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The Business Ecosystem Alliance will create forums for the sharing of knowledge, learning and experience on the subject of ecosystems.

We are dedicated solely to the furtherance of knowledge and understanding and working towards a better world through ecosystems.

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The Business Ecosystem Alliance is a project managed and led by Thinkers50 with support from the Haier Group. All revenue generated by the project is re-invested in events and publishing.

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Ecosystems: The new CSO agenda

The profusion of ideas, tooks and frameworks seeking to better understand ecosystems means…

Turnstile logic: the new rules of strategy in an ecosystem world

The term ecosystem has been used in a business context for 20 years. Companies like Volkswagen and Toyota have been…

How do digital ecosystems defend their business?

Many of the most valuable public companies, like Google, Alibaba, and Amazon, are digital platforms. Valuable startups, such…

Managing the excess of ecosystems

In 2013, game developers Ziba Scott and Alex Schwartz set out to create a very bad game. This might seem…

Project-based ecosystems

7th February 2014, 20:14, Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi, Russia: 2.1 billion people are watching Vladislav Tretiak, an all star ice hockey player,…

Ecosystem maturity and the stepping stone strategy

One of the great puzzles in business is why some entrepreneurs benefit…

The end of strategy in business ecosystems?

There has finally been a consensus among strategy scholars that a new era demands a new way of organizing business…

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems with Annika Steiber and Victor Hwang

This unique LinkedIn Live session brings together two compelling voices offering new perspectives on ecosystems…

From vertical to horizontal: unleashing change through ecosystems

In my Still Moving: How to Lead Mindful Change, I write of the changing context for change in today’s world: the collapse …

Ecosystems as an engine for innovation and learning

The acceleration of industry change, as measured in shorter S-curve periods, and the profound changes that are taking place …

Inside Ecosystems with Ashley Dudarenok & Shameen Prashantham

The first session in the Inside Ecosystems webinar series features two leading China-based thinkers: Ashley Dudarenok and Shameen Prashantham. …

Gorillas can dance: partnering effectively with innovative small firms in ecosystems

Over a decade ago, I wrote an article titled “Dancing with gorillas” with Julian Birkinshaw about …

The age of community capitalism

We first visited Haier headquarters in Qingdao, China in 2017 and enjoyed an extended conversation with …

Business Ecosystem Execution

IMD’s Mark Greeven focuses on supporting executives of incumbent businesses to build business ecosystems …

Becoming a platform, enabling an ecosystem

Simone Cicero of Boundaryless navigates the route between platforms and ecosystems, explaining …

Designing a winning ecosystem

What does it take to create and sustain a successful business ecosystem?  Thinkers50 ranked thinker …

What makes a good gardener? Managing diverse partners in an innovation ecosystem

Collaboration between diverse partners, facilitated by digital technologies, can enable firms to create a …

Ecosystematic: a multidimensional process to navigate, learn, and shape the future

Christian Sarkar (founder of Double Loop Marketing) is the developer of ecosytematic, an ecosystem visualization …

Moore on Ecosystems

James F. Moore pioneered the study and understanding of business ecosystems. His 1993 article, ‘Predators …

How Microenterprises Really Work

Microenterprises have been utilized to dramatic effect at companies including Haier and …

Making Sense of Ecosystems

As business ecosystems are attracting more and more attention, as well as …

The growth ecosystem

As the weeks went by during the COVID-19 pandemic, and most countries were shutdown …

How Haier created an ecosystem solution for a Thai opportunity

William Malek of the South East Asia Center and the Innovation Management Research …

Transformation towards an ecosystem: how to establish an ecosystem business while sustaining success in the core business

Can you think of a mobile operating system that does not rely on various players coming together, …

On Ecosystems

Amit Kapoor (Institute of Competitiveness, India), Sangeet Paul Choudary (Platformation Labs)…

Ecosystems: the how factor

Ecosystems are the flavour of the organizational month. But, amid the hype and …

Towards knowledge economy 2.0: how new models of collaboration need to be evolved

Just as the steam engine triggered the first industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th century, and …

Ecosystemic evolutions: organizing beyond boundaries

As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, organizations face stunning …

From competition to coordination: adopting a strategic ecosystem mindset

The competitive landscape is evolving. Rather than vying for market share amongst themselves, organizations are …

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The Business Ecosystem Alliance was formed with the aim of encouraging knowledge sharing about business ecosystems

Ecosystems Inc.

Understanding, harnessing and developing organizational ecosystems.

Insights from the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners.

Organizations were once linear and one dimensional. No more. The modern organization exists in a multi-dimensional ecosystem sustained by a potent combination of trust, technology and management. Think of Amazon, Alibaba, WeWork, Tencent and Uber. In Ecosystems Inc. some of the world’s leading management thinkers make sense of what it takes to understand, harness and develop organizational ecosystems.

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