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In this conversation, Corinne Dive-Reclus (Global Head of Digital Diagnostics at Roche), and Simone Cicero and Luca Ruggeri of Boundaryless bring their extensive experience and unique insights into how companies can successfully navigate the transformative journey from being a traditional distributor towards becoming an active participant in an open ecosystem, as well as the implications of moving from a singular product focus to adopting a platform approach. This will delve into why Roche, a global frontrunner in healthcare, decided to transition towards an open ecosystem model and what this major shift entails.

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We have invited 3 of the brightest and most original thinkers on the subject of ecosystems to provide their perspective on organizational reality and where ecosystem thinking is heading next. 

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Technologies such as robotics, 3D printing, IoT, Blockchain, and AI, have brought down the effort and costs of organizing human activity. As a result, alternative models of organization are emerging. The defining design elements of a winning new organizational model are coming into focus. This organizational philosophy and system is composed of several innovative characteristics, including the breaking of large hierarchical units into “micro-enterprises” (MEs), turning support functions into profit centers that must sell into the enterprise rather than cost centers, and relating to employees as intrapreneurs.

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James F. Moore, author of The Death of Competition, is one of the true pioneers of the field of business ecosystems. In this session he provides insights into his latest thinking, based on a research journey to China.

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Michael Jacobides of London Business School is one of the world’s foremost authorities on what is happening and likely to happen in the future in the world of business ecosystems. In this session he shares his latest research and thinking. He is joined in discussion by Giuseppe Stigliano, the CEO of the global creative platform Spring Studios, and the consultant, teacher and researcher, Yuri Romanekov, who share their experiences and reality-tests the ideas.

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Thanks to technology there are myriad of ways of gathering information on customers.  Indeed, organizations have never known more about their customers than they do today. But, that does not automatically translate into close, mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their customers. Bringing customers onboard, getting them truly involved in the work of an organization challenges many of the foundations of traditional organizations. It can be done. Nick Van Langendonck, founder of Unbossers, believes that customers can truly be partners and their involvement in shaping the future is key to creating tomorrow’s organizations. Nick is joined by Laurent Zintz who is helping put this idea to work at the Projective Group and consultant, author and ecosystem champion, William Malek.

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A co-innovation platform provides an environment where firms can combine or recombine ideas to generate novel solutions. By providing access to demand-side and supply-side resources and capabilities to facilitate co-innovation, the platform solves this problem and shapes the ecosystem’s innovation trajectory from the ground up. Strategic and practical guidance for orchestrating collaborative problem solving and ecosystem growth.