How industry leaders enhance the value of ecosystems

Abstract

Purpose The article explains how industry leaders engage in ecosystems effectively to access new markets and new geographies, and through intensive collaboration within new partnering arrangements, ecosystems have become an essential resource for building their new capabilities. Design/methodology/approach Executives of the most successful organizations surveyed embrace their existing ecosystems and expect to pursue new and different partnering arrangements. Outperforming organizations credit their ecosystems with generating value and innovation. The article looks at what they did differently than under-performers. Findings Ecosystems can drive a broad range of strategic opportunities including new engagement and monetization models. Practical implications Ecosystems help organizations access critical capabilities that would have otherwise been unavailable or very difficult to obtain. 10; 10; 10; Originality/value 3BLeaders of outperforming organizations recognize the significant opportunity to improve skills by learning alongside ecosystem partners.

Relational leadership in collaborative governance ecosystems

“…In summary, to explain how ecosystems without centrally controlling leaders exercise leadership, our literature review emphasizes relationships, learning and communications between team members and individual agents in the ecosystem, noting that these features differ markedly from controlled networks. Since as Davidson et al's (2018) research recently shows, 70% of above average performance firms have adopted ecosystem governance arrangements, it is important to understand how this occurs, what is the substance of relations in ecosystems? Hartley and Allison (2000) answer is persuasive: follow learning from practice!…”