Driving Growth in Digital Ecosystems

Developing the right capabilities for digital partnering is key to getting value from your ecosystem strategy.

Ina M. Sebastian, Peter Weill, and Stephanie L. Woerner

August 18, 2020

High-growth companies don’t go it alone. Increasingly, they are achieving results by creating and orchestrating digitally connected ecosystems — coordinated networks of enterprises, devices, and customers — that create value for all of their participants.¹

Companies whose dominant business model is ecosystem driver — in both B2B and B2C domains, such as energy management, home ownership, and financial services — experienced revenue growth approximately 27 percentage points higher than the average for their industries, ...