ExO AI

A MTP describes a better future for the world (or at least your industry or community). A great MTP attracts the customers, community, partners and resources and is an ExO’s competitive edge. It is so inspirational, it generates a cultural movement around the ExO, ultimately creating its own community, tribe and culture.

Minimize full-time staff. Outsource tasks. In any information-enabled business a large internal staff seems increasingly unnecessary, counterproductive and expensive. Outsourcing whenever you can makes your company agile, flexible, fast-moving, and cost-effective.

ExOs leverage data and algorithms to scale in ways that weren’t possible even 5 or 10 years ago. Algorithms are a critical future component of every business. Almost all the business insights and decisions of tomorrow will be data-driven. Given that they are much more objective, scalable, and flexible than human beings, they are also critical for organizations committed to driving exponential growth.

Hold on to what’s absolutely critical. Outsource everything else. Renting, sharing or leveraging assets — as opposed to owning them — enables organizations to easily share and scale assets not only locally, but also globally, and without boundaries.

ExOs have very customized processes for how they interface with customers and other organizations. Interfaces tend to become the most distinctive internal characteristics of a fully realized ExO. There’s a good reason for this: at peak productivity, Interfaces empower the enterprise’s management of its SCALE external attributes.

A real-time, adaptable dashboard with all essential company and employee metrics, accessible to everyone in the organization. Dashboards which enable visibility allow business, individuals and team assessments to be carried out efficiently and much faster than ever before. Dashboards also allow you to see problems before they grow into big mistakes. 

Self-organizing, multidisciplinary teams operating with decentralized authority. Small, independent and interdisciplinary teams are critical to future organizations, especially at the edges.

Social Technologies, or collaborative technologies, allows organizations to manage real-time communication amongst all employees. They are comprised of seven key elements: Social Objects, Activity Streams, Task Management, File Sharing, Telepresence, Virtual Worlds and Emotional Sensing. When implemented, these elements create transparency and connectedness and, most importantly, lower an organization’s information latency.