James F. Moore is a leading expert on business strategy, technology and leadership. He is the pioneer of the concepts of "business ecosystems" and the ecological systems approach to business strategy, technology, and economic development. These concepts are widely used for strategy-making in the high tech community.
Jim is the Chairman of GeoPartners Ventures, and a private investor. He is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GeoPartners Research, which he led from 1990 to 1999. GeoPartners was regarded as one of the most influential strategy consulting firms in the high technology sector, and featured in Fortune, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. GeoPartners helped clients unleash revolutionary, disruptive technologies, establish new markets and win standards battles. GeoPartners pioneered scenario planning and the economic analysis of technology-based businesses, including alliances and networks of cooperating companies. The firm forged deep relationships with its clients, which included Intel, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Jim Henson Productions, Royal Dutch Shell, as well as GE Capital, Intel Capital, and AT&T Ventures. The GeoPartners consulting business was acquired by Renaissance Worldwide in 1999, and Jim retired from day-to-day leadership of the company.
Jim is the author of a best-selling book, The Death of Competition: Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems. The Wall Street Journal awarded the book five stars and selected it as one of the top books for entrepreneurs published this decade. His earlier Harvard Business Review article "Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competition" won the McKinsey Award for best article of 1993. Jim's writing has been published in a variety of periodicals ranging from Foreign Affairs to The New York Times and Fast Company. For many years, Jim authored a regular column in Upside, the original Silicon Valley technology business magazine.
Jim is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School, where he directs the Open Economies project at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Open Economies works with entrepreneurs and businesses in developing countries to encourage the use of information technology to promote economic and social development.
Jim contributes his time to a number of initiatives in the human rights and global health and economic development arenas. Jim was an early participant in Hewlett-Packard's World e-Inclusion program, and its first Chair of the Board. He is an active supporter of the Harvard School of Public Health and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Harvard AIDS Institute, which works primarily with AIDS in Africa. He is a member of the Leadership Council of Amnesty International USA.
The Death of Competition: Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems