Category Archives: Business Ecosystem Understanding

A New Way to Drive Value Through The Integrated Business Ecosystem Design

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Ecosystems in the business environment are taking on a growing importance to manage greater complexity and challenges in unique collaborations than the one single organization cannot handle themselves, so limiting their growth and value potential

We need a different framing of Ecosystems, in appreciating the whole as well as its parts. Often, we describe Ecosystems in far too simplistic terms and fail to recognize the interconnected value we need to bring together from multiple Ecosystems and Networks to extract the value potential that is possible in today’s connected world.

In constructing these Ecosystems I have here provided a short explainer of the Integrated Business Ecosystem Frame and then a summary page of each of its parts with specific definitions and key component parts outlined. These are Ecosystems specifically dealing with innovation, start-up and entrepreneurial, business, dynamism, business, enterprise and enterprise to enterprise (E2E)

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Building the foundation for your future through Partner Ecosystems

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Business Partner Ecosystems need clarifying

This week I really have been focusing on Partner Ecosystems Firstly comparing the differences between Partner Ecosystems with Alliances & Partnerships, evaluating my foundations and planning out my future approaches to these areas of Ecosystems. Then as part of my recent researching into the broader subject of Business Ecosystems I have been making different interconnections and tracking back to my posts specifically focused on Partner Ecosystems to make better connections. Yesterday I did a release of a collaborative “flyer” on “Unlocking Value Through Partner Systems“

So it has been a well-focused time but I thought I should complete one more “backward glance” before I move forward. So I asked ChatGPT to help me, in evaluating my Partner Ecosystem posts so far, offering a summary and a useful prompter to quickly refer too.

Looking back, so I am better positioned in moving forward was my aim

I brought together this collection of past posts which needed compiling in key insights I have written on the importance and value of Partner Ecosystems. This serves for me as a foundation for a handy consolidated of points for building and maximizing partner ecosystems. It also gives me the chance to spot gaps and structure the “improved” way forward..

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Are You Unlocking Value Through Partner Ecosystems?

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The value of teaming up is what provides value in partnerships and alliances along with partner ecosystems.

I have been working and exchanging thinking and concepts with Mikel Mangold and we brainstormed about 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚅𝚊𝚕𝚞𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚛 𝙴𝚌𝚘𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖 🤝 and came out with this handy visual

Companies like Dell, Schneider Electric, Tesla, Startups, IKea, Philips, Siemens, Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, Nike, Patagonia and many many more know that partner ecosystems drive transformative growth.

Strategic alliances deliver impressive gains, with previous EY research showing that successful ecosystems contribute 16.2% incremental revenue growth, 16.5% incremental earnings, and 14.6% cost reduction. In today’s world, ecosystems aren’t just helpful—they’re essential. Here’s why:

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Evolving to my focus on the Business Ecosystem story

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Building Strong Business Ecosystems

Recently I have been reflecting and giving a new focus on my journey on Business Ecosystems. On this dedicated web site ecosystems4innovating.com I have traveled from my initial emphasis on the platform and the technology parts, increasingly recognizing and moving towards building over these past few years, the business ecosystem story and understanding needed. I have evolved my thinking from over 200 plus posts published as this evolving journey to lead up to today and my current opinion. The future promises to be exciting-

Let me summarize this on a current state of Ecosystem play, as it forms the basis of where I go forward in the continued development of Business Ecosystems and why I see these as significant in value to any business searching for new growth, different impact points and recognizing the value of collaborating within networks of ecosystems to accelerate their offerings, making these more resilient and sustaining.

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Crafting the Interconnected Business Ecosystems Story is complex in itself.

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Crafting a compelling story that encompasses building ecosystem capabilities, establishing the Interconnected Business Ecosystem Needs, and implementing a blueprint to navigate the ever-changing landscape involves far more than I initially contemplated.

Business Ecosystems are complex. To argue the need to interconnect makes this even tougher and let me put some initial structure to this.

There is so much in weaving any narrative to find the right ways to resonate with your audience.

Here’s a structured approach to build out this story. I believe these become individual parts of a complete storytelling, and I am slowly working through them.

Is it working? I think so but I do have moments of concern and worry it is not getting the imperative of needed focus behind this change to Business Ecosystem thinking and design for businesses to recognize they are in a very different world of reliance.

We need to recognize a growing reliance on building dynamic networks of growing dependencies that leverages on the “collective power and diversity” to tackle problems that need complex thinking through this Interconnected Business Ecosystem approach.

