OpenBC
A very good tool to do Open Business is OpenBC (http://www.openbc.com/). I do not see it as a “Social Networking” service, but rather as a collaboration set of tools (messaging, event scheduling, groups) around which a community of business people are gathering to do business.
I also believe that tools are what will foster change within the business community, rather than grand ideas. By making tools available that allow different ways of doing business (and Skype is an example of this), people will naturally start adopting new habits that will lead to hopefully better ways of doing business.
The big opportunity in this area is to change how “The Corporation” (http://www.thecorporation.com/) behaves, or maybe get rid of it at some point.
With the tools that are being offered to day, the knowledge workers are becoming more independent from a central infrastructure (the intranet), and it opens the door for “collaborative entrepreneurship” where we all become our own business, and we work together on projects with agreements to share the revenue from these projects based on the value added.
The trick here is to define “value added”. There is room in this area for a rating system, maybe someone on this site has info on such a system…
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Could something like this be devised for advancing Integrative Improvement™ outlined at http://www.integrative-thinking.com? At present I am seeking catalysts familiar with Open Business models, tools and practice to help advance the Integrative Improvement Institutes™ Project.
Very briefly, Integrative Improvement™ is a bottom-up, demand-centred approach to building a sustainable global economy based on our current scientific understanding of a world that tends to be self-organising with human beings whose minds are naturally integrative. With this approach current legal entities remain but business, government and civil society organisations participate in Integrative Federations™ of end users/citizens, their local entrepreneurs/advocates, facilitation enterprises and suppliers of goods and services bound together by joint venture agreements.The operation of these joint ventures is enabled by applying training and technology to the way we plan, organise and act through the process of Integrative Improvement™ at http://www.integrative-thinking.com . This process addresses power and integrity (individual and organisational) directly and in conjunction.
Graham,
I am sure this set of tools can be used to advance your project. I can only recommend that you give it a try. Note that you could create a group within OpenBC to start engage with people on Integrative Improvement, and manage communication within the Integrative Federations you mention.
The more usage we get out of the tool, the more we can ask for improvements from the OpenBC team…