 video) - click to play

Why? Singularity! Simplicity! Society!
Information is everywhere, but there is no wisdom. We can now structure communities with peer to peer telewisdom (linking things in books and sharing them) with a profound impact on productivity, prosperity, transparency, accountability and global community. One web application transforms fragmented, exponential complexity with encompassing, exponential simplicity. History shows that people freed from organising process in an information economy will be deployed to contribution, especially in a network society.

Where? Everywhere!

Social networks achieved global telewisdom in social communities in 7 years. Wisdom networks will achieve telewisdom and seamless collaboration across all communities including health, education, equity market (and innovation), regions (eg European Union), industry, organisations and society. As few as 30 global networks could achieve global telewisdom. It’s evolution achieving more with less.

How? OTT web application!

Wisdom Networks put all 6 elements of wisdom in the cloud and come “Over the Top” (OTT) to aggregate the content via meta processes that provide telewisdom for every "thing" in the “Internet of Everything”. Each network can be launched within 90-180 days and transform a community within 2-5 years.

Who?

Either the people, corporations or government will implement the networks underlying global wisdom.

Everyone empowered, accountable and rewarded to facilitate “things” to outcomes

Wisdom Networks crowd create distributed leadership, productivity, transparency, and accelerate the Wisdom of Crowds (r)evolution to the next stage of organisational structure which is defined around software in the cloud. The organisation becomes a dynamic group of people with different types of roles that organise, push and facilitate things through the network to completion. Gamification rewards quantity and quality of contribution and penalises late delivery. Virtual "board" meetings are held by self-directed ad-hoc teams assigned with the responsibility for specific outcomes throughout the organisation. These teams can be the traditional board of directors, tactical teams pursuing tactical outcomes or a customer service team dealing with an intractable customer service problem. Individuals are empowered with Organisation Wisdom and held accountable with Governance Wisdom.

Participation, contribution, leadership everywhere!

Social networks achieved global wisdom (without outcomes) in social communities in 7 years. Wisdom networks will achieve telewisdom and seamless collaboration across all communities including health, education, equity market (and innovation), economic regions (eg European Union), industry, organisations and society in less than 5 years.The following screenshot shows how a person uses books within a Network Society:

A person to person structure with three roles across the community

There are three roles in a wisdom network. Everyone takes leadership so we can consider the structure completely flat. Executives execute the daily process of transactions/interactions between the organisation and others. Managers manage/review the daily process and implement tactics to achieve short-term outcomes. Directors direct the organisation toward specific outcomes by focus the wisdom of the organisation toward specific outcomes. The titles here represent what people do, not what they are. Wisdom Networks could be used in any community. A Doctor or nurse could be a Manager in a team managing a patients health. The patient is the executive. A teacher could be the manager for a student education. The student is the executive responsible for executing the daily process of achieving outcomes in their education.

Integrate anyone, anywhere into the organisation

A standard structure also means that anyone from anywhere can join the organisation instantly and participate in a specific “thing” in a specific function. Organisation Wisdom could become one of the 30 Global Wisdom Networks outlined below which could provide the standard interaction for all people within a specific community worldwide.

How? Put all 6 elements of wisdom in the cloud

Wisdom Networks put all 6 elements of wisdom in the cloud (not just 2) and come “Over the Top” (OTT) to aggregate and provide telewisdom for every thing in the “Internet of Everything”. Wisdom Networks organise the effort and intent of the community by exchanging wisdom (knowledge plus action) between people via mobile devices.

Gamification

40% of Fortune 1000 companies will use gamification as a means of motivation by 2015. Gamification in Wisdom Networks are easily calculated and implemented. Individuals pursue points. Points are earned by adding the number of things for contribution (number of “things”) by quality of each thing (determined by peers in real-time). Gamification could provide points for collaboration around health, education, equity market, government, service delivery or other community outcomes.

Availability of data and information

The Wisdom Network uses data and information “things”. They need to be made available by URL from siloed systems across the organisation. After 40 years of the Information Age and 10 years of internet, it is likely that providing access to “things” by URL would be simple.

