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A community of stakeholders including suppliers, distributors, customers, competitors, and government agencies involved in the delivery of specific products or services through both competition and cooperation. Each entity in the ecosystem affects and is affected by the others, creating a constantly evolving relationship that derives shared-value through trusted relationships.
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A community of stakeholders that may include any of: business entities, government agencies and individuals forged around a common purpose to deliver or consume specific products and services. Stakeholders relationships may include those of business partners, service providers, customers, consumers and competitors among others. Each entity in the ecosystem influences and is influenced by the others, creating dynamic relationships constrained by formal governance and policies with the overall goal of deriving shared-value through trusted relationships.
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Ecosystem Project
A formalized collaborative activity, managed by members of an Ecosystem , that leverages ToIP guidance to establish and maintain an operational implementation of domain specific instances of a governance framework and a ToIP Interoperability Profile (TIP).
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The following workflow diagram depicts the conceptual swim lanes of a life cycle management process for the establishment and maintenance of an Ecosystem Project.
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