OSE Enterprise Strategy
Contents
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:
- It takes tremendous dedicated effort to take a proof of concept to market
- Technically, thriving is possible, and should be achieved at 2 hours of work per day as suggested in the Open Source Philosophy.
- Continuity is achievable via full time involvement (jobs)
- Bootstrapped work is the greatest proof of concept for relevance of enterprise
- Distributed approach needs to be kept throughout
- Physical facilities are the real manifestation of work
- 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:
- Regenerative livelihood
- Lifelong learning
- Industrial productivity on a small scale
- Distributed operation
- Relocalization
- Environmental regeneration
- Personal development opportunity towards self-determination
- 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
