1. FROM STRATEGY TO TOTAL REDESIGN
A Presentation to the MAV Future Of Local Government
Commission of Enquiry
May 2014
Michael McAllum,
© 2014 GLOBAL FORESIGHT NETWORK PTY LTD

2. LIMITS + SYSTEMIC COMPLEXITY + ADVERSITY
= A BLACK HOLE of HIGH TRANSACTION COSTS
Local Government is a complex mix of different systems each with completely different narratives.
Blue : Rules for predetermined outcomes
Planning / Engineering / Finance
Red : Heroes, Competition, Winning.
Politics / Markets / Policy Battles
Green: Inclusiveness, Community, Sustainability
Spaces / Places/ Environment / Arts
A strong gravitational pull from which there is no escape if too close
Consumes all that is good and bad
No light escapes

3. WHAT PATH WILL LOCAL GOVERNMENT TAKE?2

4. ESCAPE FROM THE MACHINE
Creation of a different narrative
Plan and design through a different lens
Engage with the Community in new ways
Recognise that form and shape is changing AND
Do so on the basis that all the technologies and case studies to vastly lower transaction costs are already here.
A strong gravitational pull from which there is no escape if too close
Consumes all that is good and bad
No light escapes

5. A REVOLUTION IN THE MAKING
1st Industrial Rev.
Circa 1800
Factory cities
Steam
Printing
2nd Industrial Rev.
Circa 1900
Suburban cities
Oil & electricity
Telephony & Film
Networked Rev
2005……..
Interconnected village ecologies
Renewables
Social networking
technologies

6. THE NETWORKED WORLD IS A WAY OF THINKING
BEYOND TECHNOLOGY:
THE NETWORKED WORLD IS A WAY OF THINKING
Shift from centralised efficiency based systems to distributed networks
Organisation form changes
Rapid move from supply side to demand driven thinking and consumption
Advantage moves from head to head competition to collaboration
Rapid growth in new business models that use far fewer resources to create value.

7. A FUTURE WHERE ORGANISATIONS LOOK MORE LOOK ECOLOGIES THAN MACHINES
MODERN
Centralised
Mechanistic
Efficiency & performance focus
POST MODERN (CIRCA )
Decentralised
Digital
Specialisation/ Outsource focus
NETWORK CENTRIC
Distributed
Networked
Ecological/connectivity focus

8. THE NETWORKED WORLD IS A WAY OF THINKING
BEYOND TECHNOLOGY:
THE NETWORKED WORLD IS A WAY OF THINKING
Shift from centralised efficiency based systems to distributed networks
Organisation form changes
Rapid move from supply side to demand driven thinking and consumption
Advantage moves from head to head competition to collaboration
Rapid growth in new business models that use far fewer resources to create value.

9. RETHINKING BLUE IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS
Network and spatial technologies will drive:
Joined up ecologies of services
A rapid shift to cloud based systems
Place based treasury
A demand for 21st century infrastructures ( renewables at point of demand, local energy storage, mesh technologies, intelligent roads)
A focus on economies of scope not scale (because transaction costs are near zero)
Planning
Infrastructure
Finance
Services
A strong gravitational pull from which there is no escape if too close
Consumes all that is good and bad
No light escapes
“The internet of things is the first smart infrastructure in history that will connect every machine, business, resident and vehicle in an intelligent communications, energy and logistics network.”

10. RETHINKING RED ON THE COLLABORATIVE COMMONS
Interconnectivity and mobility reframes everything.
Collaboration in the new form of competition
The idea of work will require the development of many local markets (3D printing / remote work /the Hub)
Access will be valued more than ownership
Everything will need to be redesigned from a demand driven NOT a supply push perspective
Crowd sourcing and crowd funding will be the norm
Collaboration
Engagement
Markets
Crowd
A strong gravitational pull from which there is no escape if too close
Consumes all that is good and bad
No light escapes
“The machine age was dominated by contractual thinking and relationships.
The Distributed Age will be dominated by interpersonal relationships.”

11. RETHINKING GREEN IN A DISTRIBUTED WORLD
Machine thinking (efficiency) gives way to ecological systems (optimisation)
Built form will reflect a rapid evolution into multi use ecologies
People will prefer EXPERIENCES not TRANSACTIONS
A DIVERSITY of informal real and virtual 3rd spaces will be frame the sense of community
Institutions will be rethought
Distributed and networked allows the use of far fewer resources to create more
Built form
Belonging
More with less
Expression
A strong gravitational pull from which there is no escape if too close
Consumes all that is good and bad
No light escapes
“In a future where the over use of resources in not an option, we will discover that the arts, the celebration of culture, festivals and togetherness are what will define meaning and success not money.”

12. BEYOND THE BLACK HOLE: THE AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE
1. NETWORKED
INTELLIGENCE
2. A FUTURE
STORY
3. DEEP
DESIGN
4. NAVIGATION &
VALUE CURATION
5. IDENTITY
RESONANCE

13. DESIGNING BETTER FUTURES
We need to move beyond the noise and the blame,
We must find new frameworks for conversation,
In order to create new narratives that are inclusive and allow all to contribute
So that we can transcend where we are now.
For to do otherwise is to contemplate scenarios that are nightmarish if they were to come to pass.