If we were to design a social enterprise ecosystem only to address the pressing issues of today, before long it would become less relevant, even obsolete, as the nature of existing social challenges change while new problems emerge.

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For an enterprise to get maximum value from M2M, the ecosystem needs to come together to package their value-added services into an application that is simple-to-use and seamlessly integrates all the components in the background.

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Nick Vitalari and I write about the impact of business ecosystems in our new book The Elastic Enterprise and as ARM represents a very interesting case of an ecosystem at work, it might also illustrate some truths about how the new business environment operates.

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Apple revolutionized corporate structures with its massive developer ecosystem, a topic covered here in The Elastic Enterprise.

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They are writing a new playbook around content, device, and connectivity and that in turn places more and more importance on the interface and OS. But these elements are really about the broader development of a platform and ecosystem business model that Nick Vitalari and I describe in The Elastic Enterprise.

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With BlackBerry waning in popularity and the BYOD trend catching on, the tight security and the robust app ecosystem of the iOS should continue to help Apple take a bigger share of the enterprise market going forward.

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With BlackBerry waning in popularity and the BYOD trend catching on, the tight security and the robust app ecosystem of the iOS will continue to help Apple take a bigger share of the enterprise market going forward.

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