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Past Events

  Date: 12 - 14 September 2023 

RenDanHeYi Open Talk 2023:
INTO THE ECOSYSTEM FUTURE

Once again the Business Ecosystem Alliance (BEA) is partnering with the Haier Model Institute (HMI) on a unique virtual event exploring the very latest thinking and best practice in the field of business ecosystems. On 12-14 September BEA and HMI will venture into the ecosystem future.

Please join us for a compelling series of webinars featuring leading ecosystem thinkers and practitioners from throughout the world. Simone Cicero and Luca Ruggeri of Boundaryless will analyse the groundbreaking work of Roche Diagnostics. Kaihan Krippendorff and a representative of GE Appliances will look at the world beyond hierarchy. Tammy L. Madsen (Santa Clara University) and David Cruickshank of SAP will explain their work on co-innovation platforms. And they will be joined by others, including London Business School’s Michael Jacobides, exclusively revealing their latest research and insights. More great speakers will be announced shortly.

And, as part of the festival of ideas we will also announce the latest winners of the Zero Distance Awards and will be joined live by some of the new inductees into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.

The ecosystem future cannot be missed. Register for the event now.

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  Date: 19 July 2023 

High Impact Ecosystems. Three Flavors. Three Strategies. Three Success Stories.

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  Date: 14 July 2023 

How to Measure Network Effects

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  Date: 29 June 2023 

Inside Workforce Ecosystems

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  Date: 29 May 2023 

Why 21st century visionaries lead ecosystems, not organizations

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  Date: 25 May 2023 

Building Sustainable Ecosystems: Strategies for Inclusive Business Growth

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  Date: 22 May 2023 

Building a Product Portfolio as an Ecosystem

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  Date: 20 - 21 September 2022

The Rise of the Ecosystem Economy

There has been fevered and inistent debate about the fourth Industrial Revolution, the emergence of the metaverse, AI and AR, the constant momentum of change. This two-day virtual event urges people to stop and think, to consider how the basics of organization and competition are shifting. With input from thinkers and practitioners from throughout the world, The Rise of the Ecosystem Economy cuts through the tech hyperbole to consider the future shape of organizations and the rise of the ecosystem economy, an entirely fresh way of looking at how organizations compete. 
 
Produced by the Haier Model Insitute (HMI) and the Business Ecosystem Alliance, the event also features the latest inductees into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame and the announcement of the recipients of this year’s Zero Distance Awards. 

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  Date: 11 July 2022 

The Ecosystem Canvas: How to Design a Business Ecosystem

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  Date: 13 June 2022  

SETTING STANDARDS

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  Date: 16 May 2022

ECOSYSTEMS IN MUSIC CREATION AND PERFORMANCE

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  Date: 11 April 2022

Leading the Open Enterprise: A Strategic Perspective

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  Date: 23-24 March 2022

Competition in the Age of Ecosystems

Over the seventy years or so since the field of competitive strategy has existed, the unit of study as predominantly been the company. Nearly every major competitive strategic concept – from the resource-based view (RBV) to Porter’s 5-Forces to Christensen’s Disruption Theory – has sought to explain why one company outperforms another company. 
 
With the arrival of platform-based businesses such as Facebook, AirBnB, and YouTube, many of these strategic concepts were applied to advance our understanding of the competitiveness of such platforms. 
 
The next era of competition, we believe, will be the business ecosystem. While business ecosystems have competed for many decades – between airline alliances, technologies (e.g., SAP v. Microsoft v. Oracle), operating systems (e.g., Android v. RIM v. iOS) – the prevalence of business ecosystems is being thrust to the foreground. The next era of competition will be defined by the ecosystem. 
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  Date: 14 March 2022

DISCOVERING QUANTUM MANAGEMENT

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  Date: 14 February 2022

CORPORATE-STARTUP PARTNERING

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  Date: 10 January 2022

The B2B sharing revolution

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  Dates: 15 - 16 November 2021

THINKERS50 awards gala 2021

The Business Ecosystem Alliance is delighted to be a partner of Thinkers50 2021, connecting to the world’s premier ecosystem of management thought leaders to share knowledge and best practice.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first ever Thinkers50 Ranking and will see business and management thinkers from around the world sharing two days of ideas, inspiration, and celebration. This virtual event takes place on the 15-16 November 2021. 

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  Date: 12 October 2021

ECOSYSTEMS@WORK

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  Date: 17 - 18 September 2021

ITERATING EXPERIENCE,
INVENTING VALUE

A truly unique event which brings together some of the world’s leading business thinkers and practitioners.

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  Dates: 16, 23, 30 September 2021

Leading For Exponential Impact: Turning the pressure into expanding opportunity

We are in the early stages of a big shift in the global economy that is creating both exponentially expanding opportunities and mounting performance pressures. Our institutions and leadership models were designed for a previous era and we aim to empower leaders to become the catalyst for profound institutional change.

Drawing on decades of research and the work with leaders of major companies around the world, as well as successful entrepreneurs, this course will focus on the changing role and practices of leaders in organizations that will need to be transformed. The content will focus on four broad domains:

  • Creating more focus on metrics that will matter in the future.
  • Orchestrating a broader array of resources (ecosystems) for impact.
  • Unleashing the potential for exponential impact by harvesting the core business while creating new ones.
  • Addressing the challenges of transformation.
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  Date: 13 September

INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS THRIVE BY DEALS AND PERISH BY THEATRE

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  Date: August 9

Inside Ecosystems: optimized for fulfillment

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  Date: July 12

ECOSYSTEMS: THE NEW CSO AGENDA

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  Date: June 14

Entrepreneurial ecosystems with Annika Steiber and Victor Hwang

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  Date: May 10

INSIDE ECOSYSTEMS WITH ASHLEY DUDARENOK & SHAMEEN PRASHANTHAM

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  Date: 24 - 25 March 2021

The Power of Ecosystems

How can you and your organization maximise the power of ecosystems? This unique series of free access webinars offers a smorgasbord of insight, practical tools and inspiration for all those trying to make sense of business ecosystems.  The launch event of the Business Ecosystem Alliance, The Power of Ecosystems provides you with access to the state of the art of ecosystem thinking and best practice.

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