Category: Operation Layer

This is one of four layers in the progress economy and captures those aspects relating to attempting to make progress.

Here you’ll find:

  • actors, including sub pages for each
    • Progress Seekers
    • Progress Helpers
      • Progress owners
    • Externalities
  • making progress – the progress-making activities and progress attempts
  • helping make progress:
    • Progress propositions
      • Progress resource mix – employees/AI, systems, data, goods, physical resources, locations (physical/digital)
      • Progress Continuum – enabling to relieving
  • lubricating progress – service credits

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

Articles in this category
  • Progress Owners

    Within a Progress Helper there should be an accountable Progress Owner for each proposition. This person is accountable for the proposition’s marketing, innovation, and execution.

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  • Externalities

    Left to their own devices, Seekers may pursue progress that has a direct, or accidental, detrimental impact on society. Externalities counter that by injecting safeguards into a Seeker’s progress sought.

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  • Progress Helpers

    Progress Helpers offer supplementary capabilities that offer the potential to enable Seekers to make better progress than they can on their own. Whilst Seekers are predominant judgers of value, Helpers may make similar progress comparisons to decide to offer/withdraw their capabilities to a particular progress attempt.

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  • Progress Seekers

    Progress Seekers are looking to make progress in all aspects of their life. Critically, every actor is a Seeker and they are the predominant judgers of improvements in well-being (value)

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  • Service Credits

    What we’re thinking Service credits are value-less promises of future service representing a measure of effort. They mediate temporal and magnitude differences in service exchange and lubricate transitive indirect exchange. Money is a successful implementation of service credits; bitcoin, shells, rocks have been alternatives. …editing below this point They have no inherent value and can

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  • Progress owner

    What we’re thinking A progress owner is responsible for helping seekers make some specific progress. This means they are responsible for one or more proposition – including: They’re like a supercharged product owner, with responsibility for innovation (improving seeker’s progress) Editing below here Progress owner Progress helpers need to actively manage their offerings. They need

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  • Location – a resource mix element

    Editing below here Secondly there are those physical resources where progress is made. Such as buildings. The hospital where operations take place, for example. And we can think of elements in this category in terms of Bitner’s servicescapes. innovating physical resources Servicescapes can always be innovated. And often this will be tied to non-functional progress –

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  • Goods – a resource mix element

    Editing below here Goods are examples of operand resources. Remember that in order to make progress with these types of resources, they must be acted upon. They are usually physical, tangible objects. Although we can have digital goods such as digital films, music, and e-books, etc. The distinguishing feature of goods in the progress economy is that

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  • Systems – a resource mix element

    Editing below here When we talk about systems in the progress resource mix, we’re once more referring to outward-facing systems rather than internal. That is, systems with which seekers interact in order to attempt making progress. The new client interfaces of the updated den Hertog model above. And we find that systems can be either

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