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Think Big! The Education (Re)Open Challenge 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... READ AND PASS ON. Ofmos: Play, Learn, and Succeed with the Business Big Picture Game Ofmos Classic is the simplest tabletop game in the Ofmos family. 2 to 4 players (age 13 and older) are the CEOs of their respective 9-product companies. With 3 types of actions (Launch, Operate, Exit) and a bonus-generating event (Alignment), each CEO must maximize the return on an initial budget of $100 (millions). The highest amount of cash at the end of the game wins. Simple. Sit around the table and play. Start a tournament. Create a fun interactive foundation and a collaborative environment for your business learning. The game is based on a theoretical model that views companies and economies as collections of business worlds defined by a product and a set of customers with the same behavior associated with that product. Complementing the existing body of business and economic knowledge, this is a perspective that stems from the idea that the world around us can be understood through different lenses at different scales. For example, you can use the lens of physics to see yourself as a collection of atoms. Or, you can use the lens of biology to see yourself as a collection of cells. Also, you can simply see yourself as an individual entity, using the lenses of physiology and psychology. Same observed thing, different degrees of granularity, different lenses. Similarly, over long periods of time, you can understand and analyze companies and economies as collections of abstract business worlds called ofmos (short for offering-market cosmos). While these worlds obey by the principles of our conventional knowledge, the ofmos lens provides an easier way of explaining phenomena at scale. Simply put, Ofmos is the language of the big picture, and a broader context for most other business and economic learning. A single Ofmos game piece incorporates all key business concepts taught in the K-12 schools. Learn More & Spread the Word JOIN THE MOVEMENT! "Big Picture" of the Month "We are made of star-stuff," once said Carl Sagan. But that view might be too fine-grained to explain the behavior of companies and economies at larger scales. By seeing collections of indivisible abstract business worlds called ofmos (offering-market cosmos), we get a simple language of the big picture. BE OUR PARTNER. Stanford Continuing Studies Course Corporate Strategy at Scale: Emerging Thinking on How Companies and Economies Evolve Instructor: Cristian Mitreanu Dates: April 15 - June 3 Registration: Open One of the key leadership dimensions required in our increasingly dynamic business and economic environment is a sound understanding of the big picture. Shrinking product lifecycles and corporate lifespans make it essential for those in charge of bringing to market the innovations of tomorrow to widen and extend their horizons further into the future. This course introduces a novel way of understanding how businesses and economies, as complex systems of unique business spaces, evolve and interrelate over long periods of time. It is a holistic perspective that allows us to define and analyze emerging behaviors that cannot be determined simply by examining each system part in isolation. In this course, we will learn about (1) a new theory of needs and value; (2) commoditization and innovation as the two fundamental forces that shape the business and economic environment; (3) the foundation of lasting corporate success—an alignment between a company’s intent and its actual approach to business; and (4) an economy’s natural behavior and its impact on the society. We will discuss examples from such companies as Apple and IBM, and will review and reassess some established and popular theoretical concepts. The framework will provide those in product management or product marketing with a valuable new tool for positioning new products, motivating teams, and crafting successful strategies. Guest Speakers include: April 15: "Science Fiction as a Business Tool" - ROGER SPITZ, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Techistential April 22: "Understanding Needs in Emerging Markets" - SRINIVAS VENUGOPAL, Assistant Professor of Marketing at University of Vermont April 29: "Strategic Cartography: Mapping Tech Product Expansions" - KIT MERKER, Chief Operating Officer at Nobl9 May 6: "Market Segmentation as a Key Success Driver in a Fast-Changing World" - JENNIFER WHELAN, Vice President and Head of B2B Marketing at Verizon Media May 13: "Baking Product-Led Innovation into Company Culture and Strategy" - FLORIAN PESTONI, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at InOrbit, Inc. May 20: "Complexity Trade-Offs in Companies and Economies" - ALEXANDER SIEGENFELD, Graduate Student Researcher at New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) and MIT Media Lab May 27: Title to be Determined - ANDREW KVAAL, Chief Operating Officer at Ampion, Inc. 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