Mark's examples are in the utility sector
- Gridwise - a US consortium of energy companies and technology companies
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory aims to empower utility customers (IBM April 2007)
- How SOA could change the way you buy electricity (Network World, Oct 2007)
- EPAL - the Portuguese water board (one of Mark's own clients)
These schemes are potentially very attractive. There are three main challenges here.
- Identification - analyzing an ecosystem systematically to discover opportunities for creating or releasing additional value
- Mobilization - aligning the ecosystem to the new improved distribution of value - easier where there is a single powerful player or industry regulator that can drive and enforce (and perhaps fund) the initiative until it becomes self-sustaining, otherwise more difficult
- Ecosystem side-effects - working out satisfactory multilateral solutions to complications such as privacy and security
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