BizBigPic™ — a course providing young learners with a unified 'business big picture' understanding to power their future — aims to do just that. Evolving from its latest derivations as Cristian Mitreanu's recent Stanford Continuing Studies courses BUS 93 Corporate Strategy at Scale: Emerging Thinking on How Companies and Economies Evolve and BUS 284 Create Better Product Stories Using Deep Customer Insights, "the business big picture course" is currently in development and will be available soon.

Ofmos Universe provides the Big Picture foundational layer for a more accessible and meaningful business education, also shining new light on some popular ideas. In spirit of Richard Feynman's “every theoretical physicist that's any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics," let's zoom in on the concept of disruptive innovation.

Highlighting the blog posts The 3D Product Model Canvas: Thinking and Strategizing in Volumes, Software Products and the Concept of Platform, and A Need-Based Perspective on Increasing Returns. Also announcing Cristian Mitreanu’s new Stanford Continuing Studies course Create Better Product Stories Using Deep Customer Insights.

By explaining companies and economies as complex systems of unique business worlds called ofmos (offering-market cosmos), we provide a language of the big picture. With that, the simulation game OFMOS offers an "orrery of business" that could significantly impact learning, just like the actual orreries did.

What do you get if you throw a chess set, Monopoly, and a corporate strategy book into a blender? Why, Ofmos, of course. ;-) ... But forget about all that business stuff. On a hot summer day, Ofmos can be a lot of fun — an abstract strategy game with simple rules and interesting emerging complications.

We strive for deeper insights into how companies and economies work so that we can more meaningfully act upon them. The Ofmos lens — seeing companies and economies as complex systems of irreducible virtual business worlds called ofmos (offering-market cosmos) — gives us a better understanding at scale, where the information that matters most is.

University of Southern California Center EDGE (Center for Engagement-Driven Global Education), Andrew Nikou Foundation, and IDEO asks: How might we strengthen school communities, as sites reopen, by highlighting solutions that reconnect people and enhance collective wellbeing, teaching, and learning? And our answer is... Ofmos: Play, Learn, and Succeed with the Business Big Picture Game.

Championed by strategy consultancies like BCG and McKinsey, portfolio analysis became the corporate strategy approach of choice in the seventies. Now, decades later, with significant advances in big data and AI (and a new mindset), we will be increasingly able to understand and manage companies and economies as complex systems.

The overarching need successful existence is constantly being (dis)aggregated by the intelligent mind. As needs drive actions, this novel way of understanding the triggers of human behavior brings valuable new insights and applications to the table — whether one is trying to articulate a customer job-to-be-done…

The Ofmos model makes business learning (a) more meaningful by providing a knowledge umbrella, and (b) more accessible by providing a learning scaffolding. Yet its usefulness goes deeper, when we consider what P.W. Anderson called "broken symmetry"…

The movie Tenet has recently brought into the spotlight the idea of entropy and the arrow of time. Given that the Ofmos worldview and the set of theories that comes with it sees companies and economies as systems of ofmos (offering-market cosmos) — much like a physical system of particles — it seems only natural and timely to think about this concept in a business context.

And that is key here. The knowledge that we are using, as shapers of our society, has never really caught up with the reality. And the ongoing unraveling of the MBA, as the pinnacle of business education, puts the spotlight on the problem's core.

109-year-old 'Big Blue' announced on October 8th that it will spin-off its managed infrastructure services toward the end of 2021. Arvind Krishna, IBM CEO, said, "With tighter integration and focus on its open hybrid cloud and AI solutions, IBM will move from a company with more than half of its revenues in services to one with a majority in high-value cloud software and solutions. IBM will also have more than 50% of its portfolio in recurring revenues." What Is Your Take? Is this the end of IBM? Build a simple case for Why or Why Not with Ofmos.

As collections of ofmos (offering-market cosmos), which are virtual business spaces defined by a product and a set of customers with the same behavior relative to that product, economies can be analyzed over very long periods of time. Under the heavy influence of the force of Commoditization, they have a natural tendency to "bunch up," changing the very fabric of the society.

Companies die younger, and the product life cycles are growing shorter. In the age of big data and automation, the secret of long-term success lies not in how well you optimize a black box, but in how you simultaneously juggle multiple black boxes. Make your big picture bigger by seeing the firm as a collection of ofmos (offering-market cosmos) — a complex system with emergent behaviors!

A.I. learns Go by first watching previously-played games. Lots of them. With economies, however, the first few “games” are still being played and the rules are not as clear. So the system needs a model. The Ofmos theory views an economy as a complex system with emergent behaviors, providing the basic framework for an Intelligent Economy Manager suited for the age of big data. Explore the possibilities with the functionality described below, and then start playing and experimenting with the simplest simulation Ofmos Classic.

With 2020 around the corner, the picture book Spointra and the Secret of Business Success (The Aged Edition) proposes a new way of looking at human behavior, businesses, and economies. A holistic perspective on the world around us that will lead to more new ideas. Be inspired! Happy New Year!

The idea of a big, autonomous A.I. (one that can think for itself) has been a hot topic over the past year. Yet, how close we are to developing such a system remains unclear. As with most technologies, goal setting is a key dimension. And here, the new theory brings some new insights, while also uncovering some challenges. As explained in the paper, the human needs (goals) are rather elusive, and only at the market level they appear more stable.

With the pledges currently amounting to 21% of the goal, the chances of getting the project funded at this time are low (Kickstarter is a all-or-nothing platform). Nevertheless, the past few weeks have provided valuable lessons. New scenario explorations that illustrate what can be done have been developed (see below; images used for illustrative purposes only), and the instructions documents have been further refined.

What do you get if you throw Chess, Monopoly, and a business book into a blender? :) Here comes OFMOS... a strategy game and business simulation that makes business learning more meaningful and more accessible. Well suited for families with teens, OFMOS brings significant value to the table (literally) in schools and corporate academies as well.