"Organisations need to change at least as fast their environment, so if your environment is changing rapidly, how do you keep up with it? It might seem that modelling an ecosystem is too big or too difficult to do frequently and at speed, but that’s not the case. It’s possible to build an ecosystem model in a couple of days and use it to understand what is going on right now.  We’ll show how to model the ecosystem your organisation is part of, and the critical elements you’ll want to know about to inform your strategy development. The key in modelling an ecosystem is getting the right level of granularity and there are three major questions:  1.    Who is deploying which strategies?  2.    What value is / is not being created / exchanged?  3.    What functions are present to support ecosystem development?  It is easy to keep the model up to date and use it to explore emerging trends or imminent crises and develop your options.  "