Business Ecosystems

Business ecosystems are crucial for achieving organizational and societal goals. This article describes key factors for effective business ecosystems and how capabilities can be leveraged to create the critical connections within them.

This SlideShare explores key concepts and principles of resilient and sustainable organizations and business ecosystems, using the natural world as our guide. It also explores how business and enterprise architecture can be leveraged to build resilient and sustainable organizations, focusing on their role in assessment, design and transformation to future state.

Amidst the backdrop of a digital, globally connected world and the evolution of the very purpose of the firm, organizations are beginning to rethink and shift their mindsets and structures from shareholder focus to stakeholder focus, from profit-driven to value-driven, and from competing as an organization to thriving as a key part of ecosystems. With this future trajectory in mind, this article provides an overview of the essential role business architecture plays in defining, designing, implementing, and managing business ecosystems, along with examples of where this concept is emerging in practice.