Accelerated Global Innovation, Leadership, and ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AGILE Ecosystems Overview
Not to be confused with the popular Agile software and general problem solving rubric, AGILE is an acronym that stands for "Accelerated Global Innovation, Leadership and Entrepreneurship." AGILE Ecosystems Methodology is a powerful approach to systematically identify, deconstruct, analyze and develop holistic solutions to complex economic, social and environmental problems. The popular Agile (software) Methodology based on the SCRUM framework is also an effective methodology for approaching complex problems, but AGILE Ecosystems methodology goes one critical step further and provides a formal model to organize and implement solutions as sustainable ecosystems.
The power of the AGILE Ecosystems Methodology is the ability to model human systems after robust ecosystems in nature systematically and mathematically. AGILE Methodology provides a new approach to integrating the objective, and subjective dimensions of any complex socio-economic ecosystem by aligning it with universal archetypes in nature.
An “archetype” is a fixed pattern or form that can be used to model a specific set of behaviors or attributes. Archetypes are found everywhere in nature. AGILE is based on three Grand Archetypes: 1) Differentiation, 2) Integration and 3) Projection. These archetypes capture the underlying dynamics of mathematical processes in nature to provide scalable and repeatable templates for the design, development, and optimization of efficient human ecosystems.
AGILE Ecosystems Methodology can be used to solve complex socio-economic problems.
KEY agile ECOSYSTEM PRINCIPLES
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
An Ecosystem is a formal collection of Entities, organized into a Network of Precise Relationships leading to Survival & Growth.
What is an ASSET?
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
An ASSET is anything that has inherent value to the Ecosystem, but does not diminish with use. Assets can be animate OR inanimate.
What is a Resource?
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
What is a Resource?
A RESOURCE is anything that can be consumed by the Ecosystem Constituents or output to other Ecosystems including the Environment.
What is Context?
What is L.O.V.E.?
What is a Resource?
CONTEXT is the Environment and Application in which an Asset is valuable to the Ecosystem, its Asset Owners, Producers and Consumers.
What is Capital?
What is L.O.V.E.?
What is L.O.V.E.?
CAPITAL is an asset or integrated group of assets and resources that can be used to Generate Resources within a specific Context.
What is L.O.V.E.?
What is L.O.V.E.?
What is L.O.V.E.?
Lifting Others Validates Everyone (L.O.V.E.) provides a working definition of the Mindset and Force behind all successful ecosystems.
ECOSYSTEMS ARE GOVERNED BY THREE (3) GRAND ARCHETYPES
What is DIFFERENTIATION?
What is DIFFERENTIATION?
What is DIFFERENTIATION?
DIFFERENTIATION is the GRAND ARCHETYPE governing the Identity of individual Assets or Entities present within an Ecosystem.
What is INTEGRATION?
What is DIFFERENTIATION?
What is DIFFERENTIATION?
INTEGRATION is the Grand Archetype connecting the Identity of Assets in one Ecosystem to that of an Adjacent Ecosystem.
What is PROJECTION?
What is DIFFERENTIATION?
What is PROJECTION?
PROJECTION is the Grand Archetype that manifests the Integration of Assets from two Adjacent Ecosystems into a third Ecosystem.
SIX (6) Ecosystem PROCESS STAGES
CATALYSTS
INNOVATION
CATALYSTS
Every Ecosystem is Originated by a Singular Event or "DIFFERENTIATION" that impacts one or more Asset Owners, and defines its Purpose.
MARKETING
INNOVATION
CATALYSTS
Every Ecosystem includes a Marketing Stakeholder, who is a Sponsoring Ecosystem Stakeholder who Protects the Status Quo.
INNOVATION
INNOVATION
INNOVATION
Every Ecosystem includes an Innovation Stakeholder, who is a Sponsoring Ecosystem Stakeholder who Transcends the Status Quo.
CHANNELS
RESOURCES
INNOVATION
Every Ecosystem provides Translational Pathways for Integrated Marketing and Innovation Resource Outputs/Byproducts.
RESOURCES
RESOURCES
RESOURCES
Every Ecosystem Generates Holistic Outputs (and Byproducts) from the Integration of Marketing & Innovation Assets in Channels.
CAPITAL
RESOURCES
RESOURCES
Every Ecosystem Creates New Capital to Protect Resource Generation Capacity when it's Nutrient Source or Key Assets are unavailable/damaged.
Key AGILE Ecosystem Framework Progressions
TYPE I: Original Ecosystem Identification
TYPE I: Original Ecosystem Identification
TYPE I: Original Ecosystem Identification
The TYPE I Frameworks was used to identify the key archetypes, process elements, byproducts and outputs of an AGILE Ecosystem.
TYPE II: Ecosystem Process Analysis
TYPE I: Original Ecosystem Identification
TYPE I: Original Ecosystem Identification
The TYPE II Framework was used to analyze and explore the more detailed interactions of ecosystem elements and processes.
TYPE IV: Ecosystem Process Development
TYPE VII: Ecosystem Stakeholder Identification
TYPE VII: Ecosystem Stakeholder Identification
The TYPE IV Framework recognized and mapped the impact of the six stages of an ecosystem to track it's interim and completd States.
TYPE VII: Ecosystem Stakeholder Identification
TYPE VII: Ecosystem Stakeholder Identification
TYPE VII: Ecosystem Stakeholder Identification
It is easy to view an ecosystem in isolation, but any ecosystem beginswith identification of it's Stakeholders who are typically "unseen."
SAMPLE AGILE VENTURE FRAMEWORK
AGILE methodology incorporates a system of frameworks that organize the three archetypes into a specific pattern of relationships that collectively transform the environment of a given ecosystem. Thus, AGILE methodology can be used to support the growth, cultivation, preservation, and protection of natural and human ecosystems, to foster robust solutions to the world’s most challenging problems.
AGILE Methodology also facilitates understanding and interacting with natural ecosystems like the human metabolic system. However, understanding the interaction of the archetypes and the frameworks enables one to create compelling human ecosystems that holistically integrate human needs with the abundance, resilience, and diversity of nature. With AGILE, we can capture the wisdom of nature to create more robust human-made ecosystems such as socio-economic and value creation and exchange systems (i.e., businesses).
AGILE Supports Technological Innovation and Social Innovation
AGILE Ecosystems Methodology provides a systematic approach to identifying opportunities and holistic solutions for Social Innovation. Social Innovation is the process of mapping and understanding the "status quo" of any social environment, and then developing Social, or "Innovation Assets" that can systematically, and sustainably transcend the status quo to realize transformational change in any Ecosystem.