Strategy
Ecosystem Mapping
Map your product or service's ecosystem. Visualize actors, stakeholders, and their interactions. This reveals complexity and pinpoints where you can make impactful changes.
Duration
1 hour
Group Size
4-10
Category
Strategy
Difficulty
Easy
The goals are to understand the system, identify stakeholders and their relationships, discover leverage points, and reveal dependencies.
- Mapped ecosystem.
- Visualized relationships.
- Understood context.
Start simple. Add complexity gradually. Mapping everything at once creates chaos. Use color-coding consistently (e.g., blue for customers, red for competitors). Sticky notes allow rearranging. This exercise often reveals unexpected connections. It's great for strategic planning and partnership identification. It can be overwhelming. Manage the scope. Consider mapping specific sub-systems. Update regularly as the ecosystem evolves. Photo documentation is essential.
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