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
  • Data – a resource mix elementData –

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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 an operant or an operand resource. For instance, a word processor is a system acting as an operand resource. It needs to be acted upon to make progress (“be valuable” if we allow ourselves to be lazy with definitions for a moment). Whereas a telephone…

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  • Employees – a resource mix element

    What we’re thinking Employees are the human resources of the helper. As operant resources they act on other resources in an attempt to make progress. Some employees may be offered in the progress resource mix, such as: nurses, teachers, cleaners, traffic wardens, consultants, sales team and so on. Typically the capabilities carried by employees leveraged in resource integration progress-making steps are their skills and knowledge. But can also include physical capabilities like strength, or the network the employee has etc. editing from here Employees – carriers of capability Employees are one of two operant resources a progress helper might offer…

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  • Progress Resource Mix

    Progress Resource Mix

    The main component of a proposition is the progress resource mix – some combination of employees, systems, data, goods, retained goods, and locations.

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  • Progress Owners

    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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  • Progress Proposition Continuum

    Progress Proposition Continuum

    Propositions sit on a continuum between relieving and enabling the Seeker – determined by who drives the majority of the progress-making activities. This influences the resource mix and the experiential/contextual progress offered.

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  • Well-being destruction

    Well-being destruction

    Value (improvements in well-being) can be destroyed y one or more actor in the progress attempt hinders progress.

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