Mesh and the end of the ownership economy

Cover of "The Mesh: Why the Future of Bus...
Cover via Amazon

Today you can still hear some managers, schooled in conventional thinking, claim the importance of “ownership” be it over people, projects or things in their employees and customers. How quaint. Today, with the penetration of the Internet and declining importance of hierarchical “superpowers”, access, one’s ability to collaborate, knowledge sharing and network connection is becoming far more important. Entrepreneur Lisa Gansky identifies companies that are forward thinking as Mesh companies who create, share and use social media, wireless networks, and data crunched from every available source to provide people with goods and services at the exact moment they need them, without the burden and expense of owning them outright.

Mesh – the pulse of the sharing economy

Leave a Reply