THE EDGE MAP™

The Edge Map™ provides a conceptual map of the perspective we have been developing. It highlights the three key pillars of this perspective. We begin with THE CHANGING WORLD which describes how the world around us is changing, with a particular focus on the deep dynamics shaping the surface events that distract us on a daily basis.

The second pillar, CHANGING DIRECTIONS, focuses on a more prescriptive view mapping out the direction we will need to pursue to succeed in this changing world.

The third pillar, FINDING NEW PATHS, recognizes that there is a considerable distance between where we are today and where we need to be. It provides insight on the pragmatic migration paths that will help us to evolve more quickly and effectively.

Any of these three pillars alone has very limited value – it is only by exploring the ensemble of these pillars that we can begin to both make sense of, and make progress in, the Big Shift playing out around us.

THE CHANGING WORLD

How is the World Changing? 
From Core to Edge

The Big Shift

• Foundations
• Information technology 
• Social media
•  Digital infrastructures
• Service grids
• Service oriented architectures
• Cloud computing
• Outside-in architectures
•  Public policy shifts
• Globalization 
• Innovation blowback 
• Flows
• Tacit knowledge 
•  Relationships
•  Creation of new knowledge
•  Core/edge
•  Spikes 
•  Shelf space/attention 
• Exponential learning
• Creation spaces
•  Knowledge management
•  Scalable efficiency/scalable learning
• Collaboration curves

Measure the Big Shift

• Shift Index

• U.S. Shift   
•  Industry Shift  
  

• Shift metrics

CHANGING DIRECTIONS

What Will Be Required to Succeed?
From Stocks to Flows

Focus on individuals

• Passion 
• Disposition
• Frames of perception
• Mindsets
• Identity 
• Meaning
• Motivation

Innovate Institutions

• Rationale for institutions
• Unbundling/rebundling
• Outsourcing TOSE
• Offshoring 
• M&A
• Intermediation/disintermediation
• Ecosystems
• Webs 
• Networks
• Aggregation networks
• Relational networks 
• Social networks
• Process networks
• Practice networks
• Communities
• Communities of interest  Net Gain
• Communities of practice SLOFI
• Spikes
• Platforms
• Pull platforms 
• Connection platforms
• Creation platforms 
• Shaping platforms

Mobilize through pull

• Access
• Open innovation
• Modularity
• Loose coupling 
• Process orchestration
• Attract
• Serendipity
• Collaboration marketing
• Return on attention
• Achieve
• Innovation
• Learning
• Talent development
• Dynamic specialization TOSE
• Productive friction
• Workplace/learningscape
• Shaping strategies 
• Management disciplines
• Strategy 
• Operations
• Organization 
• IT management

Reframe public policy 

FINDING NEW PATHS

How Can We Get From Here to There?
From Transactions to Relationships

Individual

• Passion as profession 
• Passion to potential

Institutions

• Build fitness

• Economic restructuring 

• Make the journey

• FAST strategy 
• Trajectory
• Leverage
• Leveraged growth
• Pace
• From core to edge 
• Building trust 
• Value creation/capture
• Strategic advantage

• Expand domains