The Progress Economy

fixing innovation, sales, and firing up growth

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

  • Understanding Progress

    Understanding Progress

    What we’re thinking Imagine a world where innovation lands, sales resonate, and growth accelerates – not because we focused on value, but because we focused on progress (from which value emerges). But what exactly is progress? Progress – deceptively simple, deeply powerful – is the beating heart of the progress economy. We’re all trying to […]

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  • What is value?

    What is value?

    What we’re thinking What if our traditional view of value – despite its past success – is now holding us back? What if it’s quietly limiting our ability to innovate, sell, and grow? It’s time to re-examine what value really is – and unlock a model built for today’s challenges. At first glance, value feels easy to […]

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