Teaming

In the old days you were assigned to a corporate team, and that's where you stayed, building up bonds and trust and loyalty that would enable you and your teammates to collaborate effectively. 

Today, new forms of mass collaboration suggest that companies may be better off with a more self-organised approach to teaming. 

Wiki, Amazon, Linux, and others are mass collaborations of developers. 

Large scale efforts building peer to peer networks. Some teams form temporarily around a particular project, in much the same way that film crews come together for a few months at a time to produce a movie, and then go on their separate ways to work on other productions.  

This new approach to teaming is highly fluid and federated. Military forces are benefiting. 

Increasing teams work from home.specific desks and costs of office leases. Prosumer communities can be incredible source of innovation if companies give customers tools they need to participate in value production. 

Some will no doubt complain that such a radical approach to work-place organization is unmanageable. But if that were really the case then we wouldn't see communities like Wikipedia, the open source movement, or the Human Genome Project collaborating successful on a very large scale. With the right tools and enough transparency, a large and diverse group of self-selecting to add value can complete even the most complex tasks with only a minimum of central control

New alecksandrians are ushering in a new model of collaborative science that will lower the cost and accelerate the pace of technological progress in their industries. 

Platforms for participation create a global stage where large communities of partners can create value and, in many cases, new businesses in a highly synergistic ecosystem.