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THE POWER OF ECOSYSTEMS

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Day 1

   March 24 2021 

SESSION #1:

  10am UK / 11am EU/ 6am NYC / 6pm Beijing

MAKING SENSE OF ECOSYSTEMS

As business ecosystems are attracting more and more attention, as well as being implemented by a growing number of companies, how can we most usefully understand and utilize their power? In this opening session Janka Krings-Klebe (co-founder and managing partner of co-shift) provides insights on creating a setup for future business ecosystems drawn from her book Future Legends: Business in Hyper-Dynamic Markets and Raymond Hofmann argues the case for new management models to exploit the full potential of the ecosystem reality. 

Moderator:

Stuart Crainer

Speakers:

Raymond Hofmann

Janka Krings-Klebe

SESSION #2:

  12pm UK / 1pm EU/ 8am NYC / 8pm Beijing

HOW MICROENTERPRISES REALLY WORK

Microenterprises have been utilized to dramatic effect at companies including Haier and Fujitsu.  Bram van der Lecq (author of a new book on the Haier model) explores the realities of actually making microenterprises work with input from Vincent Rotger (CSO of Haier Europe), João Domingos (Vice President, Head of Western Europe, Fujitsu) and Sylvia Junhui Guan of Haier.

Moderator:

Bram van der Lecq

Speakers:

Vincent Rotger

João Domingos

Sylvia Junhui Guan

SESSION #3:

    2pm UK / 3pm EU/ 10am NYC / 10pm Beijing

MOORE ON ECOSYSTEMS

James F. Moore pioneered the study and understanding of business ecosystems. His 1993 article, ‘Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competition’ and bestseller The Death of Competition: Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems created a new agenda for business – and beyond.  In this unique session James Moore will give insights into his latest work and thinking.

Moderator:

Stuart Crainer

Speakers:

James Moore

SESSION #4:

    4pm UK / 5pm EU/ 12pm NYC / 12am Beijing

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 tool.  In this session he will outline three levels of ecosystematic analysis: individual, business, and society—and pose questions which will allow participants to learn about how ecosystematic impacts learning, marketing, innovation, leadership and change.

Moderator:

Annika Steiber

Speakers:

Christian Sarkar

Day 2

   March 25 2021

SESSION #1:

    8am UK / 9 am EU/ 4am NYC/ 4pm Beijing

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 diverse and innovative ecosystem. But, how can a firm be a good “gardener” of such an ecosystem? How can ecosystem leaders establish an effective and collaborative relationship with diverse partners in innovation ecosystems? Karolin Frankenberger of the Institute of Management and Strategy at the University of St. Gallen offers exclusive access to her latest research. A former McKinsey & Company consultant, she is the co-author of The Digital Transformer’s Agenda and author of The Business Model Navigator.

Moderator:

Stuart Crainer

Speakers:

Karolin Frankenberger

SESSION #2:

    10am UK /11am EU/ 6am NYC / 6pm Beijing

DESIGNING A WINNING ECOSYSTEM

What does it take to create and sustain a successful business ecosystem?  Thinkers50 ranked thinker Michael G Jacobides of London Business School, whose recent articles in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review and Forbes have helped shape the debate, and Alessandro Di Fiore, founder and CEO of ECSI Consulting, provide their insights based on global research and consulting assignments.

Moderator:

Raymond Hofmann

Speakers:

Alessandro Di Fiore

Michael Jacobides

SESSION #3:

    12pm UK / 1pm EU/ 8am NYC / 8pm Beijing

BECOMING A PLATFORM, ENABLING AN ECOSYSTEM

Simone Cicero of Boundaryless navigates the route between platforms and ecosystems, explaining how to connect the market with the organizational model. He is joined by experts from the field and adopters of Boundaryless frameworks: Yolanda Martin (Platform Ecosystem Design Director at Kaluza, OVO Group’s technology platform ecosystem driving the transition to a zero-carbon grid) and Roberto Battaglia (Head of HR at IMI Corporate & Investment Banking, Intesa Sanpaolo).

Moderator:

Simone Cicero

Speakers:

Yolanda Martin

Roberto Battaglia

SESSION #4:

    4pm UK / 5pm EU/ 12pm NYC / 12am Beijing

BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM EXECUTION

IMD’s Mark Greeven focuses on supporting executives of incumbent businesses to build business ecosystems for over a decade. While ecosystem initiatives on paper often look great, implementing them in the real world is often challenging. Together with Oliver Pabst, CEO of the iconic and pioneering Mammut mountaineering brand, we discover the five key pitfalls of ecosystem execution, and more importantly, what to do about them. 
 

Speakers:

Mark Greeven

Oliver Pabst

PLUS Additional on-demand content:

FROM COMPETITION TO COORDINATION: ADOPTING A STRATEGIC ECOSYSTEM MINDSET

The competitive landscape is evolving. Rather than vying for market share amongst themselves, organizations are forming collaborative ecosystems with unlikely partners to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges and achieve common goals. Join us for a dialogue among Chief Strategy Officers that will focus on the implications of ecosystems on business strategy and explore how their formation will carry us forward into the future. The participating CSOs are Claus Jensen (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), Ed Knapp (American Tower Corporation), Tess Caputo (Zoetis) and Kalina Nikolova (Verizon
Media). They will be joined by Linda Hill of Harvard Business School and Kaihan Krippendorff, a bestselling author in his own right, will be the moderator.

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Moderator:

Kaihan Krippendorff

Speakers:

Claus Jensen

Ed Knapp

Tess Caputo

Kalina Nikolova

Linda Hill

TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY 2.0: HOW NEW MODELS OF COLLABORATION NEED TO BE EVOLVED

Partha S. Ghosh

Just as the steam engine triggered the first industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th century, and the internal combustion engine, along with the development of electricity, vacuum tubes, and transistors, triggered the second industrial revolution during the first half of 20th Century, and the rise of microcomputers with the internet and “www” unlocked the Information revolution (Knowledge Economy 1.0), we now see the emergence of Knowledge Economy (2.0) enabled by a powerful convergence engine, driven by AI, AR, 5G, precision sensors, neuroscience, and the likes. This phenomenon is poised to unleash a new wave of possibilities. Organizations have to embrace this with a new mindset, using organizational models fundamentally different from the ones perfected and practiced during the last century.

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Partha S. Ghosh

ON ECOSYSTEMS

Amit Kapoor (Institute of Competitiveness, India),  Sangeet Paul Choudary (Platformation Labs), Annika Steiber (Director for Rendanheyi Silicon Valley Center) and Stuart Crainer (Thinkers50) make sense of the new ecosystem reality.

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Moderator:

Stuart Crainer

Speakers:

Annika Steiber

Amit Kapoor

Sangeet Paul Choudary

HOW HAIER CREATED AN ECOSYSTEM SOLUTION FOR A THAI OPPORTUNITY

William Malek of the South East Asia Center and the Innovation Management Research Centre provides the inside story of how Haier put ideas about ecosystems to work to unlock a new market in Thailand.

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Moderator:

Stuart Crainer

Speakers:

William Malek

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