CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART I

Seeing the Ecosystem

CHAPTER 1

Why Things Go Wrong When You Do Everything Right

Main Case: Run-Flat Tires

CHAPTER 2

Co-innovation Risk: Seeing the Real Odds When You Don’t Innovate Alone

Main Case: 3G Telephony

CHAPTER 3

Adoption Chain Risk: Seeing All the Customers Before Your End Customer

Main Case: Digital Cinema

REFLECTION ON PART I: Internal and External Ecosystems All Around You

PART II

Choosing Your Position

CHAPTER 4

Mapping the Ecosystem: Identifying Pieces and Places

Main Cases: eBooks and Inhalable Insulin

CHAPTER 5

Roles and Relationships: To Lead or Follow in the Innovation Ecosystem?

Main Case: Electronic Health Records

CHAPTER 6

The Right Place and the Right Time: When Does the Early Bird Get the Worm?

Main Cases: Music Players and Semiconductor Lithography

REFLECTION ON PART II: Expanding the Perspective Means Changing the Conversation

PART III

Winning the Game

CHAPTER 7

Changing the Game: Reconfiguring the Ecosystem to Work for You

Main Case: Electric Cars

CHAPTER 8

Sequencing Success: Winning the Connected Game

Main Cases: M-PESA and Apple

CHAPTER 9

Multiplying Your Odds of Success

Better Place Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index