Inter-Sectoral and Sub-Sectoral IT Business Ecosystem vs. Systemic Relationships Profile in the Selected Cases
Inter-Sectoral and Sub-Sectoral IT Business Ecosystem vs. Systemic Relationships Profile in the Selected Cases

Summary/Abstract: The global, innovative firms have been using new tools to create relations based on value-changing, especially knowledge, because global customers are more exacting and they take decisions more knowingly. The systemic business ecosystems show the possibility to gain synergy effects that are a result of competencies combination of systemic partners. It has been observed for example in the IT sector. The purpose of this article is to identify the structure and profile of business ecosystem and its dynamics, in case of chosen IT leaders and their co-operators, in area of IT systemic/net products. A critical analysis of literature in the field of studied category is conducted in the article and a qualitative method of empirical studies (case study) is applied for a practical illustration of the described processes and phenomena. At the initial stage of the research systemic/networking products promoters have been selected, through a review of experiences and using the criterion of their position in the Polish market. They are: IBM, Intel, HP, Microsoft, and Apple. Then their network partners, especially distributors, and co-operants outside the network have been determined and sub-networks of partners have been selected. In the period between 2000 and 2015, the author regularly analysed the content of Internet webpages of selected entities and authorised press/ sponsored interviews presented in IT magazines, including Computerworld, IT-manager, CIO, and other ones. As it is shown by research results, the entities of the studied sector implement the goal in the so-called business eco-systems based on non-competitive relationships of companies and the identified systemic business ecosystem model in the IT producers and distributors sector is precisely defined. The results have practical application due to the fact that the article contains practices of sectoral leaders. The social value is shown by finding an innovative way of meeting customers’ needs.

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