Network business models

Ecosystem models of parallel systems are constructed

Parties

• Cooperative value network partners who, by combining expertise, create new product service entities
  
• Developer and maintainer of the collaboration platform
  
• Subcontractors as implementers of the technical solution

Business Model

• Direct use of the service: the parties to the network pay for the use of the service according to the actual use
  
• Ecosystem business model: each is responsible for its share and differences are evened out
  
• “Cooperative”: a non-profit functional entity in which the value accumulated on a platform is used to further develop the platform and the ecosystem
  
• The added value generated by the cooperation for the entire network is essential

Technical enablers / features:

Competences:

• Cloud services and architectures
  
• Open APIs to support the connectivity and scalability of ecosystem actors
  
• Commonly agreed protocols and practices, process interfaces
  
• A common communication platform as part of a whole
  
• Utilization of shared boundary resources (APIs, SDKs, contract templates)

• Digitization of services to the clouds
  
• Real-time data transfer, continuous and efficient collection and analysis of data data
  
• Rights management
  
• Utilization of data analytics in the development of sharing needs and service experience
  
• Automation

Classifications:

• A lightweight network that develops data exchange and data combinations
  
• An industrial network that develops common manufacturing and business models
  
• Models combining systems: from a field optimization system to a total food production system

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