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Big Tech: Time For A ‘New Platform Deal’?
For most of us, the Covid-19 crisis has been truly abysmal. But for Big Tech, it’s actually been pretty good, if markets are anything to...

Michael G. Jacobides
Jul 25, 2020
Goodbye business as usual
Ecosystems are not a fad or a sexy buzzword. They reflect a true paradigm shift in business. They are a genuinely new organisational...

Michael G. Jacobides
Oct 30, 2019
In the Ecosystem Economy, What’s Your Strategy?
When Nestlé was preparing to go mainstream with Nespresso, its single-use espresso capsule, it knew that users would need a machine...

Michael G. Jacobides
Sep 1, 2019
How Business Ecosystems Rise (and Often Fall)
Ecosystems are increasingly popular, fueled by the success of iconic examples such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. Yet confusion...

Michael G. Jacobides
Jul 30, 2019
The Myths and Realities of Business Ecosystems
In annual reports, the term ecosystem occurs 13 times more frequently now than it did a decade ago. But like any buzzword, it’s often...

Michael G. Jacobides
Feb 25, 2019
Platforms and Ecosystems: Enabling the Digital Economy
Digital platforms are expanding across economies, reshaping the business models of a wide range of industries, from finance and...

Michael G. Jacobides
Feb 1, 2019
The four building blocks of transformation
If you are a business leader, you are probably thinking about radical change. New industrial platforms, geopolitical shifts, global...

David Lancefield
Oct 22, 2018
Towards a theory of ecosystems
Research Summary: The recent surge of interest in “ecosystems” in strategy research and practice has mainly focused on what ecosystems...

Carmelo Cennamo
May 2, 2018
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