As I tell this story it is equally revealing itself more and more to me. I am learning constantly to adjust, adapt and keep flexible and agile, just like my arguments for businesses to design and think through.

To further help I asked Google through its NotebookLM to provide me back their story of how this might evolve

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How critical Dynamic Ecosystems are to any Ecosystem Design

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The importance of Recognizing Dynamic Ecosystems

We recognize the need for business to embrace change and thrive through adaptation in a rapidly evolving business landscape does require a very dynamic environment.

Dynamic Ecosystems are central to providing the engine to collaborations, adaptation and future leadership. Its central role is to build constant adaptation and resilience, pushing to create increasing value through discovery and extraction throughout the entire ecosystem, and providing the evolving positioning of business as leaders in tomorrows industries and solutions provided.

A continuous learning and acquiring knowledge insights needs this rapid adaptability from the Dynamic Ecosystem. Central to investing and exploring innovation, leveraging network effects, capitalizing on synergies and diversities to deliver into decision making the best options and value.

Dynamic Ecosystems build future ecosystem resilience and including participation as the core to thinking evolution and discovery, to exploit and expand to what is possible, through ecosystem-centric thinking and design. They are critical to delivering through collaborative arrangements and diversity of thinking and knowledge sharing.

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Seeking The Alternative Path: Partner Ecosystems for Innovation, Resilience, and Providing Unique Impact

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Seeking The Alternative Path: Partner Ecosystems for Innovation, Resilience, and Proving Unique Impact

In an increasingly interconnected and complex business environment, partner ecosystems offer an alternative path to traditional business models. This approach not only fosters different types of innovation but also enhances organizational resilience and creates lasting impact. Here’s how and why partner ecosystems are transformative:

Business Pitch Summary:

  • We need to Innovate Differently: Harness diverse expertise to drive unique, customer-centric solutions comes from unique partner ecosystem configurations.
  • The real need is Building Resilience: Share risks, adapt quickly, and ensure robust operations does occur from applying a collaborative approach and building sustaining co-creation solutions.
  • Create Lasting Impact: Foster sustainable innovation and inclusive economic growth is achieved in community and customer engagement, discovering and sharing value, impact and novel solutions that solve real problems that can only be achieved from co-operations and awareness.
  • The Value of Finding the Right Facilitator: Building effective Partner Ecosystems needs a very focused facilitator to bring together and equally to draw out the concepts, values and diversity of unique partner ecosystem configurations.
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The Building Blocks of Connected Business Ecosystems

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The Building Blocks of Business Ecosystems in thinking and design

In a world where everything seems to be becoming complex, challenging or simply tough to make the necessary changes, we need to think differently.

We need to collaborate and co-create and that comes from adopting the mindset of Business Ecosystems.

Designing a shared strategic cooperation, recognizing everything needs or is interconnected to achieve a different market position we need to think differently.

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Cutting through the issues with Partner Ecosystems

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Cutting through the issues to build a Partner Ecosystem

Sometimes we do limit our thinking in business. One organization wants to “own it” and through this limited view deny themselves a diverse set of growth options by opening up to collaborations and co-creation.

Partner ecosystems are far, far more than supply chain or purchasing agreements. They can be a real catalyst for new growth opportunities, resolution to complex challenges and provide new options to build a business differently for impact and sustaining value.

I believe many organizations need to look beyond the “known” and explore the “unknown. It is not as uncomfortable as you might initially think, yet it needs some serious thinking through and approaching and the business case shown below might prompt your thinking to reach out.

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Building Momentum in Business Ecosystems: Research Insights and Future Directions

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Recognizing how connected Business Ecosystems need to be

During the August period, quieter for client engagement, it gave me the opportunity to really do some extensive research across the multiple topics around Business Ecosystems.

The research reminded me that in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the concept of Business Ecosystems is gaining increasing prominence but is still not well understood.

There is a real need for companies to remain competitive but they are seemingly striving to gain value reliant on old or existing tools and thinking.

The value of Business Ecosystems, in thinking and design for leveraging their growth is still hesitant for so many to investigate or explore. Building justification for making a change in thinking takes time and validation. This further research will yield more for convincing many still reluctant to “open up” to this change to recognize the need for this Ecosystem thinking to happen……..to them.

Simply, it is recognizing that these business ecosystems are becoming so crucial to resolve the complex challenges we are facing to day and that needs collaboration and co-creation but are complex in their structure and execution.

I have tried to summarize the key insights and areas of inquiry from this recent research in the following ways:

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