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The Business Ecosystem Alliance will create forums for the sharing of knowledge, learning and experience on the subject of 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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A framework for regeneration: from community to country-as-a-platform

In The Concept of the Corporation (1946), Peter Drucker warned us that the corporation is ‘in trouble because it is seen increasingly by more …

Dancing with Platforms

Digital platforms and their ecosystems are outgrowing all other businesses, usurping their market position, commoditizing their…

How business ecosystems can drive sustainability

The call for a more sustainable economy has become even more urgent during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Creating diverse and inclusive business ecosystems: a cooperative advantage perspective

A lot has been written about business ecosystems since James F. Moore provided a definition of the concept in his seminal …

Ideas@scale

James moore is one of the true pioneers in the field of business ecosystems. His 1993 Harvard Business Review article, ‘predators and prey: …

Crossing the chasm: from linear organizations to living ecosystems

Case study after case study reveals that the principles of Rendanheyi (the Haier Business Model) to be a major …

Planting banyan trees: strategic leadership in the age of ecosystems

It has been a decade since Stephen Elop, Nokia’s then-CEO, published his Burning Platform memo on the company’s internal …

Need, technology, and behavior: driving us inevitably to an ecosystem future

In 1993, a little-known illness infected 732 people across four states in the western US. The mysterious sickness led to the deaths of four children …

Growing opportunity

The rise of digital technology has fundamentally changed the way how business works. Businesses today compete and cooperate …

Rainforests as a model for economic growth

What makes ecosystems like Silicon Valley tick? Can we bottle that magic? Can we replicate it to transform the way …

How using digital ecosystems can transform an incumbent business

Climb a mountain, ski a backwoods trail, or just go on a hike, and the chances are Switzerland’s Mammut will be with you. …

Relationships > assets: Haier’s ecosystem revolution

Few ideas are attracting as much attention as that of ecosystems. Casually described as ‘constellations of partners’ or …

Outcooperating the competition: Building platform-ecosystem last movers by embracing a long-term and inclusive perspective

When we speak about ecosystems and platforms, new forms of organizations, and the role of …

Covid-19 and the rise of platform ecosystems in healthcare

BigTech platform moves into healthcare have been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. While most of these platforms …

Ecosystems Thinking

Business ecosystems, both enabled by and resulting from big changes in the ways we consume and produce, are developing …

ECOSYSTEMS@WORK

The Business Ecosystem Alliance champions the very best in ecosystem-related thinking and research, but it also highlights the leading…

Orchestrating workforce ecosystems

Today’s businesses rely increasingly on external contributors to perform mission critical work and to accomplish strategic …

Last musings on Rendanheyi – Humanizing the Future

Dr. Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor-at-large of Fortune Magazine, will be joined by experts…

The New Frontier of Ecosystem – Making sense of the new reality for organizations

To mark the publication of a brand new ebook, The Power of Ecosystems: Making Sense of the…

Zero-distance user engagement to create value cycles

In 2020 the Business Ecosystem Alliance launched the Zero Distance Awards to identify and…

EMC OS: Overcoming hierarchies through software-based contracts and agreements

As global enterprises transform towards maximizing human value, many will face the seemingly impossible…

Transforming GEA with Rendanheyi – Illuminating the transformation journey towards ‘human value maximization’ with GEA’s transformation journey

The Rendanheyi Silicon Valley Center will unveil the Transformation of GE Appliances 2021…

Announcing 2021’s inductees into this elite group

Presented by Business Ecosystem Alliance & Global Rendanheyi Research CentersAnnouncing 2021’s inductees into this elite group Sign up to our newsletter to stay up to date:Sign up hereSHARE THIS ARTICLE:

Rendanheyi@Work – MAQE’s Transformational Journey in Thailand

Andreas Holmer is the young CEO of MAQE, a Thai IT consulting firm. He decided and started implementing the Rendanheyi model …

Exploring Rendanheyi – How Fortune 500 companies have shattered bureaucracy to reconfigure their organizational structure

One-year updates from Fujitsu Western Europe after embarking on the RDHY transformation journey last year …

Inauguration ceremony of the Global RDHY Certification Center

Haier’s Rendanheyi approach is making inroads into organizational practice. …

Innovation Ecosystems thrive by deals and perish by theatre

In our monthly webinar session, we explore the latest insights and best practice around ecosystems.  Our September webinar will…

The Zero Distance Awards 2021

In 2020 the Business Ecosystem Alliance (BEA) launched the Zero Distance Awards.  The winners included Jaipur Rugs, Happy, Severstal, Ner Group, Fujitsu Europe and Centigo.

The philosophy and ecosystem of Hidden Champions

In 1987, the Harvard professor Theodore Levitt invited me to a conversation…

Harnessing the rising power of ecosystems: how to win in a post-COVID-19 world

“There are decades”, the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin noted, “where nothing happens, …

A playbook for creating adaptive ecosystems

Ecosystems have become a critical part of how industry leaders create new growth and capture competitive advantage. But how we…

The COVID-19 test: is your company perfect for its business ecosystem?

When on March 3, 2020, we asked how he was dealing with the COVID-19 crisis the manufacturing director of a large multinational…

The sea star syndrome: on the strategic choices of ecosystem participation

As two career consultants, it’s safe to say that we tend to get grouped with folk…

Building a butterfly brand

Mikkel Bjergso loves beer. So much so that the tattooed Dane, who was previously a physics teacher, has become the global leader of…

What if management models ate ecosystem strategies for breakfast?

In a recent article, Scott D. Anthony and Michael Putz examined an interesting question. How can it be that so many companies still…

Inside Ecosystems: optimized for fulfillment

In our monthly webinar series we explore the latest insights and best practice around ecosystems. Our August webinar…

A step-by-step approach to experiment with ecosystems

In the earlier article, “Ecosystems: the how factor,” we shared concrete, how-to guidelines to help executives design an ecosystem strategy that can be summarized…

The first step in improving an ecosystem

In 1878 Leo Tolstoy released what would become one of his most acclaimed works, the novel Anna Karenina. The book starts with a quote..

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 Power of Ecosystems ebook

The Power of Ecosystems

Making sense of the new reality for organizations

Insights from the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners.

Ecosystems are the new reality for organizations of all shapes and sizes no matter where they are in the world. They make sense of a complex, tech-led world and enable individuals and organizations to maximise their resources to make an impact. The Business Ecosystem Alliance brings together organizations and individuals to capture best practice and the latest thinking on ecosystems. The Power of Ecosystems, curated by Stuart Crainer, brings together a unique and compelling collection of fresh thinking on ecosystems from experts throughout the world.

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