Hypha Reorganization Program
Metamorphosis by Philip Glass depicting and sonifying the changes Hypha is going through..
Purpose
The goal of this document is to start a dialogue to clarify the boundaries for Hypha and provide a much needed framework to focus and prioritize our work in the future. Hypha is currently facing increasing internal tensions due to a missing framework and inability to move the organization forward in a coherent way. As a result, there are too many conflicts that remain unresolved and too many opportunities that cannot be followed through. The outcome of the program is to further reduce coordination costs at Hypha by improving how we work, how we govern, how we pay, and how we transact through the lens of regeneration and decentralization.
Approach
The idea to reorganize Hypha to reduce complexity, strengthen cohesion and provide a true north for everyone to move towards a more effective organization that is not pulled into many directions and is able to focus on product development, knowing where it is going. This can be done through a process of disentanglement (strip out any custom elements), prioritization (decide what comes first), and rebuilding (activate a new strategy).
- Disentangle
- Prioritize
- Rebuild
Disentangle
To frame the conversation, we start with a set of leading questions to help everyone focus on the important parts of the program. These questions are best discussed in a real-time session with key stakeholders of the organization, and each stage can have one or more sessions before moving on to the next stage.
Ask questions
- Where is our energy? our motivation to drive change? make an impact?
- Where is our boundary? our capacity limit? our level of execution?
- Where is our next destination? our expertise to go there? our next local maximum?
- What are our engines? our core products? our drivers?
- What is our relationship to Seeds - the currency, the movement?
- What is it that only we can do and few others can?
Delineate boundaries
| Inside of Hypha Boundary | Outside of Hypha Boundary |
| Core Product Development (roadmap) | Product Adoption (users) |
| Core Product Positioning (audience) | Product Deployment & Delivery (resellers) |
| Core Product Promotion (brand) | Product Customization & Contractual Work (clients) |
Strengthen functions
| Human Relations && Human Heartbeat |
| Communication && Design |
| Finance && Accounting |
| Legal & Compliance (advisory) |
Prioritize
After we have clarified which structural elements are critical for Hypha, and which element we can potentially externalize, we can move towards a strategy development program.
Core (genesis apps)
- LW (transact && transfer)
- ID/PP (identity && access && widgets)
- DHO (coordinate && reward)
- PTM & SWAP (trade && exchange)
Extensions (first wave)
- DHO Seeds Adoption Hubs > bioregions, academies, explorers, think tanks
- DHO Organization Hubs > organization starter kits
- DHO Global & Bioregional Village Hubs > village platforms
- DHO Marketplace Hubs > marketplace starter kits
Assumptions
- Hypha is paying for core Hypha work only
- Hypha is incubating first wave extensions
- Hypha is focusing on product development && revenue generation
- Seeds is contracting Hypha for work (branding, consulting, developing, etc)
Re-build
This stage is concerned with the implementation and execution of the actual strategy and execution for the organization. It works towards concrete steps to get the work done outlined in previous stages.
Primary strategic elements
- Strategy Roundtable
- Boundaries for core apps and extensions
- Revenue models for core apps
Secondary strategic elements
- Branding & communication strategy
- Banking and incorporation (Vast Bank & Wyoming DAO)
- Hypha Archetypes (adjusted for new structure)
- Legacy frame: Development - Research - HR - Sales - Marketing
- Hypha product metrics (focused on revenue)
Hypha Strategy Map
Hypha Strategy Activation
Background
DAO Landscape
PrimeDAO Case
- https://primedao.eth.link/ (current site)
- https://primedao.webflow.io/ (future site)
- https://medium.com/primedao/its-time-for-dao-to-dao-coordination-8791ec78545f (DAO-to-DAO coordination, the only DAO thinking about it afaik)
- https://app.pitch.com/app/public/player/05cff6fb-639c-4e24-8497-72e288fc60db (pitchdeck)
- https://alchemy.daostack.io/dao/0x273d0f686a53a49a0fba2a801566b19f9aaf8fcd/scheme/0x4b919ee74b777d004a60f4f99d0b4333299aeafbb89e6a2bd004ea81aa10b825 (PrimeDAO on DAOStack)
- Value Transfer: Producer > Consumer > Producer > Consumer < Decomposers (Trophic Chains)
- Value Creation: info ecology, autopoietic platforms, regen finance models
- Value Exchange: revenue generation, pricing strategy, economic growth