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Evolutionary Organizations
Can your organization adapt fast enough? This is a fundamental question today, for every organization, every enterprise. But it’s not enough to have agile delivery teams or continuous delivery: To be “fast enough,” your enterprise must have a responsive technology platform, an experimental and learning culture, and an executive team dedicated to fi
... See moreJim Highsmith • EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation
However, anyone that has worked within a DAO in the past year knows this is rarely the case. In reality, many DAOs operate using socialware, relying on documented practices and hoping there is sufficient human attention and coordination to follow these written rules.
Chase Chapman • Scaling Trust in DAOs: Trustware vs Socialware
DAOs are hard to build because we're using the wrong mental models
Stop using:
- Decentralized protocols
- Permissionless networks
Start using:
- Self-managing orgs
- Sociocracy
- Co-ops
The human layer requires different mental models than the computational layer
This is how we de-risk change: by building continual evolution and learning into the architecture itself. If you do it all the time, suddenly change is no longer scary.
Pini Reznik • Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation
Since DAOs are blockchain-based organizations that usually are not tied to a corporate entity, they leave a lot of room for rapid experimentation in organization and incentive design. Members can collectively source an idea, funnel collectively managed resources toward shared goals, iterate, and ship with rapid speed.