Globlogization joins the Wikistrat universe; I join the Wikistrat effort
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 3:00PM
Basically, instead of my folding up shop here at Squarespace and starting anew at Wikistrat, we decided that Wikistrat will sort of infiltrate this site over time, sucking it into their orbit. So the Wikistrat crew will manage the site going forward, and I'll focus my creative energies on: That's the basic outline, with more details to come in future posts. I had to skip out of Dodge this a.m. to fly to Monterey CA to deliver a Secretary of the Navy-series lecture out at the Naval Postgraduate School there Tuesday afternoon, so I wanted to keep this short because [. . . looking at his watch] Favre is playing the Packers in about an hour [he typed and then scheduled the blog post for next day]. INSERT PRAYER HERE Later this week, I want to write a more formal introduction to Wikistrat, the technology start-up out of that start-up nation--Israel. Wikistrat represents my fifth start-up small firm, two of which I started myself (selling one and keeping the other to this day) and two others now being matured entities (Enterra being my pride and joy). Now Wikistrat joins that line, primarily capturing my nights and weekends for now, but hopefully providing a long-term outlet for my intellectual output in my original "IR" (international relations) realm. So consider the doctor re-engaged to his first love (maiden name, regional studies, now known as globalization).
We decided to make this move as painless as possible, making as few changes as necessary to get the ball rolling. And when I say we, I mean Joel Zamel, CEO of Wikistrat, Daniel Green, CTO, and myself.
Reader Comments (8)
Next year, when you start populating a globalization model driven by scenarios that utilize the "reproducible strategic concepts" (Core-Gap, Four Flows, Blogging the Future, Heroes Yet Discovered, SysAdmin-Leviathan, etc.) from your trilogy of books, how would a client (an interested audience) get sophisticated analysis that explores scenarios between two extremes, of their chosen interest ? For instance, what if there were a critical mass of people wanting expert facilitation of 3D and the geopolitical dynamics of present day Honduras and its American neighbors, Central, South, and North? What would it take to make that discussion real?
If the little outdoor lunch place near the Dudley Knox library on campus at NPS is seriving their curry chicken (or pork depending on the week), you should add it to the list of must eats.
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Dr. Barnett
Initial migration was painless from a consumer's point of view.
Best wishes
Comment from a Wikistrat related article:
'“horizontal effects” sound like “unintended consequences.”
Maybe Tom can use Wikistrat to explain to laymen the implications for many US policies and initiatives ... but would you then have to kill us?
Critt:
As clients become involved and we grow the system with collaborators across the globe, users will be able to either vote on different scenarios of interest, or directly inject "shocks" into the system (depending on their subscription plan).
If the critical mass of interested users is there, such a scenario would play out asynchronously between both the subscribers interested in brainstorming the scenario at hand, as well as Wikistrat's internal team of analysts. That scenario would then become part of the interlinking model, and grow overtime within Wikistrat's integrated network of evolving strategies, scenarios, background knowledge and other strategic movements (shifts, flows, trends, issues, etc)
Multiple scenarios (affecting different actors or their relationships) could also be independently conducted in parallel, referencing alternate pathways explored in each scenario. This would serve as an ongoing resource for policy planning or the analysis / risk management of potential vertical shocks.
I thought this article on Barnett Wikistrat relationship was very interesting.
Wikistrat for international development
June 25, 2010 Dave Algoso
http://findwhatworks.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/wikistrat-for-international-development/
Louis,
Horizontal versus vertical scenarios comes from my first book.
Verticals are sharp and fast and tend to reach down into systems. Horizontals are long and slow and tend to cross domains, so yes, unintended consequences more likely found there.
Simplest analogy: drop the pebble in the still pond (vertical), and resulting ripples (horizontal).
But sometimes the long and slow horizontals can be intended, but unnoticed by media and public.