Purpose – This article identifies a new transactional system–the business ecosystem. It describes the characteristics and drivers of these complex webs of interdependent enterprises and other participants which create unique value through synergistic relationships....

Purpose: The IBM Institute for Business Value, which has been conducting Global Chief Executive Officers studies for 15 years, has been reporting on CEO concerns about business and economic disruption and described their efforts to respond to it. But surprisingly, in the 2018 study CEOs also...

Purpose To better understand the challenges and opportunities facing China, the IBM Institute for Business Value in cooperation with Oxford Economics surveyed 1,150 executives from across China. Survey respondents represented a variety of industries and included executives from Chinese...

Purpose This report by the IBM Institute for Business Value, part of long-term study of C-suite executives, probes the perspectives of the 818 CEOs to find out what they think the future will bring and how they’re positioning their organizations to prosper in the “age of disruption.”...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find out what exactly the term business model innovation encompasses and what type yields the best results. Design/methodology/approach – IBM Consulting researchers first identified the main types of business model innovation, which can be used alone...

Purpose – Business‐model innovation is critical to success in today's increasingly complex and fast‐changing environment. So corporate leaders need to understand when to adapt the business model and how to execute the change. This paper aims to address this issue....

Purpose – Companies are now struggling to cope with the most severe recession in more than half a century. This paper aims to study how leading companies have successfully reacted to the crisis. Design/methodology/approach – The researchers identified early winners in the current recession,...

Purpose: A recent IBM Institute of Business Value (IBV) global survey of 3,450 business leaders, conducted during the full force of the pandemic, explored which business capabilities executives are prioritizing, and how they ranked familiar concerns: cost management and cash flow management....