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Wenger & Trayner | 27 December 2011 | As communities and networks go more mainstream there is an increasing demand from organizations to have ways of monitoring their value. How can we make the connection between the activities of a community and the improved performance of the organization? This value assessment framework, published by the Open University of the Netherlands, identifs five levels of value creation of a community or network:

Minimal hierarchy, organizational diversity and responsiveness characterize ecosystems. Ecosystems are a response to the increasing complexity of strategic horizons and short half-life of designs. To cope with the uncertainties firms see themselves and th