Chapter 1 - The concept of Business Ecosystems Flashcards

1
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What does the acronym PESTEL stand for?

A

Political, Environment, Social, Technology, Ecological, Legal

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What are the 5 threats that PESTEL help us understand?

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Competitive Rivalry
Threat of new entrants
Threat from substitutes
Power of buyers
Power of suppliers

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3
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What is competitive rivalry?

A

Rivals drive down prices and force you to
improve quality to compete, driving up costs

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4
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What is Threats of New Entrants?

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New entrants also drive down prices.
‘Barriers to entry’ are key.

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5
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What is Threat from substitutes?

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Substitutes put a cap on prices and, again, can
drive quality improvements to stay competitive.

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6
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What is the power of buyers?

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Powerful customers can negotiate lower prices
and higher quality

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What is power of suppliers?

A

Powerful suppliers can insist on high prices,
driving up costs

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8
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What are you if you have low cost and a broad target?

A

Cost Leadership

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9
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What are you if you have high cost and a broad target?

A

Differentiation

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10
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What are you if you have low cost and a narrow target?

A

Cost + focus

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11
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What are you if you have high cost and narrow target?

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Differentiation + focus

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12
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What are some examples of technologies driving change?

A

Social Media
The internet of things
Mobile Device
User interfaces
AI and machine learning
Big data and analytics
Cloud Technology
Bio and nano-technologies
Digital Assets
Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies
Blockchain

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13
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What is the ‘internet of things’?

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Smart meters for gas and electricity

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14
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What does bio and non tech enable?

A

new products such as ‘wearable tech’

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15
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What can bitcoin and cryptocurrencies help with?

A

making secure payments without using banks

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16
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What are the typical areas of change with tech?

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Rapid changes in customer expectations
New types of products and services
New business models
Market disruption

17
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What types of environments are emerging technologies creating?

A

Connected and Open
Simple and intelligent
Fast and scalable

18
Q

What is an ecosystem?

A

A complex web of interdependent enterprises and relationships aimed to create and allocate business value

19
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What are two things that both ecosystems and traditional markets composed of?

A

Participants - the individual players or organisations
Interactions - the products or services exchanged among participants

20
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What are the three components of participants?

A

Role (within the environment)
Reach (through the environment)
Capability (or key value proposition)

21
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What are the three components of interactions?

A

Rules (or principles governing conduct within the environment)
Connections (of elements, such as data, knowledge or products)
Course (of interactions - speed and direction at which content or value is exchanged)

22
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What are the defining characteristics of ecosystems?

A

Mutuality - ecosystems only exist because participants can deliver more value acting together for the mutual benefit
Orchestration - the coordination, management and arrangement of
complex environments, their participants and interactions.

23
Q

What is value creation?

A

Bringing something of value into existence

24
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What is value capture?

A

the act or process of appropriating or allocating value

25
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What is value creation in traditional markets?

A

Value creation is incremental and focusses on covering costs and gaining returns

26
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What is value capture in traditional markets?

A

Value capture is additive, sequential and based on
exchanges

27
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What is value creation in Ecosystems?

A

Value creation is collaborative. Ecosystems create
more value as a whole, than the sum of individual
participants acting independently

28
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What is value capture in ecosystems?

A

Value capture reflects a networked, dynamic,
everyone-to-everyone process of exchange

29
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What is high complexity?

A

Barriers to entry are high and threat of new entrants is low. Roles are relatively secure/difficult to replicate

30
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What is low complexity?

A

Barriers to entry are low and the threat of new entrants is high. Roles are vulnerable/easy to replicate.

31
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What is tight orchestration?

A

Orchestrators have an ability to influence behaviour or actions across the entire ecosystem

32
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What is loose orchestration?

A

No individual participant has significant influence across the ecosystem

33
Q

If something has high complexity but loose orchestration what is it described as?

A

Hornet’s Nest
Fragmented Competition

34
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If something has high complexity and tight orchestration what is it described as?

A

Lion’s Pride
Winner-take-all

35
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If something has low complexity and loose orchestration what is it described as?

A

Shark Tank
Turbulent environment

36
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If something has low complexity but tight orchestration what is it described as?

A

Wolf Pack
Collaboration

37
Q

What are some of the challenges of regulating ecosystems?

A

Speed of changes
Innovators find ‘back doors’
Ecosystems evolve
Innovations cross lines of jurisdictions

38
Q

What do digital customers want?

A

Contextualised interactions
Seamless experience across channels
Anytime, anywhere
Great service
Self service
Transparency
Peer reviews/advocacy

39
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How do we keep ahead of customer expectations?

A

Design thinking e.g. designing experiences rather than products/services
Experiential pilots e.g. reactions, emotional and behavioural
Prototyping e.g. first generation product may only be 80% ready
Brand Atomization - The ability to tell multiple stories in many ways by producing content in pieces big and
small