{"id":52,"date":"2016-12-02T14:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T14:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-12-02T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T14:40:26","slug":"explaining-the-ecosystem-dimension-in-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/02\/explaining-the-ecosystem-dimension-in-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the Ecosystem Dimension in Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H2>Introduction to Ecosystems<\/H2><br \/>\nThe transition from internally focused to ecosystem-centric ways of working brings with it many advantages. It allows for companies to focus on their core competencies, to outsource all activities that are not strategic for the company and to employ ecosystems of third party developers to complement the core functionality provided by the company itself with extensions for specific customers and customer segments.<\/p>\n<p>For the industry at large, our research shows that although the principles of core competencies, outsourcing and crowd sourced ecosystems are well understood, many companies are still quite poor at fully embracing these concepts. Many of the companies studies still have a preference to continue to do many things internally that should be outsourced and tend to manage their ecosystem partners, during the selection, the execution and the conflict resolution stages, in a largely ad-hoc and locally optimized fashion.<\/p>\n<p><H2>Ecosystem Dimension in Short<\/H2><br \/>\nSimilar to the speed and data dimensions, we have defined, again based on our research, an evolution model for how companies work with software ecosystems. As shown in figure below, starting from an <em>internally focused company<\/em> (level 1), the first interactions with the ecosystem tend to be <em>ad-hoc and locally initiated<\/em> (level 2). Once the benefits are shown the next step is to take a more centralized approach but to focus on short-term benefits and hence the company takes more of a <em>tactical approach<\/em> (level 3). Over time, one of the ecosystems that the company is part of will start to be managed in <em>a more strategic fashio<\/em>n (level 4). Finally, the company adopts this <em>strategic approach to all its ecosystem<\/em>s (level 5).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ecosystems-dimension.jpg\" alt=\"Five levels of ecosystems dimension.\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ecosystems-dimension.jpg 720w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ecosystems-dimension-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/janbosch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ecosystems-dimension-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five levels of ecosystems dimension.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to Ecosystems The transition from internally focused to ecosystem-centric ways of working brings with it many advantages. 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