OSE Enterprise Strategy

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March 11, 2021

Priorities:

  • Apprenticeship of 12 plus Adjunct Professor of Architecture. $12k/yr. Class mixer, so accepting tech school track in there as well. $144k revenue, see Critical Path - March 2021.

March 2019

From the first decade of OSE development, it emerges that the next phase and second decade needs to be enterprise development and community building. A revenue model on the scale of a $1-$30M annual budget is required to manage the several aspects of the project. Twelve dozen full time staff, and a head for each country of interest, are required to provide continuity to each area of interest.

A community building strategy requires staff continuity. This is intended to be achieved through core-work, bootstrapped funding as a means of continuing validation that OSE programs are serving real needs and avoiding bureaucracy. Enterprise automation should be applied as much as possible. Cross-subsidization is acceptable, but not ideal.

Building enterprise provides financial feedback loops.

Organization Ecology

There are several functions:

  • R&D
  • Education - part of building open culture and development capacity
  • Livelihood creation (enterprise)
  • Training - of people for leadership in OSE

Priorities in the first decade of OSE were R&D. Phase 1 proof of concept has been achieved - proof of concept of industrial productivity on a small scale.

Phase 2 is based on learnings of Phase 1:

  1. It takes tremendous dedicated effort to take a proof of concept to market
  2. Technically, thriving is possible, and should be achieved at 2 hours of work per day as suggested in the Open Source Philosophy.
  3. Continuity is achievable via full time involvement (jobs)
  4. Bootstrapped work is the greatest proof of concept for relevance of enterprise
  5. Distributed approach needs to be kept throughout
  6. Physical facilities are the real manifestation of work
  7. Physical facilities serve local communities first

The OSE Campus: Seed of Self-Determination and the Next Economy

Read The Unplugged

The OSE Campus is the route to a high level of autonomy in enterprise operations. It achieves the goals of:

  1. Regenerative livelihood
  2. Lifelong learning
  3. Industrial productivity on a small scale
  4. Distributed operation
  5. Relocalization
  6. Environmental regeneration
  7. Personal development opportunity towards self-determination
  8. Debt-free lifestyle

Revenue Generation and Allocation Suggestions

  • Core promise - of lifetime-design, eco-friendly industrial machines at 1/3 the cost of industry standards.
  • There can be many revenue streams, but this one should remain central in order to guarantee growth potential for a long future
  • 50% of True Fans money funds design challenges.
  • Building our community is building our customer base
  • We build community by building the community's capacity to be productive
  • This means we provide kits for education, discovery, learning, producing