Building an Unlimited Organisation

Recently, I was doing a live interview for a Podcast on a stage in front of 150+ people. That was quite an intense experience, and time went really fast as it does when you are ‘in the zone’. But there were two things I regretted not having included: the first thing is how hard and challenging it actually is to start up a company. It is not just a walk in the park, and I completely forgot to share the honest story about what it feels like being in a Rollercoaster on Warp Speed, with disappointments, successes, patience and stamina. And how to keep the team motivated while staying focused on the vision.

The second thing I wanted to share is how we are doing on our mission to build an Unlimited Organisation:

Some years ago, I was reading an inspiring book that made me want to test a new way of working. The book UNBOSS is written by the seasoned business leader Lars Kolind and the self-built disrupter Jacob Bøtter, and the feeling I got when I read the book was “Yes! Finally someone who agrees with my thoughts on efficient organisations and leadership!”. The Core of the UNBOSS view of the Unlimited Organisation is described below.

Working in the quite conservative oil industry, it would be a challenge to test the theories, so when I was losing my regular job and started up ExploCrowd, a new world of possibilities laid open.

EXPERIMENTING

Hence, we wanted to challenge the traditional paradigm “Knowledge is power” and chase the idea that by seeing each other as business partners rather than competitors and share knowledge, we could exponentially increase the knowledge base and thereby value creation within and between our companies. According to the authors of UNBOSS; when the average amount of relations in an organisation is increased by 20% the value creation in the organisation is increased by 40%. Adding a new strategic collaboration partner adds new competence and new business opportunities to all of us.

So we started out on a quest with a vision to build an efficient science and technology based unlimited organisation, with a network structure and underpinned by modern collaboration technology.

And we have come far: we have now accomplished creating a team of people and companies that cover expertise that reach far beyond what is the usual set of skills of competencies that are usually found in an exploration team. By working together and integrate our interdisciplinary knowledge, we can reach much further, and faster.

BENEFITS

The obvious advantage to clients with too little time is that we have had time to integrate our work, think and come up with new ideas. Through efficiently transferring this knowledge to clients, we and our collaboration partners enable clients to move faster and set their ambitions higher.

But what is the motivation for people and companies to join forces in an Unlimited Organisation?

Access to new data, competence, and opportunities to test theories, validate them and develop new products and ways of working for the industry are just a few. Helping each other, sharing strategic information and open new doors for each other is another. By working together in a flexible network, and through our shared passion for science, we are able to reach further.

Could this be The Future of Work? The future of business?

Feel free to share your thoughts and ideas on this. I’d be happy to enter a dialogue about positive and negative sides of the Unlimited Organisation. We are all ears.