James F. Moore Books

Billions of smartphones--fantastically powerful, varied, constantly changing---can be had for as little as $50 US. Why is that? They are made by an open ecosystem cooperative community of companies working together, engaging talent from around the world--dedicated to creating ever-more-innovative offerings that in turn support magnitudes of apps, each of which is capable of supporting additional ecosystems, which in turn transform our daily personal ecosystems. The result? The largest economic cooperative in history. This is the story of how this co-op came to be and what we can learn from it in order to thrive.

Today's marketplace is seeing radical changes in the way companies do business with one another. New partnerships and alliances are constantly being forged, the lines between industries have blurred, and it has become difficult to tell one business from another, and who's competing with whom. The Death of Competition helps managers make sense of this chaos. Using biological ecology as a metaphor, it reveals how today's business environment parallels the natural world, and how, just like organisms in nature, companies must coexist and coevolve within their own business ecosystems. Through numerous examples, he explains the radically new cooperative/competitive relationships like the one forged between IBM and Microsoft and provides a comprehensive framework businesses can use to enhance their own collaborations with their customers, suppliers, investors and communities.