{"id":5019,"date":"2022-04-16T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.horsesforsources.com\/oneecosystem_032622\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T19:31:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T19:31:05","slug":"oneecosystem_032622","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/oneecosystem_032622\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re already living in OneEcosystem, and if you don’t yet realize it, you may be out of the game"},"content":{"rendered":"
Even before the pandemic, business decision-makers were looking for new and unique ways to achieve growth in an increasingly connected, rapidly changing, unpredictable and complex business environment. The current global crisis intensifies the need for businesses to cooperate with each other more broadly and develop new business models to stay in the game.<\/em><\/p>\n Enterprise innovation is moving beyond the walls of an organization as the \u201cOneEcosystem\u201d emerges, where like-minded organizations with common objectives collaborate to find entirely new sources of value. We introduced the concept of the \u201cOneEcosystem\u201d earlier this year (read here<\/a>), and now we are double-clicking on it:<\/p>\n Click to Enlarge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOneOffice\u201d is the core of the \u201cOneEcosystem\u201d as people and culture even trump technology in today’s talent-starved environment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n While \u201cdigital transformation\u201d focuses on resolving (often) decades of technology debt<\/em>, the OneOffice mindset (end-to-end organizational alignment across the front, middle, and back offices to drive a great stakeholder experience) allows enterprise leaders to manage the ballooning talent and process debt<\/em> that continues to be overlooked by many.\u00a0 It is one thing to invest in the shiny new tech, but if you fail to bring your people together with shared goals and incentives, motivated by a common set of values and mission, you will struggle to survive in today’s business environment.\u00a0 The pendulum has swung firmly towards talent and culture over technology in most organizations that are hurrying into this new future.<\/p>\n The clearest barometer that shows the major changes facing Global 2000 enterprises over the next 12-18 months (see below) are the clear priorities to develop \u201cDigitally Fluent\u201d workforces to be best equipped to function effectively in the cloud.<\/p>\n Digital Fluency describes the ability to drive the seamless interplay between business and technology:<\/p>\n Click to Enlarge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Enterprise Success = CX + EX + PX<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In our obsession to deliver the best CX in pre-pandemic days, we ignored EX, and the current talent retention predicament which is creating unprecedented challenges to keeping many enterprises functioning. Hopefully, the \u201cGreat Resignation\u201d has already become the burning platform in 2022 to resolve our talent equation as enterprise leaders. But we are still missing an important stakeholder \u2013 the PX (Partner Experience). No-one-can-be-everything-to-anyone and the OneEcosystem brings our partners to the forefront, along with customers and employees.<\/p>\n Enterprise innovation is also defined at the intersection of Customers, Employees, and Partners.<\/p>\n \u201cData-as-an-asset\u201d is the OneEcosystem strategy and rapid technological innovation is making it a reality<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The scalability, flexibility, and faster speed-to-market promised by a hybrid cloud and edge computing environment is allowing enterprises to get a handle on their large underlying data-sets that previously required huge investments in storage and servers. Machine Learning (ML) and more advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms allow enterprises to make sense of their humongous data-sets that makes humans far more efficient, drive data-based decisions, and enable autonomous processes. The emergence of blockchains is starting to make the vision of OneEcosystem\u00a0a reality by enabling distributed and trustworthy information. Blockchain\u2019s \u201csix-pack\u201d makes it an attractive ecosystem technology – distributed shared data, automated smart contracts, hash-based cryptography, consensus-driven trust, permissioned and permissionless options, and immutable transactions. Ubiquitous connectivity from 5G with much faster speed and lower latency allows for the creation of virtual networks where large amounts of data can be shared at real-time speed.\u00a0 The exciting emergence of Web 3.0 will allow further allow decentralization of data.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t forget culture and mindset<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n The pandemic has further exacerbated the need for ecosystems. The escalating global crisis requires us to cooperate with each other and develop new models that enable us to succeed as a society. Post the pandemic shock, the individualistic capitalist economy (where shareholder value supersedes stakeholder value) is also starting to get questioned. People want to partner with (or work for) organizations that have a purpose beyond profit, whether it\u2019s aligned to philanthropic goals and\/or highly invested in sustainability or diversity or other purposes.<\/p>\n Organizations must be designed to develop a sense of community<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Organizations will become more networked (decentralized and flexible where managers coordinate both internal and external relationships), matrixed (where people with similar skills are pooled together, resulting in more than one manager), and flatter (eliminating many levels of middle management). Finding common ground and designing shared goals and incentives for all partners are critical success factors to establish the OneEcosystem.<\/p>\n The Chief Executive Officer\u00a0should be the leader who drives the infinite mindset<\/em> across the organization and its ecosystem<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n He\/she must continuously define the purpose for the organization and relentlessly drive a fearless collaborative culture that values stakeholder value beyond shareholder value.