Business Ecosystem Essay

1.Critical Essay

[This is a critical essay, remember to include everything an essay should have e.g., introductions and conclusions. The following are key questions that you need to address for this assessment task and should act as a guide for you to complete the assignment. Feel free to leave the headings as they are or change them to reflect your writing style. Each section should also flow seamlessly, remember to carefully structure your paragraphs as well]

1.1What are the results and insights of your research and strategic analysis?

• You would have undertaken a thorough strategic analysis in Assignment 1. Carefully summarise the key insights of this analysis here – leading into the open innovation/ecosystem strategy next.

1.2 What open innovation/ecosystem strategy do you propose and how does it embed your two previous innovation recommendations?

• This is where you need to explicate how exactly your recommendations in Assignment 1 relate to open innovation/ecosystems approaches to innovation and its management. Remember to support all claims with empirical work.

1.2.1 Recommendation 1: [insert recommendation name here]

1.2.2 Recommendation 2: [insert recommendation name here]

1.3How do you suggest this open innovation/ecosystem strategy be implemented?

• How would you implement the strategies listed. Remember to support every claim with empirical work.

1.3.1 Recommendation 1: [insert recommendation name here]

1.3.2 Recommendation 2: [insert recommendation name here]

1.4How and why is it likely to make the organization more competitive in the digital and collaborative era?

1.4.1 Recommendation 1: [insert recommendation name here]

1.4.2 Recommendation 2: [insert recommendation name here]

2. Reflective Essay

• [This is a reflective essay on your journey in your group project i.e., Assessment Two. You are required to reflect on your strengths, limitations and specific contributions to the group project, and devise strategies of how to address your limitations and build upon your strengths as an innovation team player. Review the assignment requirements for more information on what to include here.]

2.1 Strengths, limitations, and contributions

• This is primarily about your experience leading up to and through the group assignment. Discuss what your strengths, limitations and contributions were. Try not to be too general/vague here, keep the critical analysis of your experience focus towards a thorough understanding of the strengths, limitations and contributions.
• Hint: contributions aren’t just about which parts of the assignment you were responsible for completing, these can also include specific skill/capability sets that helped undertake the assessment task itself.

2.2 Self-critique and feed forward

• This section builds a picture of the proposed strategies to address your limitations and leverage your strengths. You should take care to consider your own biases and assumptions here as well.
• Hint: feel free to reference various sources that demonstrate how well your strategy will actually help to address your limitations and leverage your strengths moving into the future.