The Civic Ecosystem Alliance: Ecosystenomics

 

Why the Economics of Ecosystems Are the Only Way to Unlock the Full Potential of the Digital Society

Two weeks ago I debuted my ideas for the Vancouver Ecosystem Alliance Pilot Project. The response was well beyond anything I could have imagined. This wasn't just the response to the blog and share on LinkedIn that blew me away, it was the amazing people that showed support for a project I'd been very nervous about debuting. 

This in turn had a cascade effect on the types of resources that would now come to my attention that a performance ecosystem are requires to compete for in order to gain relevance in the market.
This in turn provided me with fresh ways to accelerate the growth of the Civic Ecosystem Alliance by seeding other city's pilot projects in parallel. 
The market for an ecosystematic approach to our civic economies was much stronger than I had anticipated!
Now the questions become, are cities and their citizens ready for my brand of ecosystem economics?

Scaling a high performance ecosystem for transforming civic economies is vastly different than small scale ecosystems that often naturally form around a product or a company or an industry.
Or platform ecosystems for that matter, like an Amazon or a Facebook. 
Performance at this scale involves thousands of businesses from multi-nationals to sole-proprietorship and everything in-between working interdependently to produce high value for clients within well designed platform based user-interface at "ground" level of a city. 

Ecosystenomics is the understanding of the value capture of these interdependencies at multi-granular levels. 
In order to capture and share the value of these interdependencies, the platform's network must have extraordinarily high levels of trust. The greater the network's trust, the greater the conditions for emergence properties that will enable systematic breakthroughs for economic performance. 

This level of trust requires a much different types of relationships between consumers and the markets they frequent. For the ecosystem designer, attaining the optimal conditions for trust in networks for enabling quality economic performance is the main guiding principle. 

To achieve these conditions, cities and the businesses that serve them along with their citizens and customers,  will be looking for the right incentives to bring the right combinations of people together that can form the network structure that create high trust, high performing economic networks. 

The Civic Ecosystem Alliance is my vision based on decades of research on how to create the right incentives and vehicles for developing high trust, high performance strategic networks for economic impact at the civic ecosystem level. 

The World Needs You

Yes, you.
Odds are, you are far too modest to realise we are talking to you.
You are one of the millions of unsung heroes that make the world's real economy function every day. 

We're not talking about the financial economy that is covered by the financial press. 
We are talking about the real economy that happens every single day in cities, towns and communities every single minute of every single day. That economy. 

You are the "you" we are trying to reach.
You run businesses big or small, you work in health care, you build things from bridges to custom homes, you create experiences from music to movies, from gameware to business models, you maintain our buildings, our streets, our infrastructure. You work to protect us from cyber-criminals to thieves at all levels. We work in government, we volunteer for churches, soccer, fund raisers, public policy. 

We are the 10% that make or break performance in civic economies the world over, the 10% the eyes of the economic lens cannot see. 

Yet you are the difference. Every day. 

The Purpose of the Civic Ecosystem Alliance: How To Design and Develop a High Performance Ecosystem

Our purpose, our mission is simple. To design and develop the platform for hosting the ecosystenomic conditions where the world's best performers across the entire civic economic spectrum will excel in ways they cannot in the current industrial era business ecosystems they are constrained by. 

This is both much harder...and much simpler than it sounds! 

Simpler, in that we have an incredible body of work and practitioners for designing and developing such a platform, and for creating systematic performance.
This isn't about working harder, it is working smarter. 
We already have everything we need to create such a platform where we can accelerate our productive growth free of the shackles of the industrial institutions. 
In other words, we have the networks and the knowledge to design higher performing networks. 

This part is easy. 

What's the hard part? Convincing ourselves to invest in ourselves. 

That's our collective and individual hurdles we must overcome.
My job as the Lead Ecosystem Orchestrator is to convince enough of you to take The Leap. 

The leap to invest in ourselves so we can create the environments where we best excel. To create the environments where we own the means of our own production. 
High performance ecosystems are in essence "mesh capitalism", performance networks that own themselves through tokens and cryptocurrencies. 

Enter the Ecosystem Business Broadcast Network

What is Media? 

Media is a broadcast means to introduce two halves of the market to one another.
Buyers to sellers, sellers to buyers.
This two way dynamic covers everything from ideas to toasters. From services to experiences to policies to lifestyles to education to jobs to be done. 
Media is how we connect this multi-dimensional market and how we understand the world through its lens. 

In the digital economy, the medium is the message, the territory is the map. 

The Ecosystem Business Broadcast Network will be how we communicate with our ecosystem markets to continuously learn how to design, develop and build new businesses and models for our offerings back into the market. 

The Ecosystem Business Broadcast Network is how we communicate our culture and how our culture works to create continuous value in open and closed networks. 
To be successful our broadcast network needs to be effective at capturing the attention of our best economic performers that fit our ecosystenomic philosophy, and in turning our captive actions into high market value. 
To be successful as a broadcast network for the Civic Ecosystem Alliance, we have to bring our economic vision to billions around the world as means to raise their standards of living. 

Stars Are Born

As we are barely a gleam in anyone's eyes just yet, I am looking for high performers who will be the "stars" of the Ecosystem Business Broadcast Network. 

You bridge that world between the very top of your profession and the ability to communicate to your network a vision for moving a product or service along an "assembly line" (your business model) of some sort that brings above average returns. 
You already understand the power of networks and your ability to orchestrate them. 

As a "Star" within the Civic Ecosystem Alliance using the Ecosystem Business Broadcast Network, "we" will be reaching a potential market of 2-3 billion other market participants in the economies of cities. 

By growing an Ecosystenomic network we can shape the narrative for what a healthy, sustainable economy can work like for 9-10 billion people by 2050. 
By growing an Ecosystenomic network of hundreds of millions of high performing people and teams, we will be designing the future of work which in turn designs the future of business and the future of our relationship between business and society. 

An Ecosystenomic economy rewards the efforts of all the people who make cities the greatest form of human organisation and experience. People are what make cities great, and cities are what make people great. 

Healthy prosperous cities and citizens are the key to a sustainable economy. Understanding these economies as the ecosystems that they are is how we will achieve systematic breakthroughs in network performance and raising the standards of living for billions of citizens the world over. 

Become the Star Performer the world needs right now by joining the teams at the Ecosystem Business Broadcast Network!