As I announced in my last post, the next few contributions of this blog will dig deeper into each of the nine capabilities which I see as essential for succeeding in business ecosystems. Let’s start with a particularly tricky one – the one I call decentration competence. A couple of years ago we conducted a global […]
Large and global organizations have distinctive challenges that come with size and reach. While they usually enjoy advantages of scale, vast resources, global brand recognition, and political clout, they also often struggle with the structural symptoms of the “elephant disease”: High organizational complexity, bureaucracy and inertia, political infighting, a culture of silos, slow response times to changing market conditions, […]
