Within my commercial model for client offerings, provided for Ecosystem building, thinking and design, the value of exploring Tier One as an initial low-cost investment is a great place to start. This extends the understanding of what lies under the IIBE hood, that fires and delivers your Ecosystem ambitions.
It provides some critical insights into how you could position your business for obtaining a competitive advantage at very low investments. You gain a highly valuable return for discovery, understanding and positioning of your Ecosystem.
Firstly Explaining The Overarching Commercial Logic
The IIBE commercial model is built as a progressive pathway, allowing clients to enter at different points depending on maturity, ambition, and urgency. All offerings align to four principles:
(1) Low-friction entry points
(2) Capability-building progression
(3) Implementation support
(4) Ongoing advisory and intelligence renewal
Every module is independent but connects into a broader arc of ecosystem capability formation.
My recommended starting point is:
Executive Ecosystem Exposure & Option Diagnostic
I believe this is a highly recommended entry point between us.. This post sets out to explain this offering
This is not about ecosystems. It’s about avoiding regret and loss of control.
“A contained executive diagnostic to identify hidden ecosystem exposure, option debt, and where strategic advantage can be regained — before those constraints become visible to the market.”
What It Actually Delivers in my view for you
Tangible outcomes
- A clear map of ecosystem exposure (where you depend on others without leverage)
- Identification of option debt (where past choices have silently constrained you)
- Three strategic ecosystem options that can an offer you different choice
- A decision briefing they can reuse internally (board / ExCo)
Most organisations today believe they are working in ecosystems.
Yet have you stopped and asked “Where is our Business Quietly Exposed in its Ecosystems?
Have you tested your exposure, dependencies and strategic options?
In reality, they are already embedded in complex ecosystems — suppliers, platforms, partners, regulators, data flows, technologies — without a clear view of where risk, dependency, and strategic constraint are really forming.
The danger is not that ecosystems fail loudly. The danger is that exposure accumulates quietly until options narrow, flexibility is lost, and strategic moves become reactive.
The Executive Ecosystem Exposure & Diagnostic is a low‑friction, executive‑level entry point designed to make this exposure visible before it becomes limiting.
This is focused on exposure, dependency, optionality and value flow, designed to inform decisions to offer a clear understanding of how your ecosystem is really operating- before deciding what to do next.
Why should organizations start here?
Leaders typically need to engage and undertake a diagnostic when they sense that:
- Partnerships are increasing, but confidence is not
- Dependencies feel higher than acknowledged
- Value creation is uneven or hard to explain
- Innovation, AI, or platform investments lack coherence
- Governance struggles to keep pace with complexity
This diagnostic helps answer:
“Where are we exposed, where are our options narrowing, and where could ecosystem thinking genuinely create advantage?”
Scope & Format
The Executive Ecosystem Exposure & Diagnostic is delivered as a time-bound, contained engagement, typically over 4–6 weeks.
It includes:
- A confidential executive diagnostic
- One focused diagnostic conversation (90 minutes) with senior leaders
- Targeted analysis using selected IIBE diagnostic lenses
- Identification of key ecosystem exposure, dependency, and optionality issues
- A short executive briefing summarising findings and implications
- A diagnostic to avoid misdirected investment or premature commitments
What This Does Not Include
To avoid misunderstanding, this diagnostic does not include:
- ecosystem design or redesign
- partner negotiations
- operating model changes
- implementation planning
- technology or platform selection
The engagement is deliberately limited in scope to ensure clarity without escalation
Partly designed to be delivered through targeted IIBE diagnostic lenses. Lenses form parts of the diagnostic conversations. Lenses are designed to stand alone or be combined depending on the needs
Requesting an Executive Ecosystem Exposure and Diagnostic
Contact Paul Hobcraft of Agility Innovation for also discussing these different options within this four-tier Commercial structure so as to determine the right pathway for your business aspirations and needs.
Commercial Offerings for the IIBE are Applicable from January 2026, subject to updates and change as portfolio of offers expands.