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Beta Building: A Trend of Amplified Organization

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Beta Building
Transparency, collaboration, and rapid iteration create a beta culture displaying open critique and reflective practice. In a world of transparency and open contribution, collective creation and critique, and rapid iteration, beta status (a stage of testing and refinement) is a norm. But in this world, beta is fully functional, just open to improvement. Beta building reflects both a mindset that any product or process can be improved, and the platforms that encourage input and enable revision. Organizations engaging in beta building must be comfortable with open authorship—making things transparent even when ‘incomplete’—and participating in a community of contribution.

Ways to Start Taking Action
  1. Focus on fostering imagination, creativity, thoughtfulness, and collaboration over providing training on specific technologies that will soon be outmoded
  2. Be a citizen journalist by contributing to NowPublic
  3. Create an internal wiki to collaborate within your organization with one of the tools listed at WikiMatrix
  4. Announce real-time organizational updates to the public using Twitter or within your organization using Yammer
  5. Adopt iterative design principles throughout your organization

 

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