Business Ecosystem Alliance

Get to know one of the 2024 Zero Distance Excellence Award winners – Epoch, a high-tech design and manufacturing company with operations in California and China, employing about 180 people. At Epoch, employees work in fluid, customer-centric teams organized into three waves, with roles replacing traditional job descriptions and profit-sharing based on loyalty, responsibility, and peer evaluations. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dgDgqYmd #BusinessEcosystemAlliance #ZeroDX #ZeroDistance #ecosystems

We had the pleasure to give one of this year’s Zero Distance Excellence Awards to Codewave a design-led technology development services company that has completed over 400 digital transformation projects globally. At Codewave, teams operate under a self-management framework known as 'BeYourOwnBoss', with full autonomy within predefined boundaries and responsibility for their own P&L. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dmHYsn_2 #BusinessEcosystemAlliance #ZeroDX #ZeroDistance #ecosystems

We’re thrilled to highlight one of this year’s Zero Distance Excellence Award recipients – Chorus Australia, a not-for-profit organization providing aged care, disability support, and mental health services across Western Australia. At Chorus, 20 small, self-sufficient teams operate autonomously, making decisions tailored to the needs of their local communities, guided by five key principles including 'Everyone can thrive' and 'Teamwork sustains kindness'. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dpskx8PA #BusinessEcosystemAlliance #ZeroDX #ZeroDistance #ecosystems

Get to know one of the 2024 Zero Distance Excellence Award winners – Var Group, an international system integrator with over 3850 employees across 13 countries, supporting companies in their digital evolution. In 2023 the company kicked off a journey to become a ‘platform organization’ and began implementing small, independent business units called micro-enterprises with their own profit and loss responsibilities, shared service platforms to support these units, and ecosystem micro-communities to foster collaboration between teams, all inspired by Haier's #RenDanHeYi model. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dXSRSqdq #BusinessEcosystemAlliance #ZeroDX #ZeroDistance #ecosystems

We’re thrilled to highlight one of this year’s Zero Distance Excellence Award recipients – SD Guthrie International Zwijndrecht Refinery B.V. SD Guthrie is one of the world's largest producers of certified sustainable palm oil, with operations in over 90 countries. The company has shifted to a customer-focused ‘One-Stream’ model, empowering cross-functional teams to act autonomously across functions in delivering new customer value. Learn more about their work: https://lnkd.in/gdX5-67J #BusinessEcosystemAlliance #ZeroDX #ZeroDistance #ecosystems

We had the pleasure to hand over one of this year’s Zero Distance Excellence Awards to SeamosUno. SeamosUno was a ‘liquid organization’ founded in Argentina during the COVID-19 pandemic to rapidly distribute food to those in need. They revolutionized crisis response by aligning 300+ companies, religious and social entities, and state agencies in a networked management model, eliminating hierarchy and allowing autonomous units to work at unprecedented speed and scale - distributing 60 million food rations to over 1 million families in less than five months. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gdX5-67J #BusinessEcosystemAlliance #ZeroDX #ZeroDistance #ecosystems

We’re thrilled to highlight one of this year’s Zero Distance Excellence Award winners – Raízen Raizen is an integrated Brazilian energy company with 46,000 employees, operating across the entire bioenergy production chain. Over the last year, Raízen created empowered, end-to-end teams and processes to better serve its largest fuel station customers, resulting in a 36% reduction in service times, a 40% increase in customer loyalty scores, and less bureaucracy (e.g., hiring times shrank from 46 to 7 days). Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gdX5-67J #BusinessEcosystemAlliance #ZeroDX #ZeroDistance #ecosystems

We had the pleasure to hand over one of this year’s Zero Distance Excellence Awards to Ingersoll Rand, a global industrial manufacturing company that produces pumps, compressors, and other industrial products. Over the last 5 years, the company has embarked on a remarkable journey of entrepreneurship at scale: employees now receive substantial equity ownership and take part in hundreds of empowered cross-functional teams called 'boards of directors' which have generated over three billions of dollars’ worth of value. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gdX5-67J #BusinessEcosystemAlliance #ZeroDX #ZeroDistance #ecosystems

We’re happy to highlight one of this year’s Zero Distance Award recipients – Fujitsu Europe. Fujitsu Europe, a division of the global technology company, created tens of autonomous micro-enterprises in 2020 with the freedom to make quick decisions, target new markets, and manage their own hiring and deals. Within a year, this move increased employee engagement by nine points, flipped customer Net Promoter Scores from negative to positive, and boosted revenue growth. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gdX5-67J #BusinessEcosystemAlliance #ZeroDX #ZeroDistance #ecosystems

Haier Group's innovative transformation from a traditional corporation into a network of autonomous, entrepreneurial teams presents a significant shift in organizational design. This approach fosters direct customer engagement, open collaboration, and shared value creation. The article examines the broader implications of this model, discussing how the rise of interconnected business ecosystems across various industries is leading to the concept of an "ecosystem of ecosystems." This emerging paradigm highlights the potential for businesses to collaborate on equal footing, address complex global challenges, and redefine success in a highly interconnected world.