The Progress Economy

Tag: Actors
What we’re thinking

There are 3 main actors in The Progress Economy:

  • The Progress Seeker – striving to make progress with everything in life (progress sought)
  • The Progress Helper – offering progress proposition(s): curated bundles of supplementary resources designed to help seekers reach a specific state (progress offered)
  • Externalities – injecting mandated or normative elements into the progress sought (not the progress offered), typically to protect societal interests. Think of governments, regulators, associations, and societal norms, etc.
Why this matters

Critically, everyone is a Progress Seeker, including Helpers. The unequal distribution of capabilties required to make progress powers The Progress Economy through service exchange – often indirect and mediated via service credits (money being a dominant form).

Within a Helper there is the important role of progress owner – a one stop accountability for marketing, innovation and execution of a proposition (if you’re familiar with Agile, this is a next level product owner)

Let’s look deeper at these actors!

  • 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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  • Externalities

    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

    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

    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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