Screenshots

The Wisdom Networks web site provides screenshots of a wisdom network in the various communities. They show “things” across the community and the 6 stage process (left to right) to convert data/information into wisdom (knowledge and outcomes) and wisdom into prosperity. These single screens for each community provides the means to participate and contribute to every “thing” in every community, industry and society. An example is provided below.

Features of individual books

Wisdom Books bring wisdom (data, information, community, collaboration, knowledge and wisdom) to the individual. Screenshots of eah wisdom community lists these things across the organisation. Other screenshots show wisdom in other communities. Features includes task management, audit trails, event management, discussions, polls, gantt chart etc.

Each of these functions is brought to every ”thing” across the community.

Things are not brought to tools within departments. By bring these functions to the “thing”, it means that one feature (ie task manager) is used everywhere (worldwide) resulting a dramatic reduction in the diversity of technologies used within departments, organisations, industry and society. Additional information is available from here.

Wisdom Networks needed for the long term survival of every organisation

Borderless collaboration is the key success factor for organisation. All communities can be reduced to people, “things”, books and wisdom communities. A Network Society platform can organise multiple communities using a single Wisdom platform. Wisdom networks provides the organisation with the ability to seamlessly collaborate across boundaries of organisation, industry, society and the global community.

An organisation that utilises a wisdom network could integrate itself with Society by not only organising things within the organisation, but also in industry (for partners) and society (for consumers and citizens). Wisdom Networks become the defining source of sustainable competitive advantage for an organisation in a Network Society.

Given the global capability of Combine (Wisdom) harvesters, it is also likely that the number of organisations required by society to achieve given outcomes is also likely to significantly reduced. This makes organisation and industry wisdom for any organisation a matter of long term survival. An Organisations wisdom network could become one of the 30 networks that become the foundation for Global Wisdom.

Anyone can connect, contribute, create, challenge or choose wisdom anywhere, anytime

Organisation Wisdom (and complementary networks for other communities) allow anyone, anywhere to connect, contribute to a Wisdom Book, create knowledge or wisdom by assembling a book, challenge others with new knowledge (or resolutions in team board meetings) or choose their role or how to focus their energy within a virtual structure. People empowered with wisdom create productivity and distributed prosperity.

Global wisdom! Global outcomes! Global governance!

A single network (or a mesh of 30 networks) could organise global wisdom, global action to outcomes and enable real-time governance.

Realising potential - only people required!
People work together within Global Wisdom to realise human potential. External incentives to encourage participation and contribution are likely to be significantly less than an industrial economy. The utility offered by the network may drive participation and contribution with each small individual activity creating collective wisdom for everyone, everywhere. The people just need the networks and their devices to realise human potential.

Practical Impact

Accelerates the 'Shift' from centralised to distributed
All markets, industries and communities are shifting from centralisation to distributed structures. The key areas in the Shift are community structures, service delivery, money and financial markets. The Shift is occurring progressively by default. Global Wisdom implements the Shift proactively with a comprehensive approach to maximise and achieve benefits quickly, minimise costs of transition and ensure broad community participation, contribution and prosperity. In essence, Global Wisdom accelerates the Wisdom of Crowds (r)evolution.

Elective singularity
The practical impact is to introduce a technological singularity to advance society to the next stage of economic development. Previous Singularity have delivered an immediate 50-100% increase in output (for a given quantity of input/labour). This Singularity will deliver the same outcome.

Recovering personal time lost to hierarchy

The Information Age approach results in a worker being productive for 28% of their work time. The solution is a Network Society which increases productive work time from 28% to 50-75%, the result of which is society produces more with less. This is just evolution. Before the industrial revolution we used to devote 80% of the workforce to feeding society. This has fallen to less than 2%. The same things happens with process workers in the Information Age.

