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.
Sensing into Hypha
- 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?
Delineating boundaries
| Inside of Hypha Boundary | Outside of Hypha Boundary |
| Core Product Development (roadmap) | Product Adoption & Exaptation (users) |
| Core Product Positioning (audience) | Product Deployment & Delivery (accelerators) |
| Core Product Promotion (brand) | Product Customization & Contractual Work (clients) |
Strengthening core functions
| Human Relations && Human Heartbeat |
| Communication && Design |
| Finance && Accounting |
| Legal & Compliance (advisory) |
Strengthening core apps
| LW (transact && transfer) |
| ID/PP (identity && access && widgets) |
| DHO (coordinate && reward) |
| PTM & SWAP (trade && exchange) |
Strengthening partnerships
| Seeds Adoption Hubs > bioregions, academies, explorers, think tanks |
| Organization Hubs > organization starter kits |
| Global & Bioregional Village Hubs > village platforms |
| Marketplace Hubs > marketplace starter kits |
Prioritize
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