The Progress Economy

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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
  • Exploring Progress Proposition

    Stop asking “What product should we build?” and start asking “What capabilities do our customers lack that hinders them making progress they seek, and how can we package those into the resource types they are looking for?” Savvy leaders unlock sales, innovation, and growth by repeatedly and purposefully aligning their proposed resource mix and progress-making […]

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  • Progress Proposition Continuum

    Are you: Position your target Seeker(s) and your proposition(s) on the proposition continuum – then innovate to close the gap. Or, deliberately slide along the continuum to explore new proposals, new resource mixes, and new target Seekers. What we’re thinking Seekers often look for help to make progress, but not all Seekers want to be […]

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  • Progress Resource Mix

    Enterprises/ecosystems offer a mix of resources for a seeker to integrate with when attempting to make progress. This service mix comprises a specific combination of: goods, physical resources, systems, and people. Altering the blend of the service mix is a source of innovation.

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