White Paper By Noah Thorp
We are in the midst of a techno-cultural trend that re-envisions ownership, protocols of trust, organizational decision making, and ecosystems of work. This zeitgeist can broadly be called decentralized collaboration.
In the United States, organizations are atomizing into flexible services and autonomous, purpose-driven small businesses. Deloitte reports the ecosystems of value creation that are emerging create both competitive and collaborative advantage. Several forces are driving this change.
Freelance work represents a significant driver. Today, freelancers and gig workers make up 34% of the US work force. In keeping with these trends, Intuit and MBO Partners optimistically predict that by 2020 freelancers will represent 43-50% of the work force. Although these numbers may be inflated, there is strong evidenc