The Ecosystem layer is the strategic intelligence and navigation layer of your organization. It provides a dynamic, living map of your entire operating environment, enabling you to see and understand the world in which you operate.
Traditional models view the "outside world" as a static "market" to be analyzed. Flexflow takes a more holistic, systemic approach, helping you see the complex web of relationships, flows, and forces that truly shape your potential for impact.
A brilliant organization is only as effective as its understanding of its environment. This layer provides the tools to move beyond strategic blindness and cultivate a state of continuous, real-time awareness.
Foundation
Define the core identity, purpose, and boundaries of the ecosystem you are a part of.
C1
Relations
Map the networks, trust dynamics, and relationships between the key actors in your world.
C2
Context
Analyze the broader trends, systemic forces, and external influences that shape your landscape.
C3
Governance
Understand the frameworks for how decisions are made and power is distributed within the ecosystem.
C4
Flows
Trace how diverse forms of value, financial, social, and natural, circulate through the system.
C5
Friction
Identify the key systemic barriers, unmet needs, and points of friction that inhibit health.
C6
Potential
Discover hidden strengths, untapped opportunities, and high-leverage points for intervention.
C7
Dynamics
Map the feedback loops and emergent patterns that define how the system behaves over time..
C8
Capacity
Assess the ecosystem's collective ability to learn, innovate, and adapt to change.
C9
Impact
Evaluate the multi-order effects and outcomes that the ecosystem's activities are creating.
C10
Resonance
Gauge the overall health, coherence, and vitality of the ecosystem as a living system.
C11
Sensing Systems
Design the indicators and feedback mechanisms you will use to track the ecosystem's progress.
C12
Adaptive by Design
The domains listed above are the Flexflow standards, built to address universal needs.
Think of them as a flexible scaffold that you can tailor over time: add your own domains, combine or split existing ones, and reconfigure the set to match your organization’s unique context.
