Embracing uncertainty
by Janka Krings-Klebe and Jörg Schreiner

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European industry is under threat from massively growing uncertainty. Trade tariffs, technological disruptions and fast-moving competitors on digital steroids cut deeply into predictions about business development. German managers report that their decisions can’t keep up with the pace of change in their business environment; they feel as if they have lost control. Uncertainty is so pervasive that it turns their former strengths, namely meticulously planning, organizing and controlling resources for highly efficient value creation, into a fundamental weakness. Drucker Forum 2019 This article is one in the “shape the debate” series relating to the 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum, under the theme “The Power of Ecosystems” taking place on November 21 & 22, 2019 in […]

Ecosystems: creating better outcomes through blockchain
by Igor Mikhalev

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The increasingly turbulent, competitive, complex, and uncertain business environment makes collaboration with competitors an attractive, if not the only, strategy for many firms. Such collaboration results in the formation of complex business ecosystems – a network of firms where each often represents conflicting interests. Dealing with these conflicting interests in “cooperative competition” fashion presents an unprecedented challenge – no single organization can control, predict or stipulate upfront all possible scenarios that could be unravelling. Drucker Forum 2019 This article is one in the “shape the debate” series relating to the 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum, under the theme “The Power of Ecosystems” taking place on November 21 & 22, 2019 in Vienna, Austria. #GPDF19 #ecosystems […]

The future is hiding in plain sight
by Sebastian Woller

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New technologies have radically transformed society, business and industries. Today, the world is much more adventuresome, connected, and disruptive than yesterday. As our world is reshaping and new ecosystems are emerging, education must adapt an active, new approach. Drucker Forum 2019 This article is one in the “shape the debate” series relating to the 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum, under the theme “The Power of Ecosystems” taking place on November 21 & 22, 2019 in Vienna, Austria. #GPDF19 #ecosystems Education can have a significant impact on developing an open mind and preparing us for the world of tomorrow. However, in the midst of technological and economic disruption, a too specialised degree or education can be […]

What does a leader look like in the business ecosystem era?
by Aura Rivero

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As Richard Straub says in his Harvard Business Review article, the point of understanding value creation for business ecosystems is to have a broader perception of it. Although it is hardly news that companies are not stand alone organizations, technology’s effect on business networks and platforms has made operations more interconnected than ever, which has brought this interconnectedness into sharp focus. Drucker Forum 2019 This article is one in the “shape the debate” series relating to the 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum, under the theme “The Power of Ecosystems” taking place on November 21 & 22, 2019 in Vienna, Austria. #GPDF19 #ecosystems An effective leader must adopt the right competencies that allow the organization to […]

Bridging the Gap from Movements to Ecosystems
by Meg Seitz

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I walked into last year’s Global Peter Drucker Forum thinking that movements are big, full expressions of just about anything – ideas, music, business, people. They’re rallies, crusades, forums. They tackle culture-shifting topics. They’re almost too big to grasp. After two days at the Forum, and as a panelist on the Final Fireworks session, I realized that as grandiose as movements can be, they’re really simple. They’re one person tuning in to a gut feeling – and taking the responsibility to do something about it. Flying out of Vienna, I felt naive. Like, I’d just expressed classic liberal arts graduate optimism. One person. Right. How. Drucker Forum 2019 This article is one in the “shape […]

Call the doctor!!!…. diagnose interferences in your ecosystem by asking the “right” questions
By Herb Nold and Lukas Michel

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Richard Straub in his starter article for this year’s Global Peter Drucker Forum, What Management Needs to Become in an Era of Ecosystems made some excellent observations. Straub correctly, in our view, suggested that the ecosystems are not new quoting numerous theorists whose ideas were shaped primarily during the last century. However, we suggest that organizational ecosystems have always existed and just given a name in the last 50 or so years. What has changed since the end of the last century is the speed at which conditions change primarily due to advancements in technology; the internet, AI, social media, and more. Traditional measures like profits, market share, ROI, stock price, etc. are outcomes from […]

Could partnering capability be the Achilles’ heel of ecosystems?
by Jan Twombly, CSAP and Jeff Shuman, CSAP, PhD

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Partnering in the ecosystem era For any of the transformative effects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to be fully realized, it will take an ecosystem of partners agilely working together in an orchestrated, yet open model. To add to the complexity, every customer scenario needs a different mix of partners, requiring stewardship of the ecosystem to have the partnerships to call upon when needed. Thus, technology and partnering in combination are today’s business imperative. Ecosystem partnering brings together multiple companies with different capabilities and resources, different business models, and increasingly, various industry orientations to provide a holistic “solution” for a use case or specific customer situation. Numerous partnering models and value propositions are possible. Drucker […]

Ecosystems: a new frontier for de-bureaucratization?
by Erhard Friedberg

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Describing in his HBR article of May-June 1993 the challenges an ecological approach to business strategy brings with it, James Moore emphasized that we have to keep in mind that business ecosystems are not co-evolving organisms, but social systems the larger patterns of which are maintained by a complex network of choices made by real people with their bounded rationalities. The obvious implication of this remark is that when talking about ecosystems, we have to leave the lofty heights of strategy, targets, goals and corporate communication, to focus instead on what Philip Selznick has called the operative systems on which the functioning of ecosystems will depend. The view from the top argues that the functioning […]