Ismail Salim, Malone Michael S., van Geest Yuri. Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)

Diversion Books, 2014. — 326 p. — ISBN10: 1626814236; ISBN13: 978-1626814233.In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth.In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company―the Exponential Organization―that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using technology. An ExO can eliminate the incremental, linear way traditional companies get bigger, leveraging assets like community, big data, algorithms, and new technology into achieving performance benchmarks ten times better than its peers.Three luminaries of the business world―Salim Ismail, Yuri van Geest, and Mike Malone―have researched this phenomenon and documented ten characteristics of Exponential Organizations. Here, in EXPONENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS, they walk the reader through how any company, from a startup to a multi-national, can become an ExO, streamline its performance, and grow to the next level.About the Author
Salim Ismail is the founding Executive Director at Singularity University, where he moderates most academic programs, and is its current Global Ambassador. Before that, as a vice president at Yahoo, he built and ran Brickhouse, Yahoo’s internal incubator. His most recent company, Angstro, was sold to Google in August 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies including PubSub Concepts, which laid some of the foundation for the real-time web. He also spent several years as a management consultant with CSC Europe and later with ITIM Associates. Ismail holds a B.Sc. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Waterloo in Canada.ForewordThe Iridium Moment
Doubling Down
Exponential Organizations
PART ONE: Exploring the Exponential Organization
Chapter One: Illuminated by Information
Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Companies
Chapter Three: The Exponential Organization
Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP)
Staff on Demand
Community & Crowd
Algorithms
Leveraged Assets
Engagement
Chapter Four: Inside the Exponential Organization
Interfaces
Dashboards
Experimentation
Autonomy
Social Technologies
Chapter Five: Implications of Exponential Organizations
1. Information Accelerates Everything
2. Drive To Demonetization
3. Disruption is the New Norm
4. Beware the “Expert”
5. Death to the Five-Year Plan
6. Smaller Beats Bigger
7. Rent, Don’t Own
8. Trust Beats Control and Open Beats Closed
9. Everything is Measurable and Anything is Knowable
How Exponential is Your Organization?
PART TWO: Building the Exponential Organization
Chapter Six: Starting an ExO
Ignition
Step 1: Select an MTP (Massive Transformative Purpose).
Step 2: Join or Create Relevant MTP Communities
Step 3: Compose a Team
Step 4: Breakthrough Idea
Step 5: Build a Business Model Canvas
Step 6: Find a Business Model
Step 7: Build the MVP
Step 8: Validate Marketing and Sales
Step 9: Implement SCALE and IDEAS
Step 10: Establish the Culture
Step 11: Ask Key Questions Periodically
Step 12: Building and Maintaining a Platform
In Concert
Lessons for Enterprise ExOs (EExOs)
Chapter Seven: ExOs and Mid-Market Companies
Example 1: TED
Example 2: GitHub
Example 3: Coyote Logistics
Example 4: Studio Roosegaarde
Retrofitting an ExO
Example 5: GoPro
Chapter Eight: ExOs for Large Organizations
Transform Leadership
Education
Board Management
Implement Diversity
Skills and Leadership
Partner with, Invest in or Acquire ExOs
Disrupt[X]—set up Edge ExOs
Inspire ExOs at the Edge
Hire a Black Ops Team
Experimentation
Autonomy
Social Technologies
Chapter Five: Implications of Exponential Organizations
1. Information Accelerates Everything
2. Drive To Demonetization
3. Disruption is the New Norm
4. Beware the “Expert”
5. Death to the Five-Year Plan
6. Smaller Beats Bigger
7. Rent, Don’t Own
8. Trust Beats Control and Open Beats Closed
9. Everything is Measurable and Anything is Knowable
How Exponential is Your Organization?
PART TWO: Building the Exponential Organization
Chapter Six: Starting an ExO
Ignition
Step 1: Select an MTP (Massive Transformative Purpose).
Step 2: Join or Create Relevant MTP Communities
Step 3: Compose a Team
Step 4: Breakthrough Idea
Step 5: Build a Business Model Canvas
Step 6: Find a Business Model
Step 7: Build the MVP
Step 8: Validate Marketing and Sales
Step 9: Implement SCALE and IDEAS
Step 10: Establish the Culture
Step 11: Ask Key Questions Periodically
Step 12: Building and Maintaining a Platform
In Concert
Lessons for Enterprise ExOs (EExOs)
Chapter Seven: ExOs and Mid-Market Companies
Example 1: TED
Example 2: GitHub
Example 3: Coyote Logistics
Example 4: Studio Roosegaarde
Retrofitting an ExO
Example 5: GoPro
Chapter Eight: ExOs for Large Organizations
Transform Leadership
Education
Board Management
Implement Diversity
Skills and Leadership
Partner with, Invest in or Acquire ExOs
Disrupt[X]—set up Edge ExOs
Inspire ExOs at the Edge
Hire a Black Ops Team