Exponential complexity becomes exponential simplicity

Facebook reduces complex multilayered, fragmented social telecommunications to one simple platform which exchanged information(relationship "wisdom") through mobile devices. Global Wisdom will do the same for other aspects of society and economy. Like other economic development transitions, the thousands of different sized containers, hierarchies and rail gauges of the Information Age are reduced to a few. This time the timeframe will be a few years given the possibility of populating the 30 networks in a short timeframe with a global audience.

Vertical (supply) to Horizontal (demand)
An Industrial Economy manages in supply in irganisation, industry and country verticals. The pursuit of prosperity ironcally restricts supply. A Network Society manages demand without constraint horizontally by aggregating the people and the wisdom of crowds without constraints.

Physical to virtual reduces “hardware” expenditure

The reliance or need on physical infrastructure is reduced. If the network brings Organisation Wisdom to the individual, the person does not need to physically travel to the organisation. Working within the organisation, or outside the organisation becomes irrelevant. Working away from the organisation recovers 9% of time spent by an individual on travel and means less capital expenditure on the hardware of traditional subsistence management.

Less economy, more society

What emerges will be more society (less economy) and more contribution (rather than consumption). It will definitely be sustainable without the inherent risk that seem to emanate from a few positions of influence in a few centralised hierarchies. Wisdom Networks also empower individuals by crowd creating distributed prosperity and wisdom between people.

Increasing output

A Wisdom Network means that a community, industry or organisation can increase the productivity of those within the hierarchy, and also acquire contribution from those beyond the organisational boundary.

Video: 50%+ productivity jump from Singularity (3:01 video) - click to play

It may not be a threefold increase as outlined in the video. This increasing output could be exchanged for a decrease in working hours, greater output or the people can be redeployed to other contribution. The key question becomes what is it that we get the former "Information Age" process workers to do. They could make a significant contribution .. but where? We need Education Wisdom to train up the displaced workers for new sectors of the economy which emerge. In practice, those people will turn to the 30 global networks and make a contribution to those networks based upon merit. Their contribution may, or may not, be rewarded with micropayments.

Global human potential lifts from 2.5% to 23.5%

Our “Industrial economy” society structure yields only 2.5% of human potential which is a fraction of human potential. A Network Society structure lifts human potential to 23.5% (with the current 3bn people connected) or 57.5% of human potential (if all 7.1bn people were connected to the internet). A ‘Network Society’ structure can yield 9-21 times more human potential than an ‘Industrial Economy’ structure.

Leadership everywhere and responsiveness

Organisations ask too much of a few and not enough of everyone else. An individual in an organisation may have a specific role (director, manager, executive) in a specific function within an organisation. That individual can, however, seek contribution from anyone (in real-time) by sharing a book which immediately transfers knowledge and seeks wisdom. This means the individual can drive toward an outcome about any “thing” and involve anyone. The organisation leverages everyone. Everyone becomes a leader. Everyone can contribute to anything in organisation. industry or society.

People can be anywhere

If knowledge and wisdom about any “thing” can be transferred instantly, then new people can join the organisation and make an immediate contribution to a “thing” from anywhere. This has many ramifications. Shortages of skills in a specific geography can be overcome by a virtual structure.

Change in the structure of work means less travel and oil consumption

Wisdom structures mean less travel, more time for family and also less oil consumption. Some believe that the end of cheap oil is a catastrophe for physical and urban layouts which assumed cheap oil forever. A virtual approach to work changes this paradigm. In essence, wisdom can be anywhere, so work wisdom can be at home (rather than needing physically travel to a city). The result is a decline in oil consumption.

Organisations become seamlessly integrated with industry and society

Organisation become seamlessly integrated with their industry, society and the global community. Organisations participate in the exchange of wisdom about "things" in the Internet of Everything. At the end of the Information Age, organisations have created virtual information things for the physical things in their organisation. A Wisdom Network simply comes over the top and aggregates those information things (with wisdom things beyond the organisation boundary. They can achieve more with less by leveraging the crowd. They will need less staff, but with greater engagement in the community more people participating in the network beyond the traditional organisational boundary will increase the people utilised. People anywhere in the world can participate and contribute to an organisation and its management. Additional information at www.wisdomnetworks.im/networks/organisation .

