AntsFrench col­lab­o­ra­tion expert, Thierry De Bail­lon and his col­leagues have been work­ing on a project enti­tled The Future of Col­lab­o­ra­tive Enter­prise, that, in their words is intended to be:

… a lab­o­ra­tory, an attempt to pave the path to a plau­si­ble future, by draft­ing action­able sce­nar­ios of what “social” orga­ni­za­tions might look like and oper­ate in five to ten years from now. Far from a defin­i­tive answer to every ques­tion busi­nesses ever asked, we aim at pro­vid­ing bread­crumbs, induc­ing reac­tions, and dis­si­pat­ing the smoke around orga­ni­za­tional innovation.

Thierry did me the honor of involv­ing me in his project as one of his 20 Thinkers; folk who have strong views on col­lab­o­ra­tive enter­prise and a great deal of expe­ri­ence work­ing in or envi­sion­ing what such an organ­i­sa­tion might look and behave like. I’m in illus­tri­ous com­pany, includ­ing peo­ple such as X-​​Plane/​Dachis Group’s Dave Gray, Rachel Happe from The Com­mu­nity Round­table, Paula Thorn­ton, Ray Wang of Con­stel­la­tion Research, Luis Suarez of IBM, John Hus­band from Wirearchy and fel­low Aus­tralian, Ross Daw­son.

The videos and tran­script of my con­ver­sa­tion with The Future of Col­lab­o­ra­tive Enter­prise are avail­able on the project’s site. I’ve embed­ded the 5-​​or-​​so min­utes of video extracted from our lengthy Skype call below. I hope you enjoy it.