The modern platform and ecosystem business model is an Apple invention.

FORBES: Tim Cook Will Sigh With Relief Following the S4 Launch Today

They are writing a new playbook around content, device, and connectivity and that in turn places more and more importance on the interface and OS. But these elements are really about the broader development of a platform and ecosystem business model that Nick Vitalari and I describe in The Elastic Enterprise.

FORBES: Microsoft, Welcome Back, You're Doing Better Than They Think

Throughout the IYB steady progress was made towards the establishment of an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on the model of the IPCC, pivotal in assessing the science and raising global awareness of climate change.

UNESCO: Indigenous Peoples