True or false? Digital ecosystems

Answers:

1. False: While competitive risk is the concern most often raised in boardrooms, the real constraints are integration complexity, legacy infrastructure, and lack of shared rules.
2. Also false: According to the report, which included data gathered from a global survey of 275 senior leaders across 12 industries, leaders see strategic value in ecosystems, but operational behavior lags significantly and AI is rarely deployed – just 3% say it is the backbone of ecosystem coordination.
3. False again! Orchestrators report higher value than participants across all stages of value creation, delivery, and capture, but it’s not the only path to value. Participants who invest in both strong governance and broad collaboration report value scores on par with orchestrators – suggesting that what organizations do with their ecosystem position matters more than the position itself.
4. This is another misconception. Even for industrial organizations, which are among the most active digital ecosystem participants, sustainability remains the lowest-scoring ecosystem benefit.
5. True! The organizations that stand to gain most from the next wave of development are likely to be those that solve the unglamorous problems currently preventing ecosystems from delivering on their promise: governance structures aligned across partners, deeper data sharing, and the capability to collaborate broadly across diverse partner types.