Orchestration Ecosystem Operating Model

The capabilities, structures and coordination mechanisms that enable ecosystem execution at scale.

The Compelling Case to Integrated Innovation and Business Ecosystems

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Designing Innovation Ecosystems as Integrated Business Ecosystems

I continue to read one report after another concerning the latest state of innovation play. These seem always to be on a repeat button and this does frustrate me. It is like a record stuck at the end unable to be switched off, constantly repeating hopefully there will be some magic intervention. With a record at the end you simple switch it off or lift the “needle” to solve the problem. Let’s do that with simply “innovation”.

Why can’t we move on from talking “just” innovation. We should be highly focused on innovation ecosystems and where they fit with integrated, interconnected business ecosystems. We need to make the connection for todays world.

So let me offer up the compelling case of putting that tired old record about innovation not working finally away and redirecting you to the equivalent of spotify as a Ecosystem solution. Just a typical example- the “excitement” of the 29th PwC Global CEO Survey stating only 50% view innovation as a critical component of their overall business strategy. Well of course innovation is dead, it is seen through the wrong lens.

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Why Organizations need a very explicit Ecosystem Business Model

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Recognising the importance of an Ecosystem Business Model Design

We do need to recognizethat Organizations are needing an Ecosystem Business Model design — and why existing models we currently apply are no longer enough. They need to be designed for the realities of Business Ecosystems, not for single organization application

Most organizations today are working on problems that no longer fit neatly inside their own boundaries. Growth, resilience, innovation, digital platforms, sustainability, data, AI, supply security, and customer experience increasingly depend on multiple independent actors acting together. Yet the dominant way we still design and evaluate business models remains firmly rooted in the logic of the single firm.

This mismatch is now a material risk, it is not allowing a more comprehensive evaluation of all the potential that can emerge from considering an Ecosystem design. It is often the reason why they so often fail, they are never explicitly designed for managing within collaborative, cross-cutting Ecosystems for example. Equally evaluations often need revisiting under a more structured approach.

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I believe we are entering the Post-Platform Era?

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Business Ecosystems, Platforms and the new Enterprise Framework

Is the world entering a decisive shift: from platform-centric models toward fully dynamic, intelligent, continuously-orchestrated business ecosystems. I believe so.

Economic advantage, innovation performance, and adaptive capacity will increasingly depend on an organization’s ability to operate within the Intelligent Business Ecosystem solution – systems defined by circulating intelligence, shared value creation, and human–AI collaboration at every level.

This will define competitive advantage in 2026–2030. It introduces the new intelligence fabric, explains the shifts we need towards a different approach to orchestration, combined as the new strategic differentiator

Integrated Business Ecosystems will become the dominant operating logic of the second half of the decade.

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Choosing Dynamic Business Ecosystems? We actually need them

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The IIBE Dynamic Operating System V2

The increasing pressure on business organizations to find real growth and impact is troubling. Expectations are growing with connected technology, the increased value from AI and the ability to collaborate all are requiring a different way to approach customers and provide radically new value opportunities.

Many of of existing organizations still operate with static operating models, hierarchical processes and siloed workflows. These modesl were built for predictability- not for complexity, interconnected markets, AI acceleration, or multi-party environments.

Today we are suffering from slower adaptation, fragmented intelligence, poor alignment across internal and external contributors, resulting in missed opportunities from this reluctance to collaborate, co-create or influence and shape markets beyond existing offerings.

What is necessary is to firstly explore why we need to shift to Ecosystems?

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