As it happens, the critical divide is between the enterprise and its ecosystem, the IT being a part of what is commonly known as enterprise architecture.
That understanding has consequences for enterprise governance (how to read environments and seize opportunities) and systems engineering (how to manage objectives, organization and IT on a continuous basis).
https://caminao.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/empathy2abstraction/
Conference Paper Towards Understanding Requirements Engineering in IT Ecosystems
The ECO-Systems are living systems and have to be maintained permanently by a team of IT Specialists a n d ECO Specialists.
They have to be in living contact daily.....and meet themselves personally in periodic intervals.
In General ECO-System and IT-System should be connected as tight as possible.
I think this would only fully work if the user communities were part of the IT build, for example users should do their own applications within a framework of the IT and they will do their own mashing of data with these applications. Then you can create an ECO-System that can self organize and do work arounds as necessary.
OK, so it is the question: Who is the "ECO-System"? If you combine all users into it and give free creation to them you are in danger, that your system is soon not usable,
I think an ECO-System should be maintained by an internal ECO-Team which takes care on economic goals. They give orders to the IT-Specialists.
So it is in most IT-companies....
Franz I understand your comments but I have been studying for some time now how networks really run in the natural order of creation and what has been found by physicists is that scale free networks have a much better rate of survival than do controlled networks. The reason behind this is that the individual nodes make choices to bolster the overall network. Having a central control eliminates this possibility but having a central intent of the network is very important for self-organization. So, my comment is to change the focus to building the intent and not the controls. If you find a selfish node within the system, it will be purged by work arounds and eventually morphed out of the network, that is if you set it up correctly but controls will burden the organization even more as politics become the game instead of the survival of the organization. I feel this paradigm change will happen and the early adopters will truly benefit.
Ronald it may be helpful for everyone if you could point us to an introductory or other paper that describes your approach? Thanks, Simon
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