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Winning the Right Game with Ron Adner

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Dec 9, 2021
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ANECDOTE

Kodak Won The Wrong Game

  • Kodak successfully transitioned to become a leading seller of digital cameras and printers in the 2000s.
  • They later went bankrupt because winning digital printing proved to be the wrong game once ubiquitous connected screens displaced printing.
INSIGHT

Define Ecosystems By Value Interdependence

  • An ecosystem is the structure of interdependence that assembles activities to deliver a new value proposition.
  • You need ecosystem thinking when that structure is being reformed, not for stable industry supply chains.
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Avoid Firm-Centric Ecosystem Traps

  • Anchor strategy in the value proposition to avoid firm-centric ecosystem traps.
  • Defining ecosystems around a company's brand risks missing where your role actually sits in delivering customer value.
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