Exponential Organizations talk

1. Exponential Organizations
• Teodor Panayotov

4. 24
Larry Page – Google
24
“If I were a student, this
is where I’d want to be”
- Larry Page

5. SALIM ISMAIL @salimismail
// Global Ambassador, Founding Executive Director
Singularity University
// Co-Founder
Angstro
Confabb
PubSub
// Vice President
Yahoo

6. “Any company designed
for success in the 20th
century is doomed to
failure in the 21st.”
David Rose - Gust

9. Moore`s Law

10. © 2009, Salim Ismail 1
Powered by progress in computing

14. Pneumatic
Robotics

17. Wired.com ; 24 April 2015

19. Internet of Things
50B devices by 2020

20. Google Confidential and Proprietary
M2M communication will be
> 50%
of data traffic by 2030
1 trillion
connected devices
using low bandwidth

21. Newspapers

23. Netflix
4 billion
hours in Q1 2013

34. Software will eat
the world, in all
sectors.
Companies need to
adapt or they will
become extinct. In
the future every
company will
become a software
company
Mark Andreessen
founder of Netscape,
renowned Venture Capitalist
“
”

37. ExO
=
MTP + SCALE + IDEAS
the ExO formula

38. MTP
=
Massive, Transformative, Purpose
the mtp

39. "Radical breakthroughs for the benefits of humanity" Xprize
"Organize the world's information" Google
"Ideas worth spreading" TED
“Positively impact one billion people” SU
“Open Happiness” Coca Cola
Uniquely yours
Highly Aspirational
Neither narrow nor technology specific
Aimed at Heart & Mind
Declared with sincerity & confidence
strong MTPs

40. why an MTP?
// Power of Pull – So Aspirational that a community forms
// Helps attract and retain talent
// Changes the organizational focus from internal politics to external impact
// Helps organize and keep focus during rapid growth

41. S.C.A.L.E
External Attributes of an ExO
S – Staff on Demand
C – Community & Crowd
A – Algorithms
L – Leveraged Assets
E – Engagement

43. S.C.A.L.E
External Attributes of an ExO
S – Staff on Demand
C – Community & Crowd (funding, ideas etc)
A – Algorithms
L – Leveraged Assets
E – Engagement

45. S.C.A.L.E
External Attributes of an ExO
S – Staff on Demand
C – Community & Crowd
A – Algorithms
L – Leveraged Assets
E – Engagement

47. S.C.A.L.E
External Attributes of an ExO
S – Staff on Demand
C – Community & Crowd
A – Algorithms
L – Leveraged Assets
E – Engagement

49. S.C.A.L.E
External Attributes of an ExO
S – Staff on Demand
C – Community & Crowd
A – Algorithms
L – Leveraged Assets
E – Engagement (digital reputation, gamification)

51. I.D.E.A.S
Internal Attributes of an ExO
I – Interface Processes
D – Dashboards
E – Experimentation
A – Autonomy
S – Social Technologies

53. I.D.E.A.S
Internal Attributes of an ExO
I – Interface Processes
D – Dashboards
E – Experimentation
A – Autonomy
S – Social Technologies
OKRs: Objectives
& Key Results

54. OKR -
Objectives
and Key
Results

55. I.D.E.A.S
Internal Attributes of an ExO
I – Interface Processes
D – Dashboards
E – Experimentation
A – Autonomy
S – Social Technologies

57. I.D.E.A.S
Internal Attributes of an ExO
I – Interface Processes
D – Dashboards
E – Experimentation
A – Autonomy
S – Social Technologies

59. I.D.E.A.S
Internal Attributes of an ExO
I – Interface Processes
D – Dashboards
E – Experimentation
A – Autonomy
S – Social Technologies

61. Market Cap to a Billion

66. Key Takeaways
“Experts” tell you how something can’t be done.
Rent, don’t own, assets.
Everything is being turned into information, and is thus
measurable and knowable.
An ExO Diagnostic can help you score and analyze your
organization.

67. Market Cap improvement (2011 - 2014)
$20B | 10x$400B | 2,5x
$7B | 14x
$46B | 46x$41,2B | 20,5x
$19B | 19,000x +$1B (2013) | 50x

68. Vision
• We make IT Education 10x more accessible
• Our goal is to create the first global multi-tier marketplace for IT
trainers and courses
68
Resources
•Trainers
•Labs
•Course materials
Training Companies
•Global Knowledge
•Fast Lane
•QA
•FireFly
•FireBrand
Customers
•Telefonica
•BT
•IBM
•T-Systems
•Telecom Austria

69. 69
We provide trainers for all vendors to
the training companies.
IT Instructor has a pool of over 1000
certified trainers.
Customers include most major training
companies –Global Knowledge, Fast
Lane, QA, Firebrand, Firefly, HP, Arrow
Just like Freelancer.com for certified IT
trainers

70. 70
vs.
• We are building the first global online
marketplace for IT training courses
Connecting customers from over 25
countries to over 50 training companies,
incl. 10 of the top 20 IT companies
• Coursedot helps professionals and their
managers find, compare, and book the
training courses they need – at the time,
location, and price they want.
• It’s just like the Booking.com for IT
training courses.

71. We`re hiring:
teodor@coursedot.com
Some stats:
- 1000+ trainers in 60
countries
- Customers in 25
countries
- ExO partner (first
worldwide)

72. • Exponential Organizations Book – Salim Ismail
• Abundance – Peter Diamandis
• Yu Kai-Chou on gamification
• The Alliance – Reid Hoffmann
• Valve Employee Handbook
• Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horrowitz
• Zero to One – Peter Thiel
• Innovator`s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
• Exponentialorgs.com – rate your own company
• Bold – Peter Diamandis
• Enchanted Objects – David Rose
• Startup Nation – Saul Singer, Dan Senor
• Scrum – Jeff Sutherland
• The Sales Acceleration Formula – Mark Roberge
• Behind the Cloud – Marc Benioff