Service delivery

If wisdom is bought to every thing in the community the service delivery can also be organised within the community (and not in distant hierarchies). The actual delivery of services can also be distributed in the community. Isolated hierarchies that organise service delivery ouside the community become redundant. It is the network that organises service delivery and people embedded in the community that deliver the service. Service delivery is organised in the network and delivered by the community (not hierarchies).

Wisdom Networks may deliver organisation survival post singularity and sustainable competitive advantage

Wisdom suggests an internal strategy of building "wisdom" within the organisation (corporations or government) to maximise productivity, responsiveness, agility to maximise prospects for survival. There is also an external opportunity to extend the organisations wisdom network to organise wisdom for large tracts of industry and society. Global Wisdom suggests as few a 30 networks could achieve global wisdom. If the overdue singularity does occur and less inputs ( technologies and organisations) are required for a given output, then a wisdom network or strategy becomes the means to ensure an organisation is one of the post-singularity organisations.

CaaS is the next stage of cloud computing, economic development, exports and society

Communities as a Service (CaaS) is the next layer of cloud computing, economic development and exports and the path to a simpler society. From a information perspective, open source technologies are assembled to organise communities in a web based platform. From an economic development perspective, CaaS organises wisdom and effort and regional and global participation drives export revenue. In seven years a handful of companies primarily from the United States have captured global social “wisdom” and earn significant export revenue. CaaS can earn export revenue from the other communities.

Specific benefits within specific communities

Wisdom Networks bring all 6 elements of wisdom to every person and “thing” in society. The Information Age only moved information things among centralised structures. By introducing a standard way for people to exchange wisdom, Wisdom Networks can create and share Productive Knowledge across organisation, industry, country and globally.

Every community embodied in a wisdom network can achieve transparency, accessibility, meritocracy and transparency and real-time participation and contribution. These features are not typical of an Industrial economy. Often there are incentives to prevent these attributes from emerging.

Let's have a look at the practical impact on some specific communities ...

Equity Market Wisdom

Companies, advisers and investors links every thing in financial markets into books which are shared with each other to reveal knowledge and focus the wisdom and effort of crowds on outcomes. Equity Market Wisdom delivers a singularity jump in accessibility, capital allocation, remote services, liquidity, meritocracy and transparency which creates a global transparent and accessible equity market available to all. Equity Market Wisdom brings wisdom to every company, adviser and investor globally and transcends isolated pockets of effective financial markets by bring together all the required elements of an efficient and effective financial market in the network.

Education Wisdom

Education brings wisdom to students, parents and teacher. Anyone, anywhere can participate and contribute to the process of education to anyone around the world. Education is crowd created and knowledge is universally available. The bottlenecks of formal education systems which certify an education by issuing a degree are bypassed in favour of real-time education.

Health Wisdom

Wisdom Health brings wisdom (knowledge, collaboration , outcomes) to doctors, patients, nurses and other caregivers everywhere in real-time via mobile devices Health Wisdom comes “Over the Top” and aggregates health things in the Internet of Everything, exchanges wisdom from person to person and focuses the wisdom of crowds on outcomes in real-time. Health Wisdom transcends information silos in industry and organises people, things and process everywhere in the cloud. A cloud based person to person network delivers productivity, transparency and accessibility to healthcare.

Country Wisdom

National Wisdom Network (NWN) organise everything, everywhere and everyone in the cloud and accelerate the “Shift” to Network Society. Network Society empowers everyone with real-time wisdom and crowd creates community productivity, growth, transparency and distributed prosperity.

Wisdom Advantage of Nations

The means to achieve national prosperity changes. In the Agricultural Age, Comparative Advantage stated that prosperity was derived from margin cost of production in the agriculture. In the Industrial Age, Competitive Advantage (of Nations) expanded this further to include the systematic assembly of complementary physical and other elements to drive productivity and growth further.

