What can companies learn from SAP's efforts to build a scalable ecosystem at the edge of its enterprise?
- Effective ecosystems generate differentiation and specialization
- Ecosystems evolve over time, but the orchestrator plays a key role in seeding and feeding participant initiatives
- Robust ecosystems are helpful to individuals, not just institutions
- Robust ecosystems require mobilizing large numbers of specialized third parties, not just the vendor and its customers
- Ecosystems at the edge bleed into the core of the enterprise
- Ecosystems are not just about connecting to existing resources--they help provide platforms for distributed innovation and learning
- Effective ecosystems generate differentiation and specialization
- Ecosystems evolve over time, but the orchestrator plays a key role in seeding and feeding participant initiatives
- Robust ecosystems are helpful to individuals, not just institutions
- Robust ecosystems require mobilizing large numbers of specialized third parties, not just the vendor and its customers
- Ecosystems at the edge bleed into the core of the enterprise
- Ecosystems are not just about connecting to existing resources--they help provide platforms for distributed innovation and learning
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