I have been undertaking a fairly extensive review of some of the largest Industrial Organisations and their current approaches to Ecosystems. Each is unique, partly based on their legacy positioning but partly on how they have chosen to evolve out their ecosystem approaches into the market place.
In a fairly extensive evaluation I have written my evaluation within this post “Are We Choking On Weak Ecosystem Signals missing Unexploited Synergies“
Taking and evaluating the following : Johnson Controls (JCI), Rockwell Automation, Emerson, Honeywell, Mitsubishi Electric, Knapp AG, Thyssenkrupp AG, Hitachi Energy and Baker Hughes it is amazing how each is approaching their Ecosystem management differently, how they are at different levels of maturity but also how ALL of THEM are failing to address Ecosystems in a comprehensive, systematic and structured way. Legacy is partly “at fault” but the biggest failure is applying management designs suited to the single organization not to a growing, dynamic network of partners. Until they open up to this shared collaboration the opportunities for a different level of growth stay restricted.
Where these organizations have taken Ecosystem designs is that they have tried to innovate internally only, their legacy corporate structures, internal silos and platform-first mindsets as the wrong Ecosystem approach, these are choking out weak signals. To overcome this they need to map their blind spots, surface unexploited partner synergies and deliver validated “investable options” back to their executive leadership.
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Siemen’s industrial partner vision builds on three waves of engagement
The power of the Siemens industrial partner ecosystem is in having partners combining their domain expertise, with the Digital Enterprise portfolio of Siemens to solve real-world challenges and create value for customers.
Building a powerful industrial partner ecosystem
How do you set about building an open, inclusive ecosystem that enables global knowledge sharing and open collaboration?
A fascinating session held at Hannover Messe 2022 by Siemens was entitled “Master digital transformation and accelerate business value through a powerful industrial Partner Ecosystem”, bringing together representatives of a solution group, moving towards 2,000 solution partners, that work within the platform provided by Siemens.
The concept provides an ecosystem approach that combines different partner expertise to tackle and support the digital transformation needed to break down silos and think well beyond the walls of the present customers’ current configuration within their factories to turn them into a Digital Enterprise.
The forum’s design is an open, highly collaborative way to solve problems, resolve challenges and build out a customer’s environment to benefit from the connected solutions that technology enablement brings.
The concept is to build on what each partner has already gained from their experience and expertise, delivered to their customers, to share and provide services and technology solutions to different Siemens customers that bring them higher business value and impact.