The Wisdom Advantage of Nations uses a virtual approach to assembling Productive Knowledge which achieves prosperity by turning open data into collective wisdom into national prosperity using the internet. The physical approach to Productive Knowledge underlying can’t scale to provide the knowledge or a effective means to organise action, contribution and participation from the community. Virtual Productive Knowledge can also be organised across international boundaries and could drive export revenue for the next generation.

Nations could a National Wisdom Network and then provide remote services to the rest of the world in specific sectors where is has a wisdom advantage. For example, a nationally based 'Health Wisdom' network could also facilitate remote services (or concierge) services to people in other countries and earn significant export revenue and provide a globally competitive markets transcending national boundaries. Additional information available here.

Developing countries can jump the 'Middle Income Trap'

Wisdom Network organise and focus the wisdom of crowds in a community. The competitive advantage of nations was primary focussed on productivity in the physical world. A Network Society that organises and aggregates wisdom in a Network Society has another opportunity. The wisdom networks that organise their network society (or a specific community within it) can be used to bring wisdom to anyone else in the world. This means that a national, organisation or individual wisdom network can focus the wisdom and effort of crowds for any community in the world. It also provides a source of competitive advantage and the opportunity to jump over the ‘middle income’ trap which has plagued developing countries. Additional explanation in this article.

Government Wisdom

Government Wisdom brings wisdom, government and service delivery to every citizen (rather than bringing people to government hierarchies) in person to person networks which enable the citizen to participate and contribute to their health, education and democracy in real-time via mobile. Government current uses a physical and hierarchical structure which is removed from the community. There is more process than outcomes and effort is wasted on “Information Age” processes. By using a virtual person to person network within the community, government uses much less resources to achieve more productivity, prosperity, and higher services capability. The result is a singularity jump in productivity, service levels, outcomes, and citizens empowered with wisdom in all their communities.

Regional Wisdom

People and Productive Knowledge can be organised across countries in wisdom networks. This provides a new means to achieve regional trade and diplomatic outcomes.

Forms Wisdom

Communities also requires Forms. Organisation Wisdom also incorporates existing (or new) forms prepared by the organisation. An example of Forms Wisdom is provided here.

Governance Wisdom is available to every individual on anything

All forms of organisation have projects which need governance to guide a group or community toward outcomes. Teams could be formed from within the community or organisation to undertake specific objectives. These teams could be self-directed, but their activities could be transparent and accountable by making the books broadly available. Accountability and progress could be transparent to the community by using Boardbooks (ie board meetings) to achieve transparency and accountability for the team activiites. Individuals could form part of short or long term teams which publish BoardBooks.

Rather than one board meeting at the top, dynamically assembled teams hold board meetings on an agreed schedule and apply the same principles to smaller objectives. Each team could be responsible for cascading levels of tactics to achieve a final outcomes. Any team member can propose a resolution (focused on a solution or outcome) and all team members have a vote. The team is accountable for making resolutions, not making resolutions and how the voted because the “book” becomes a permanent record of governance (subject to real-time or retrospective review by peers). There is also the potential to implement trans-governance where every governance process across society has representatives from the organisation, industry and community members to ensure governance from a broad community (not narrow organisation) perspective.

Real-time governance and wisdom can be bought to everyone, everywhere including a students education, an electronic health record, a capital raising in the equity market, high value projects, local community projects, or global issues.

Challenges

Resistance from the status quo

The status quo, that have derived power and profit from centralised structures and hardware defined communities, are likely to resist change. The people in influential positions may be unwilling to innovate, unable to recognise the possibilities, or unwilling to relinquish positions of influence. I fear that collapse or crisis is required before change. The current generation of management thinks in terms of hardware defined communities, not software defined communities.

Customer adoption
Each network can be launched within 90-180 days. Each of those networks can (with "Internet Neutrality") reach every person with internet access. The networks can bring wisdom to every individual and community. The key issue will be consumer adoption (informing people of the new way to achieve outcomes). Facebook has already taught people to convert social things into social books and share them. The 30 wisdom networks will do the same thing. People that can reach large numbers of people will need to inform people of new efficiencies resulting from wisdom being used in their day to day interactions.

