The Ecosystem Pattern

Crises reveal challenges embedded in contemporary rigid business models especially vividly. However, the change in consumer behavior is perpetual even in stable conditions. For example, demand for accountability of products and services is constantly increasing.Efficiently meeting the evolving consumer demand is challenging for enterprises within a market perceived solely as a battlefield for market shares. For enterprises, It is necessary to find novel means to adapt operations. In an open business ecosystem, enterprises form a digital value network and formulate value-generating compositions shared by multiple organizations. This novel networked model is The Ecosystem Pattern.This report reflects the open business ecosystem to supply chains and business platform models. In a platform business model, actors create value together under a central organization. In a conventional supply chain, customer value is created individually per se. The vulnerability of a supply chain is in its rigidity and specialization. For platforms, the greatest challenge is a distortion of market-based competition by a strong central control point.A transition from supply chains to platform business is a mandatory intermediate phase before the eventuality of the consumer-centric value revolution. Open business ecosystem emphasizes holistic networked value generation over the emphasis on individual actors, of which The Ecosystem Pattern is the first systemic description. The open business ecosystem does not have an owner or definite organization. It is open for any actor, completely market-based, and actualized through business data that is open and shared. Value generating networks within the open business ecosystem are flexible and temporal compositions. Flexible networks and enterprises operating as a part of them can react to consumer demand more efficiently than defined networks. The open business ecosystem contains diverse resources-as-a-service, utilized to compose networked value propositions.The Ecosystem Pattern is a systemic abstraction of a digital open business ecosystem architecture. The Ecosystem Pattern describes a novel strategic framework developing both the individual organizations and the entire business system. In The Ecosystem Pattern, business operations formulate locally and scale from small interactions into global phenomena through repeating and reapplying The Ecosystem Pattern