By Arik Ben-Zvi and Steve Weber A shortened version of this piece was originally published in Noema Magazine. When Karl Polanyi wrote The Great Transformation in 1944 he could have hardly imagined that — nearly 80 years later — the story of Web 3 would repeat nearly verbatim the narrative of state-society-market interdependence that he […]
By Steve Weber and Jim Wyderko Over one Exabyte. That’s how much data is now stored globally on the cloud. That’s over 1 billion Gigabytes – for reference, in 2003, technologists at UC Berkeley estimated the total words spoken by humans since the dawn of time to be 5 Exabytes. These quintillion bytes of data […]
Introduction In our earlier blog post on the development of SAM (Stakeholder Analytics Model) we described some of the thorniest contemporary challenges of developing expert insights around complex policy issues to systematize predictive foresight. With the signal to noise ratio as low as it often seems to be, and the channels for public discourse and influence continuing […]
Breakwater Strategy is developing a structured formal model for stakeholder analytics, which we call SAM (Stakeholder Analytics Model). SAM is designed to help bring together expert insights around complex policy issues and systematize the process of generating ‘predictive foresight’. The goal is to inform strategic conversation and add rigor to decisions aimed at “moving the […]
By Arik Ben-Zvi, CEO and President Two weeks ago, my colleague and mentor Steve Weber of UC Berkeley and I published this paper, in which we used Scenario Thinking techniques to imagine how the coming months might play out for the country. In it, we imagined four very distinct futures for America: 1) The Invisible Enemy […]
Back in March, just as many of us on the East Coast were beginning to socially distance for “a few weeks,” we wrote about how companies will need to show up for consumers and communities and looked into actions they were taking in response to the escalating pandemic. Now, just over a month later, as […]