getty Digital business models are revolutionizing how leaders conduct business. This is not just a technology industry phenomenon but one that reaches across industries. With your car having more computing power than your phone from ten years ago, is there any doubt that many industries are heavily technology dependent? Understanding how digital business works makes it clear how Southwest Airlines’ 2022 “ holiday meltdown ” was actually a technology meltdown. As we transform into digital business models, we also need to transform our business ecosystems in order to implement and sustain these new technologies. In doing so, we become strategically dependent on ecosystem partnering. Ecosystem Partnering One of the best practices in developing a partnering capability is doing a periodic assessment of that capability so you know where you can improve and shore up weaknesses. The same is true of ecosystems, which are communities of partnerships. But there are some key differences when assessing partnering capability within ecosystems. While there are many partnering assessments out there that help address partnering capability on a bilateral basis, I have yet to see any that are oriented toward assessing capacity and maturity within an ecosystem. To create an assessment along these lines, […]