Connecting insights and global best practice in business ecosystems

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We are committed to the core values evident in successful ecosystems:

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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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 …

Business Ecosystem Alliance launches Zero-Distance Award

The 10 inaugural winners of the Zero Distance Awards were announced in September 2020 at

Zero Distance Award Winners Survey

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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