Reference no: EM133441558
Questions:
Respond to each question under the 5 headers based on your organization Clark University.
Overall market-oriented ecosystem agenda:
- What competitive differentiators (creativity, new products, or efficiency) are critical to your businesses?
- Which of these three differentiators would lead you to the best growth and success within your industry?
Platform:
- What work should be shared on a platform and what else can then be allocated to cells or allies?
- How can platform work be organized into menu options that a cell leader can access to move quickly into a new market?
- How do you ensure your platform deeply understand the needs of business teams and strategic partners, maintain superior expertise, and be responsive to needs of internal customers?
Cells or teams:
- What work should be kept within cells to ensure agility and innovation?
- How do you quickly form teams that can explore and exploit new opportunities?
- How do you encourage individual teams to innovate new ideas as well as adapt ideas from others to create new markets?
Allies and strategic partners:
- Which businesses should be best kept within your company, and which should be best run by allies or strategic partners?
- How can you structure win-win alliances with your strategic partners (e.g., through fees, commissions, minor equity participation, or managing the right partner participation)?
- How do you cocreate with your partners and customers so that you can use and access their resources, capabilities, and information to win in the marketplace?
Ecosystem capabilities:
- How can you design and combine platform, cells, and partners in ways that strengthen or magnify critical ecosystem capabilities (external sensing, customer obsession, innovation, and agility) that are critical to the sustainable success of your business?
- What type of ecosystem (creativity-driven, product- or technology-driven, or efficiency-driven) fits your company or business group best?