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This is a quick overview of the concept of business ecosystem applied to the "world of basket-ball". It is done in the context of a doctoral research in Strategic Management.
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What is a Business Ecosystem ?
By Morad O. Mouhsine
Université de Nice Sophia-AntipolisLaboratoire GREDEG - CNRS
250 Rue Albert Einstein 06560 Valbonne, France
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• PhD research in strategic management in Laboratoire GREDEG - CNRS in Sophia Antipolis, France.
• Research Director: Laurence SAGLIETTO, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis
• Theme: Business Ecosystems
Context
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Seeking inspiration in NatureThere is a long history of economists and management scholars seeking inspiration in nature in order to explain the structure of business networks and their dynamics.
Studies on ants, bees can help identify similarities with human organization of labor, crowd behavior...
Toyota studied the legs of cockroaches to improve the steering systems of its recent cars...
A management consultant decided to learn more about natural ecosystems...
...and draw lessons for the business world.
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The concept of BE takes its roots in ecology
It is the systems so formed which, from the point of view of the ecologist, are the basic units of nature on the face of the earth (...) These ecosystems, as we may call them, are of the most various kinds and sizes.
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Arthur G Tansley (1935)“The use and abuse of vegetational concepts and terms”
Origins of Business Ecosystems
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Natural ecosystems consist of heterogeneous species sharing and/or competing for limited resources. In natural ecosystems members co-evolve and develop, therefore strengthening the whole ecosystem.
For instance, if one species is weakened or disappears, it results in the entire ecosystem being affected: it may be better off or, inversely, in danger of collapse.
Natural Ecosystems
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The Metaphor
There are lessons to be learned from natural ecosystems structure and dynamics, especially in the field of strategic management.
Natural ecosystem
Business ecosystem
analogical thinking
limits of the analogyTansley (1935) Moore (1993)
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Origins of Business Ecosystems (BEs)
James Moore, “Predators and Preys: A new ecology of competition”, Harvard Business Review
I suggest that a company be viewed not as a member of a single industry but as part of a business ecosystem that crosses a variety of industries. In a business ecosystem, companies coevolve capabilities around a new innovation: they work cooperatively and competitively to support new products, satisfy customer needs, and eventually incorporate the next round of innovations.
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Business Ecosystems defined
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A BE is an original type of business network.
With a specific structure.
And specific dynamics.
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Structure of Business Ecosystems
• The main point about the structure of a BE is the diversity of actors.
• Actors can be organizations, individuals or groups of individuals, operating on profit or non-profit logics, governmental or non-governmental, etc.
• A BE is usually organized around one or more leaders.
• The leader(s)’ role is to align the resource & competence complementarities between the actors of the BE with an innovation agenda that inspires them all.
• In a BE, different actors play different roles. Businesses can either be keystones, dominators, or niche players.
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Dynamics of BEs include...
• Coopetition: alternative moments of cooperation and competition between actors within the BE.
• Co-evolution: the dynamics by which different actors evolve together with other actors thanks to the relationships they foster with each others.
• Leadership: one or more actors inspire the whole community and set the direction for the years to come.
• Leaders emerge, they are not appointed.
• Leadership changes overtime. IBM created and led the PC ecosystem around hardware until Microsoft and Intel took its leadership and developed it dramatically around software.
• Leaders could be non-business organizations or governmental institutions. It depends on the BE...
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Dynamics of BEs include...
• Innovation: actors in a BE innovate individually, in small groups or altogether. Innovations can be products/services, ideas/values, organizational forms, work processes...
• Shakeouts: such as financial crisis, natural disasters, new players, radical innovations... Shakeouts survival is a strong indicator of the health of the BE.
• Creation of niches: such as the electric car in the automotive industry. It is also an indicator of the health of the BE.
2004
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Famous Business Ecosystems
I-tunes platform and its leader, Apple
Amazon Web Services and its leader Amazon
The PC industry and its leaders Microsoft and Intel
but also
Premium quality coffee production, led by IllyCaffé
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The bigger the BE the more complex the relationships
between actors
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Operators
Print media, web media
CommunitiesSearch
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content, people, ideas, literature, music, films, art, hobbies, culture, civilization,
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TAIC SIMO modelJuhani Risku
2011
MIST UI+
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TAIC ecosystem
BusinessIdeal
Model
2011
Blogs
Mobile phones
Vodafone
Telefonica
Orange
China Mobile
T MobileFacebook
Gowalla
MySpace
YouTube
Social networking
Microblogging
Tablets, e-booksPads, laptops, PCs, TV
News Corp.
SonySonyEricsson
LG
HTC
SamsungRIM ZTEHuawei
Android
AppleNokia+Microsoft
Amazon
Walt DisneyTime WarnerViacom
CBS
Skype
Mashable
HuffingtonTechCrunch
EngadgetGizmodo
InternetOperator
Screen
Media
Apple ruleshorizontally
SIMO – TAIC models
Entertainment reservoirSoftware reservoir
Black Horse reservoir
Technology – Access – Interest – ChannelTAIC – SIMO business model
Juhani Risku 2011Screen – Internet – Media – Operator
Technology reservoir Screen – Internet – Media – Operator Technology – Access – Interest – ChannelSIMO business model
TAIC business model
BEs are usually vast, complex networks
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But it depends on the frontiers that you set to analyze the activity...
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Because, yes, “business ecosystem” is also a perspective...
...powered by a paradigm shift.
We don’t think anymore in terms of “our organization’s strategy vs our competitors’...”
but rather in terms ofour business ecosystem’s strategy vs
competing business ecosystems’
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Many questions arise
• What does each member individually contribute to the survival and development of the BE ?
• Who are the key actors in the BE and why ?
• What type of innovation does the BE produce ? how ?
• Are the actors of a BE conscious of their belonging to the BE in question ? does it make any difference in their day-to-day activities ?
• What are the factors that can threaten the BE ?
• How do actors from different “species” work together (for the good of the BE) ?
• Who is the competition ? for whom ? and how ?
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What are the determinants of the longevity of a business ecosystem?
My doctoral research in strategic management
More specifically, I am looking at the links between elements of structure and dynamics of a BE in order to suggest a “model” of BE longevity.
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I suggest that basket-ball be viewed as an original type of BE
Women professional basket-ball in France
is the field of investigation.19Monday, July 8, 13
Why basket-ball ?
Because it displays all the characteristics of a Business Ecosystem
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Because it seems to be an original case of Business Ecosystem
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Because competition is a key element in (and outside) basket-ball...
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Qualitative Research
Interviews of more than 20 different actors of the French Women Basket-Ball Ecosystem
1. Actors of women pro basketball in FranceII. Longevity of the French Women BE
Themes2months of interviews6
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First Results in September 2013...
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Please send your questions and comments to:
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