Comments on: Two things I’m thinking about

By: teteferiutta

teteferiutta — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:46:35 +0000

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By: Make your product part of a system - PCM

Make your product part of a system - PCM — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:41:26 +0000

[...] Peter Merholz provides two good examples. First, the Apple music universe — iPod, iTunes music management, iTunes store. Though there may be different product managers in charge of each of those, customers expect them to work together seamlessly. Second, Flickr, whose success is due to “how it fits within an existing digital photo ecosystem, and adds value by helping coordinate these disparate elements of the ecosystem.” [...]

By: Сергей

Сергей — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:12:42 +0000

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By: Alan Rudy

Alan Rudy — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:05:53 +0000

I strikes me that, if you are going to take an ECOsystems view seriously then chapters from Levins and Lewontin’s Dialectical Biologist are key. In particular, they argue that niches are as actively constructed as much by species/products as they are passively presented (or actively produced) by the environment and that — as is implied in your piece — forms of mutualism are as important to success as forms of competition are.

By: Gene

Gene — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:15:25 +0000

There was a good article in HBR a couple of years back about Microsoft’s ecosystem approach (here’s a Working Knowledge extract: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/3967.html). They’re probably a better example of success through systems thinking than Apple, though not as appealing to designers.

(Plug: my IA Summit session this year is on Rich Mapping, a technique for building conceptual models of systems… in the Jay Forrester sense of systems.)