I share this outlined design frame here, clearly to advance Business Ecosystems and provide a framework that enables individuals, groups and (multiple) organizations to begin to organize their conversations into the building blocks to explain and build Ecosystem conversations.

Business ecosystems are complex and often chase down challenges that potentially offer levels of uniqueness and significant improvement on what is existing or known as the existing solutions within the market place but are highly complex in their nature.

In my recent post I provided an initial Ecosystem Business Model frame to introduce and build out a common language and then took that into nine building blocks to get to the point of validating the thinking behind this emerging concept to decide in a further evaluation in a structured way

Providing the full Ecosystem Business Model is the next step

I want to “push beyond” the introduction to the Ecosystem Business Model in my initial post “Breaking down complexity, introducing the Ecosystem Business model frame“.

This post here is diving a little deeper in providing the full model and its building blocks. These are broken down into three parts of 1) the Strategic Ecosystem BM, 2) the Operational BM and 3) the Cross-cutting BM, that yields the unique value creation and synergistic effects

I do not intend to draw out the components within each of these building blocks as these are the elements that often would be unique and emerge through a fairly extensive “probe and explore” examination, ideally through a workshop or set of detailed sessions and those are part of my service offerings to those interested.

Recognition and Understanding

What is provided here allows a greater appreciation and initial acceptance of understanding of what needs to be built out in a robust evaluation of managing Business Ecosystems

First, the Strategic Ecosystem Business Model Building Blocks

Secondly the Operational Ecosystem Business Model Building Blocks

Thirdly, vital for recognition and real value return the Cross-cutting Ecosystem Business Model Building Blocks

Ecosystem evaluations offer significant framing value

The aim of these different building blocks broken down into Strategic, Operational and Cross-Cutting builds out the insights needed to grow in confidence that the considerations considered are going to provide a sound evaluation.

They can enhance strategic clarity, measure concepts and opportunities and “walk them through” the necessary make up, risk mitigation and operational needs to seek competitive differentials, the needed network resilience and barrier resolutions of the stakeholders involved or needed.

This enables the necessary insights for Ecosystem build ups in partner mapping, reconciliation and consolidation to build into a blueprint of governance, workflows and tasks/gaps/advantages and bringing these into the ecosystems common objectives.

Having a robust model avoids many expensive mistakes

Having a robust Ecosystem Business Model evaluation does give a framing around the idea concept to issues that arise and need early recognition.

We do need focal points and this is why I call them business blocks. They enable a growing integrated approach of the values of synergies, interdependencies and exponential values created when these three layers (strategy, operational and cross-cutting) combine and deliver the stronger foundations and recognition of understanding ecosystems, enable awareness creation, stakeholder engagement in having this assessment.

What this Ecosystem Business Model provides

This addressing of each part strengths the intent and understanding of what involved in pursuing ecosystem opportunities. It builds confidence and offers clarity and more importantly avoids costly mistakes of simply jumping in with no frame structure.

Lets talk if you are designing an Ecosystem for your business. I can facilitate and guide the needed conversations and analysis points.