CEB Press Enterprise - Integrated Model

Introduction

OSE's enterprise model involves a triple revenue model: tuition for immersion education, sale of machine kits, and entrepreneurship training.

The rationale for this is our core mission: creating the open source economy by transitioning the human productive enterprise to a new paradigm of open source, distributed production as the new status quo.

These are high ideals, but our route is practical: Extreme Production. This means absolutely efficient production which competes with existing proprietary enterprise - and which may have a potential to dominate - upon reaching an accelerated rate of innovation via collaborative, open source development.

To put this into practice, absolute efficiency must be attained. This is favorable in open source development - which inherently drives for efficiency by eliminating all forms of competitive waste such as protectionism, proprietary R&D, monopoly, nontransparent communication, centralization, legal complexity, and bureaucracy.

For a chance to scale - we propose that the efficient, open source enterprise operates as:

• A flexible fabrication enterprise- non-specialized fabrication facility that can produce just about anything
• Vertically-integrated enterprise - which brings as much of the supply chain in-house as possible, while making operations simple as an open, learning organization which pursues best practice by building on and contributing to open source enterprise models
• A lean organization - involves open enterprise documentation for easy on-boarding, well-established though agile operating proceudures that allow for a simple operating model - to minimize bureaucracy, maximize team size, and work as an ecosystem of small, independent players

Model integrating production, education, and enterprise training. Focus is on education, production and enterprise training are part of the education. Forum is used for support.