The world is changing exponentially due to technology, Singularity and globalization. We see the emergence of a new kind of organization: the exponential organization. This is complete reinvention of all building blocks of a classic, linear organization. Why is it here today? Why is it so successful? What is it? How does it organize to scale? How will exponential organizations evolve into blockchain startups (DAOs)? Learn practical insights from not only startups like Slack, Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Waze, Local Motors, Quirky, Github and Tesla but also large organizations like Google, Amazon, Haier and General Electric. If your organization was built in the 20th century it is doomed to fail in the 21st century. Why? Nobody uses s a mobile phone of 15 years old to survive in todays' business world but we do use organizational models which are 100 years old in todays' exponential era. This does not make sense and explains disruption in each and every vertical market. *talk at NEXT15*

1. Yuri van Geest
- Author of Exponential Organizations
- Dutch Ambassador of SU
- Initiator of SingularityU Netherlands

5. 109+
How will you positively impact
1 billion people in the next decade?

6. Made in Space

7. Accelerating
Technologies
Al
Robotics
Biotech
Nanotech
Medicine
Neuroscience
Energy
Computing

8. Hyperspectral Imaging
Apple & Foxconn - Apple plans to bring hyperspectral imaging to the new
Apple Watch. Enables: cancer detection, retinal imaging, blood flow & oxygen
levels, food composition insights (to enable food safety)

9. Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) + Technology
PNI is the study of the interaction
between psychological processes
and the nervous and immune
systems of the human body

11. Da Vinci Surgical Robot
Stitching the skin back onto a grape
inside a bottle, with the FDA-approved
Single-Site Wristed Needle Driver

12. MIT's Mediated Matter Group - Glass 3D Printing

13. Facebook’s internet.org - Internet Access Globally
Others:
- Google’s Project Loon
(with Titan Aerospace) -
Drones & Balloons
- Virgin Galactic's
LauncherOne - Satellites
- SpaceX - Satellites

14. Exponential Technologies
Declining Costs
Increasing
Capabilities

15. “The average half life of a
business competency has
dropped from 30 years in
1984 to 5 years today.”

16. “89% of the Fortune 500
companies from 1955 are
not on the list today.”

17. “In the next 10 years
40% of all S&P 500
companies will
disappear from this list”

18. Market Cap to a Billion

19. Why are there ExOs?

20. Linear > Exponential

21. Scarcity > Abundance

22. Time to scale the organization
Source: McKinsey 7S model

23. What are ExOs?

24. An Exponential Organization (ExO) is one whose
impact (or output) is disproportionally large — at
least 10x larger — compared to its peers because
of the use of new organizational techniques that
leverage exponential technologies.
Definition

25. Software is eating the
world, in all sectors
In the future every
company will become a
software companyMarc Andreessen
founder of Netscape,
renowned Venture Capitalist
Andreessen-Horowitz

26. ExOs: Everything will become digital
• social, mobile & online for
front-end functions
• nanotech, robotics, 3D
printing, sensors, AI
• crowdsourcing (leveraging
the crowd), DIY*, P2P**,
crowd companies, AI,
Nanofactories
•
*Do-It-Yourself: Movement of people who create things without the help of experts or professionals
•**:Peer-to-Peer: a decentralized network leveraging direct interactions between people

27. Attributes

28. Linear vs Exponential
Strategy based on
extrapolation from past
(5-year operational plans)
Strategy based on MTP,
pivots and 1 year
operational plan

29. Linear vs Exponential
Process inflexibility and
risk intolerance
Flexibility and smart
failure celebration

30. Linear vs Exponential
Innovation from inside,
large number of FTEs
Innovation at the edges
and from outside sources

31. Examples of ExOs

32. ExO Score ExO Score
1 GitHub 76 11 Shapeways 72
2 Airbnb 74 12 Kiva.org 72
3 Uber 73 13 Etsy 72
4 Indiegogo 73 14 Cloudera 71
5 Google 73 15 Waze 71
6 Slack 72 16 Kickstarter 71
7 Kaggle 72 17 BlaBlaCar 71
8 Pinterest 72 18 Medium 71
9 Reddit 72 19 Valve 70
10 Tumblr 72 20 Wikimedia 70
Best ExOs
See the complete Top 100 at:
http://top100.exponentialorgs.com

33. MTP
Staff on Demand Interfaces
Community & Crowd Dashboards
Algorithms Experimentation
Leveraged Assets Autonomy
Engagement Social
GitHub - GitHub is an open source code and collaboration community with 10
million members, 21 million repositories and market cap of $10B. Key
differentiator: technical infrastructure of the internet as organizational design
Best ExOs

34. MTP
Staff on Demand Interfaces
Community & Crowd Dashboards
Algorithms Experimentation
Leveraged Assets Autonomy
Engagement Social
Xiaomi - Chinese smartphone company, focusing on performance, quality and
customer experience. Has a flat organization consisting of 5.000 employees
and leverages a Community of 100 million fans for product ideation & iteration.
Best ExOs

35. Performance Improvement
Local Motors
Traditional Car
Manufacturers
100x cheaper & 5-22x faster production

36. MTP
Staff on Demand Interfaces
Community & Crowd Dashboards
Algorithms Experimentation
Leveraged Assets Autonomy
Engagement Social
Haier - Chinese appliance maker with 80,000 employees organized in 2005 in
2,000 self-managed units with decision-making authority (Autonomy). Market
cap grew from $20B to $60B today in the last 3 years.
Corporate Example

37. How to create ExOs?

38. Strategies for Corporates

39. Best Business Book of 2014 Award
by Frost & Sullivan
One of the all-time highest rated
business books on Amazon
(4,8 out of 5)
(Soon) available in 15 languages,
including all top 8 languages incl.
Chinese

40. Nominated for the Oscars of
Management Books: Thinkers50
Breakthrough Idea Award
Other nominees:

41. Yuri van Geest
Co-Author Exponential Organizations
+31 6 113 19 290 @vangeest
Yuri.vangeest@singularityu.org
www.exponentialorgs.com