Ecosystem Modeling Framework v2.0.0 (GB1032)

A business ecosystem can be viewed as an organized system of actors/participants incentivized to create and work together for mutual benefit. As organizations become increasingly digital, connected, and instrumented, the potential for business ecosystems to generate increased collective benefit becomes clearer. CSPs play a vital role in both components. First by enabling critical components of network infrastructure for use in multi-actor/participant distributed systems. Second, by developing and making available the programmatic components that enable new value to be developed and sustained by the broader ecosystem community.  This document introduces the CSPs’ role in future digital ecosystems, an Ecosystem Framework Model that assists organizations to evaluate the value potential of a particular ecosystem play.