Achieving engagement outcomes from cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

April 13, 2023Posted inBusiness Ecosystem Understanding, Business Ecosystems, cross-sector collaborations, Ecosystems, Industrial Ecosystems, Innovation Ecosystems, Knowledge Ecosystems, Network & Collaborating Effects, Sustainability, Value Creation Dynamics, Value Designing3 Comments

This is the fourth and final post discussing cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. It is primarily dealing with the benefits of collaboration and bringing up to a ‘given point’ a compelling value proposition for potential collaborators in understanding the basic building blocks to consider, for achieving the engagement outcomes required.

Within the series of four posts, I have been emphasising that cross-sector collaborations are becoming essential to our future in tackling highly complex challenging issues that need collaborative resolution, the necessary parts need connecting.

Yet to get to these cross-sector collaborations you do need to take a very considered holistic view of what is needed in any collaboration, let alone ane cutting across sectors to generate a successful outcome. All the elements of skills, processes, tools, capabilities and behaviours are important in supporting an effective collaboration across sectors that might need to be involved.

Approaching Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

April 12, 2023Posted inBusiness Ecosystem Understanding, Business Ecosystems, cross-sector collaborations, Ecosystems, Industrial Ecosystems, Innovation Ecosystems, Network & Collaborating Effects, Sustainability, Value Creation Dynamics, Value Designing1 Comment

In a series exploring cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations, this is the third post discussing different aspects and the approach to this that needs to be taken as my suggested starting point.

All the elements of skills, processes, tools, capabilities and behaviours are important in supporting an effective collaboration across sectors that might need to be involved.

Clarifying the design and common points is essential

Approaching Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

April 11, 2023Posted inBusiness Ecosystem Understanding, Business Ecosystems, cross-sector collaborations, Ecosystems, Industrial Ecosystems, Innovation Ecosystems, Network & Collaborating Effects, Sustainability, Value Creation Dynamics, Value Designing1 Comment

In a series exploring cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations, this is the third post discussing different aspects and the approach to this that needs to be taken as my suggested starting point.

All the elements of skills, processes, tools, capabilities and behaviours are important in supporting an effective collaboration across sectors that might need to be involved.

Clarifying the design and common points is essential

Specific skills and toolkits are needed for cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations.

April 7, 2023Posted inBusiness Ecosystem Understanding, cross-sector collaborations, Customer Seamless Experiences, Industrial Ecosystems, Innovation Ecosystems, Knowledge Ecosystems, Network & Collaborating Effects, Value Designing1 Comment

This month I am completing a series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. This is the second post that I am sharing here on my dedicated ecosystem thinking site and also through my paul4innovating posting site, which has different audiences to discuss this with.

For me, cross-sector collaborations are becoming essential to our future in tackling highly complex challenging issues that need collaborative resolution

Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations do have real differences and I am to draw these out and my aim is to draw these out in this series.

Specific skills and toolkits are needed for cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations.

April 6, 2023Posted inBusiness Ecosystem Understanding, cross-sector collaborations, Customer Seamless Experiences, Industrial Ecosystems, Innovation Ecosystems, Knowledge Ecosystems, Network & Collaborating Effects, Value Designing1 Comment

This month I am completing a series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations. This is the second post that I am sharing on both my dedicated ecosystem thinking site and also through my paul4innovating posting site, which has different audiences to discuss this with.

For me, cross-sector collaborations are becoming essential to our future in tackling highly complex challenging issues that need collaborative resolution.

Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations do have real differences and my aim is to draw these out in this series.

Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

April 4, 2023Posted inBusiness Ecosystem Understanding, cross-sector collaborations, Industrial Ecosystems, Innovation Ecosystems, Knowledge Ecosystems, Network & Collaborating Effects, Value Creation Dynamics2 Comments

Collaborations form the essence of discovery, relationships, innovation and new knowledge exchange.

As we move increasingly towards more open innovation hubs and increased ecosystem management the recognition is that many of the challenges and problems have not just become too complex to tackle alone, or even in a single industry but require cross-sector innovation (ecosystem designed) collaboration (CSIC) in consortia-developed approaches.

Sharing in collaborative arrangements enables the potential for improved operational productivity, and shared application development, tapping into a wider ongoing customer engagement and skill enhancements for all involved to gain from.

When you begin to evaluate cross-sector collaborations, the potential in building out initiatives that can only be achieved with a diversity of partners, different industry entities and drawing in the varied business networks get recognized.

In a series of posts, both shared on my dedicated ecosystem thinking site and also through this, my paul4innovating posting site, which has different audiences to discuss this with.

