Ecosystem is a hot word now, but what is ecosystem, and how to analysis it?

Ecosystem is a platform-embedded industry system, a few companies play as core stone, surrounded by numerous SMEs as niche players. Different from vertical integration conglomerate, open ecosystem focus on the cooperation and value sharing.

Ecosystem has a magic power to overcome current obstacles, many experts said that China was too big to take as a whole market, while online world maybe a little different, by leveraging advantages online and offline, building space for SMEs to display products, shape a comprehensive marketplace for users, and provide a service system and a delivery system to support total service, Alibaba has built a totally different strategy comparing with other China Internet providers. In fact, Alibaba has built basic infrastructure for the whole e-Commerce industry, which they called 3rd platform. Although We must admitted that all these achievements were done for Alibaba own benefits, it has contribute much to the new economy.

We can judge one ecosystem from a metrics, including productivity, robustness and affluence, these three fields compose a sound evaluating system, one book named Core Stone has described this metrics, another book named Opening Growth elaborated on the interaction process of one opening ecosystem.