\u00a0 As a leader, it\u2019s so easy to obsess with operational functions of the business during times of disruption or distress – in this case, a global pandemic \u2013 that it can create knee-jerk, often short-term decisions that could inherently damage your long-term vision, your business\u2019 culture and your raison d’\u00eatre<\/em>.\u00a0 With no defined time horizon, no clearly-defined rules, and with players that may enter and exit at any time, the primary objective of an infinite game is quite simply to keep playing. The goal for businesses is to have the will and resources to stay in the game<\/em>, through thick and thin.<\/p>\n \u00a0 Click to Enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Having lived and worked through four recessions, we understand the rapid change in leadership mindset that can occur when a firm goes from peacetime and growth to one of survival and all-out war.\u00a0 According to author Simon Sinek<\/a>, people look to leadership to serve and protect, to \u201cset up their organizations to succeed beyond their lifetimes.\u201d But in the modern landscape, most organizations place an unbalanced focus on near-term results that may ultimately prove to be self-defeating, like casting aside your umbrella in a storm because you haven\u2019t been getting wet. In short, business is no finite endeavor. This pandemic lays plain for all to see the game we are really playing.<\/p>\n The CEO is the ultimate collaborator<\/em>, forcing the change that is needed and balancing the desires of the various stakeholders (the board, key clients, key partners, the employees).\u00a0 His\/her team to make this happen must be responsible for the full gamut of their customers, employees, and partners, working with a transformational wizard to bring together the process and technology with the real innovation ingredient:\u00a0 the people.<\/p>\n The Chief Transformation Officer\u00a0must link front to back office and ensure processes run smoothly across functions to deliver the data\/outcomes the organization needs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This should ideally be someone who understands the challenges of enterprise operations, and how to align them with the market facing\/client impact areas of the firm.\u00a0 Forget the old GBS head \/ shared services head role, as this just has repeatedly failed to get out of the transactional back-office world and the \u201cfinance factory\u201d. This person must oversee both technology and operations, understand the value of automation and AI, be able to design and implement change programs and work closely with the employee experience leader to eliminate the back office mindset from antiquated business functions into one that is aligned with the direction of the business.<\/p>\n The Chief Customer Experience Officer\u00a0lives and breathes the world of the customers and obsesses with how to engage <\/em>them as effectively as possible \u2013 right across the entire customer life-cycle<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This ideally is someone who understands how to design customer interfaces, how to service customer needs leveraging both<\/em> digital tools and physical support and ensuring the entire employee base is unified around (and incentivized on) driving customer impact.\u00a0 In addition, the CCXO must ensure the marketing mindset is to communicate with the customer, educate the customer, and to develop specific programs that have a real impact on driving customer engagement and business growth.<\/p>\n The Chief Employee Experience Officer is\u00a0responsible for making the company a great, energizing place to work, where staff of all backgrounds, ages, experience levels cultures are energized by the values and desired outcomes of the firm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This individual must be the person who can manage the expectations of the board, the CEO, the shareholders to create a company culture and values that everyone believes in.\u00a0 Moreover, the CEXO must be intimately involved in the creation and execution of training programs across the firm to attract talent who want to work for a company that will develop them, as well as establishing a culture and values they can identify with.\u00a0 This should ideally be a strong leader with broad experience of the business and staff development, who knows what it takes to be successful, and who understands how to motivate people beyond pure compensation.\u00a0 The best leaders today are also great people managers \u2013 and the CEXO role must be at the core of the business leadership, not some ancillary executive painting lip service and not having any real impact.<\/p>\n Chief Partner Experience Officer must become a prominent leader in the OneEcosystem\u00a0organization<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n As the OneEcosystem environment evolves, the need to collaborate with entities with common objectives, across the entire customer value chain, has never been so prominent.\u00a0Net-net, your partners are no longer just your suppliers. Suppliers are essential partners to deliver your goods\/services, but the OneEcosystem looks at the collective organizations more holistically, where they play critical roles in providing the customer experience across the entire customer lifecycle.<\/p>\n Bottom line: EcoSystem is not some sci-fi movie. It is happening right now<\/span>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Building a successful ecosystem strategy is challenging. Creating the elusive network effect is not easy. Then there are regulatory and compliance issues, fear of the loss of proprietary information, and concern over the ability of competitors to cooperate. However, these challenges are not insurmountable if there is a business case, shared goals, and common purpose. Consider the following examples:<\/p>\n OneEcosystem is unraveling right in front of our eyes if we are willing to open them and see the change.Don\u2019t be an ostrich with your head in the sand. Start collaborating. Get going. 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