Schonbrunn Palace

Given an environment as sensitive as is today’s with the population of organizations pressing to influence the course of events, it is foolhardy to attempt an entry unless the new player holds some unusual cards.  Not only must this be the case, he must show some appreciation of the tools required to create a viable operation.  Having elected to go with a core competency extended with a virtual organization, the Triad must select effective planning tools.  Currently preferred for two of the more difficult tasks are Werner Hoffmann‘s “Strategies for managing a portfolio of alliances” and the MIT Collaboratorium for reasons summarized following:

Werner Hoffmann develops from four requirements:

• Developing and implementing a portfolio strategy

• Portfolio monitoring

• Portfolio co-ordination

• Institutionalizing multi-alliance management

The MIT Collaboratorium because effective deliberation requires that:

• All important issues are considered

• The broadest possible range of high-quality solution ideas are identified

• The strongest arguments for and against each idea are captured

• People can distinguish good from bad arguments

• Individuals select solutions rationally, i.e. they consider all the important issues and ideas, and make selections that are consistent with the arguments they most trust

• The aggregate results fairly represent the “wisdom of the people”  © Mark Klein

Application

• Werner Hoffmann’s contribution is well grounded in studies of 25 industrial operations ranging from banking through pharmaceutical to telecommunications. Documented application to governance situations is not known.

• The Collaboratorium is in prototype with a cooperative effort of MIT and the University of Naples.   Application appears to be broad spectrum.

Frontier

Most challenging is the potential to think in terms of light years as a functional dimension of a communications network.  There is more than a little encouragement to believe that even this is not approaching the limit of what exists.  An example of this encouragement is contained in this extract from Triad Phase III working draft impressions:

• Stories about androids living on a planet which was disintegrating.  Some people were night fishing.  One had his line around his wrist to sense the slightest nibble.  Suddenly, the water exploded and the line took his hand off.  Before he bled to death, a new hand appeared on the stump.  He kept the severed hand preserved in formaldehyde.  One day it disappeared, subsequently reappeared and said “We don’t like you fishing in these waters.”  Following that, many more severed hands appeared followed by a small man (elf?) who told the neighborhood that we don’t like visitors either. (12-26-08)

Continually probing IPv7/Web4.0 potential gives encouraging signs that significant untapped support may be in the wings.  This Phase V impression supports the possibility.

• A polished steel sphere rolled to one end of a hammock.  A golfer following through on a drive (12-19-09)

Continued development by intuitively probing IPv8 and looking for reactions seems to have expanded the range of species capable of participation, a conclusion is drawn from this Phase VII impression.

• A short story about a place where people were transforming into animals, in this case rabbits, surfaced.   The transformation seemed to be for recreation, a practice with which game wardens were familiar. (5.28.10)

Work in Progress