Outra vez os ecossistemas

Para quem gosta de recorrer ao paralelismo entre biologia e a economia:

"Our business metaphors have historically been drawn largely from machinery and engineering, warfare and the military, and competitive sports and games. These remain apt in many ways - but in increasingly dynamic, collaborative, interdependent situations, they might mislead just as much as they inform.
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Ecosystems thinking provides a new frame and mindset that captures a profound shift in the economy and the business landscape. The importance of relationships, partnerships, networks, alliances, and collaborations is obviously not novel - but it is growing. As it becomes increasingly possible for firms to deploy and activate assets they neither own nor control, to engage and mobilize larger and larger numbers of participants, and to facilitate much more complex coordination of their
expertise and activities, the art of the possible is expanding rapidly."
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Ecosystems are dynamic and  co-evolving communities of diverse actors who create and capture new value through increasingly sophisticated models of both collaboration and competition."

Trecho retirado de "Business ecosystems come of age " publicado por Deloitte University Press.

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