Table 2 Two guidelines for practically visualizing a business ecosystem
From: Business ecosystem architecture development: a case study of Electric Vehicle home charging
Demand-driven: 6 steps to building an ecosystem of demand for your business (Manning et al. 2002) | Development of an Ecosystem Model for the Realization of Internet of Things (IoT) Services in Supply Chain Management (Papert and Pflaum 2017) |
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1. Understand customer demand by mapping your customer ecosystem. | 1. Definition of an IoT service that should be realized; |
2. Leverage ecosystem partners to take advantage of indirect demand. | 2. Definition of the own value contribution(s) for the realization of the defined IoT service; |
3. Build adaptive strategies to become demand-driven. | 3. Identification of necessary roles that provide the remaining value contributions for the realization of the defined IoT service, in relation to the presented ecosystem model; |
4. Use information technology to support your ecosystem. | 4. Establishment of the own ecosystem by building up business relationships with companies or actors that represent the necessary roles (cooperation partners) for the provision of the remaining value contributions; |
5. Turn business processes into ecosystem capabilities. | 5. Negotiations with the cooperation partners about compensation (remuneration) for the provision of the remaining value contributions; |
6. Synchronize customer ecosystem and supply chain. | 6. Realization of the identified IoT service in cooperation with the partners of the own ecosystem. |