The Progress Economy

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Category: Foundation Layer

This is one of four layers in the progress economy and captures those aspects that are at the foundation level. That is, the aspects on which the progress economy is built.

Here you’ll find the principles the progress economy is built upon.

  • progress, including sub pages for
    • progress as a verb / state transition
    • progress as a state
    • progress as a noun
  • value, and why we need to think progress-first, including pages for
    • value-in-exchange – our traditional view, previously successful but with challenging blind-spots
    • value-in-use – the main alternative to the above, solving the blind-spots, but struggles to be actionable
    • value-through-progress – our actionable model, built on top of value-in-use
  • resources, progress is made, and value emerges, from resource integrations. Resources are carriers of capabilities and come in two forms
    • operant
    • operand

There are also articles covering other foundational definitions and ideas:

  • What is service?
  • What is service exchange?
  • What does phenomenological – a word we’ll use a lot – mean?
  • What is service-dominant logic (from which we build the progress economy)
  • What is the innovation problem?

You can find more about the four-layer functional operating system here.

Articles in this category
  • well-being-through-progress

    well-being-through-progress

    Forget value. It is your well-being you increasingly improve as you seek to make progress towards your progress sought. Discover the actionable model that will accelerate your sales, innovation and growth.

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  • Capabilities – the power behind progress

    Capabilities – the power behind progress

    Capabilities – like skills, knowledge, availability, strength – are the power behind progress: better capabilities, better progress; lacking capabilities is the foundational progress hurdle.

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  • Resources – carriers of capabilities

    Resources – carriers of capabilities

    Resoures carry capabilities; and one resource may be swapped for another if it carries the same capability (for example, an AI system for a compliance tam).

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  • Operant Resources

    Operant resource – such as people – act upon other resources in order make progress. In many cases they are the source of competitive advantage.

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  • Operand Resources

    Operand resources need to be acted upon in order for progress to be made.

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  • Understanding Progress

    Understanding Progress

    Anchor your thinking around Seekers’ progress and minimising progress hurdles, and you will outperform on innovation, sales, and growth, compared to those stuck on product features and focusing on value. What we’re thinking Progress – moving over time to a more desired state – is a new philosophy for understanding how the world works, solving the challenges our traditional value-first view gives us. Imagine a world where innovation lands, sales resonate, and growth accelerates – not because we focused on value, which is surprisingly hard to actionably define, but because we focus on what we are truly looking for: progress. Value, it…

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