Single sign-on
People can also use one login (OpenID) to login in to the 30 networks (or hundreds of networks) across network society. The can quickly transfer between all their communities quickly without needing to login at each network.

The key challenge is consumer adoption.

Regulatory risk
A second challenge will be government response to legislate the "Information Age" in place to preserve employment, sovereignty or other issues that may be a concern.

First Steps

Wisdom needs a reference site

A reference site is needed to provide validation that the virtual (ie software defined communities) are superior to the physical (ie hardware defined communities).

First technical steps for an organisation

A template Wisdom network can be made available in 5 days. In the longer term, it may be available by download. 2 hours of training can provide suitable technical people with the additional skills to define Organisation Wisdom. With one basic interaction between people, the only thing that changes are the tags which tell the community what each thing is. The content of each thing changes, the structure of the interaction and tag/type of thing do not. The community spends 90-180 days defining the 6 types of “things” that constitute their organisation, customising and making data/information available by URL from isolated information systems.

Data into Wisdom

The following slide summarise the process of turning data into wisdom. In summary, existing information systems make their data/information available to the wisdom network by URL. The information could be scraped into the wisdom network, or “things” created by people as required. The data/information is tagged to say what it is (data, information, community, collaboration, knowledge, wisdom).

Wisdom into prosperity

Prosperity and success needs to be defined by each community. Prosperity may mean greater efficiency (less time spent on process), less capital expenditure on physical assets, increased productive time from each individual, greater agility, innovation from anywhere or the opportunity to expand the boundary of the organisation to include an industry wisdom strategy which captures the industry within the network.

Launch

As few as 30 networks can achieve global wisdom. Facebook has achieved Global Wisdom in social. As few as 30 networks, can achieve Wisdom in other aspects of society. These networks could be launched within 6 months and transform their respective communities within 2-5 years. Telewisdom will be a compelling productivity solution for each individual which drives demand from people and rapid adoption. Either the people, organisations or governments will build these networks.

The first steps are to find the 30 parties to build the 30 networks. These could be individuals, corporations or government.

Achieving Global Wisdom in 3 steps over 3 years
The problem is that we reach the end of the Information Age we are suffering from centralised stagnation. There is no solution other than restructuring society from captive telecommunications networks, organisational centralisation and information distribution amongst hierarchies, towards telewisdom, distributed structures and the exchange of wisdom (knowledge and outcomes) between people using their mobile devices. This is explained in the 3 minute video ‘How to achieve global prosperity and wisdom in 3 steps over 3 years’.

The following graphic summarises the path to prosperity for a country.

A country establishes a National Wisdom Network (NWN) to achieve country wisdom. Regional Wisdom is achieved by linked NWN's. A country can also export wisdom by providing the foundation for a global wisdom network (specialising in health, education, equity market) which derives export earnings.

The corporation is more likely to establish wisdom networks. Organisational Wisdom can encompass increasingly more people outside the organisation boundary and ultimately become one of the 30 networks which are the foundation for Global Wisdom. An organisation that can learn to capture wisdom within also has the opportunity to organise wisdom for a global audience.

Credits

Wisdom Networks build on the innovation of open source and free software communities. The community has been building the foundation for global wisdom, distributed structures and prosperity for decades. The team at www.wisdomnetworks.im/people have helped put this together.

Materials

Wisdom Networks web site

The www.wisdomnetworks.im web site provides comprehensive, clickable tours of each community. The content includes presentations, videos, explanatory letters and a 200+ article blog.

20 minute crash course ( http://www.wisdomnetworks.im/learn/wisdom-in-15 )

Video: How to achieve Global Wisdom and prosperity in 3 steps over 3 years (3:14 video) http://is.gd/wisdomin3
Video: The SHIFT from Information Age to Wisdom Networks (4:26 video)
Video: A brief video introduction to Wisdom Networks and Network Society (8:27 video)
Video: Singularity Productivity (3:26 video)

Magazines to help specific communities acquire wisdom