For me, cross-sector collaborations are becoming essential to our future in tackling highly complex challenging issues that need well-organized and coordinated collaborative resolution

Yet we have to be careful as cross-sector innovation collaborations do have differences and can be complicated. I hope this post series helps in your thinking about these cross-sector collaborations

Future industry ecosystems will be highly collaborative and adaptive.

March 6, 2023Posted inBusiness Ecosystem Understanding, Business Ecosystems, Ecosystems, Industrial Ecosystems, Innovation Ecosystems, Knowledge Ecosystems, Network & Collaborating Effects, Network Effects, Sustainability, Value Creation Dynamics
Future connected industry ecosystems will be highly collaborative

Seizing breaking opportunities, dealing with disruptions, and delivering on more demanding customer needs are raising the complexity of managing today in our business environments.

The growing recognition is the need to build flexible ecosystems; of partners where access to a diverse on-demand set of talent, knowledge, expertise, resources and capabilities needs a broad approach in today’s world to meet these complex challenges they seem to multiply daily.

In thinking and design, ecosystems offer a different growth path and stability than the previous “go it alone”. Engagements with partners can offer shared data, new, fresh insights, the ability to share costs, shared operation experiences, and expertise to help build new approaches to more ‘connected’ collaborative innovation.

Ecosystems need re-stating for business. Are they real ecosystems?

February 20, 2023Posted inBusiness Ecosystems, Ecosystems, Industrial Ecosystems, Innovation Ecosystems, Knowledge Ecosystems, Network & Collaborating Effects, Sustainability, Value Creation Dynamics
Ecosystems – the need to be re-stated for Business

What are the significant differences between Natural and Business Ecosystems? I wanted to look at this and make some observations and comparisons. Firstly what we seem to get wrong in many labelling of business ecosystems, where sustainability fits, and then attempting to show apparent differences between Natural and Business Ecosystems needs a greater appreciation of differences.

We label far too much as Business Ecosystems.

Applying the label of “Ecosystems” to everything degrades the understanding of its true intent. Ecosystems need to be appreciated as vital and recognized as radically different in how they function and operate.

We call something an “ecosystem, ” which simply provides a rubber stamp of being politically correct, showing the day’s currency, and trying to represent what this means provides additional value or impact. Ecosystem thinking and design are fundamental challenges to how existing organizations go about their business.

Many businesses are claiming “ecosystem” but are, in fact, extending their present, established open innovation activities and placing a greater emphasis on open networking to seek out diverse ideas. This extension alone is not new Ecosystem thinking or design; it is existing thinking.

Stages of a Virtual Industrial Metaverse Learning Journey

December 13, 2022Posted inBusiness Ecosystems, Ecosystems, Industrial Ecosystems, Innovation Ecosystems, Knowledge Ecosystems, Metaverse, Network & Collaborating Effects, Platforms, Value Creation Dynamics
Viewing the stages of the Virtual Industrial metaverse journey

The Industrial Metaverse has really “announced” itself this year. For me, it accelerated in my attention once Siemens and Nvidia announced their partnership to explore the Industrial Metaverse in early July.

The announcement came at the launch of Siemens Xcelerator, a digital platform and having both announcements made at the same event had a more extensive “bang” with the more attention-grabbing one, announcing the Industrial Metaverse partnership, in my view, overshadowed the other, the Siemens Xcelerator, which forms the Siemens building block towards this industrial future and the essentials required of a digital platform to accelerate any businesses digital transformation.

“Siemens Xcelerator is an open digital business platform that will accelerate digital transformation. Now companies of all sizes can access the digital technologies to transform how they compete, collaborate and connect“- Siemens website.

Through this open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator is featuring and building a curated portfolio of IoT-enabled hardware and software, a powerful ecosystem of partners, and a marketplace.

The journey is moving towards the Industrial Metaverse and I see it evolving in this way

Building the Innovation Ecosystem narrative

December 7, 2022Posted inBusiness Ecosystems, Ecosystems, Innovation Ecosystems, Network & Collaborating Effects, Platforms, Value Creation Dynamics, Value Designing
Building out the Innovation Ecosystem narrative

There needs to be a fundamental shift in how we manage innovation, which needs ecosystem thinking and design. Not only in thinking and design but in how we structure its architecture, one based on platforms, open apps, and a marketplace for selection appropriate for the innovation delivery intention. This needs to be in open, highly collaborative ecosystems.

We need a better conceptual framework to build, one based on knowledge-based intelligence and well-grounded, driven by dynamic and constant interactions, events and processes, so all involved can be engaged in building solutions that have fresh impact and value within the market space identified.

My mind map of the over-arching aims of a new innovation narrative is shown below.