Understanding Business Model Innovation Pattern of Small and Medium Enterprises: Analyzing the Changes in Business Model and Operational Area in Response to Firm's External and Internal Factors- A Case Survey Research

The EU Innovation Union identified that innovations are needed to boost economic growth performance, where SMEs are considered vital for these goals. To achieve this, business model innovation (BMI) is identified as the new area to innovate and also source of future competitive advantage. Furthermore, business model changes as a form of...

Understanding the implications of business model innovation in small and medium enterprises: Measurement development and face validation

Innovation has been regarded by European Commission (EU) as the important factor for economic growth. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are known as the source of these innovations, thus the source of economic growth. SMEs role during economic crisis is crucial as they can create employment. But they are still have pressing problems in finding...

Electricity market of the future: Assessing economic feasibility and regulatory constraints for demand response aggregators in Europe

Recent developments in the demand response (DR) arena (PowerMatcher platform, Google’s NEST device, FAN communication standard, ENDAX platform etc.) indicate that the world is not becoming simpler. A complex set of interactions and mixtures at different levels of demand response aggregation can be expected in the near future. Given the goal of ...

Value creation through network infrastructure automation: The Software-Defined Networking Technology and its business model from the IT service provider’s perspective

Our research is exploring how the computer network technology of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) can benefit an IT service provider. SDN is a novel technology that is capable of managing a whole network based on a single centralized entity. As a result an SDN enabled network becomes more flexible, automatable and programmable to satisfy users’...

Platform ecosystems in Mobile for Development

The use of next generation mobile internet is increasing in developing countries and provide end-users in developing countries with access to worldwide mobile services. The consequences for operators are declining revenues per user because of the increased use of mobile internet and decreased use of voice and text services. The declining...

A Framework for Measuring the Alignment between Business Models and Business Processes in Software Development Companies

Currently, there are plenty of tools and frameworks of measuring the strategic alignment of a company – the consistency between the corporate strategy and its business processes. However, no one has proposed a tool for measuring the alignment between a business model and business processes. This research project aims to fill this gap in the...

An Approach for Enterprise Architecture and Business Model Alignment

This research aims at bridging business model and enterprise architecture in a practical and analytical way. Exploring business model and enterprise architecture limitations and the way these limitations affect the organization showed that by bridging them an effective communication between IT and business people could be gained,...

Getting the right information: Understanding client's needs in the context of software development

Capturing Value from Platform-as-a-Service Technology: Platform-as-a-Service Adoption Model for Large Enterprises

Cloud computing market is expected to grow rapidly in the next five years. Even though Software-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions will dominate most of the market, Platform-as-a-Service solution is forecasted to have the fastest-growing segment, especially in Western Europe. On the other hand, cloud computing is also argued...

Development of a new feasible business model for the Hague Justice Portal designed to fit and meet the constraints and objectives

The research carried out had the objective to find additional means of income for the Hague Justice Portal (HJP), a website owned by the Hague Academic Coalition (HAC) which is composed of eight different members. The increasing dissatisfaction felt at the HAC (members) and the municipality of The Hague regarding the HJP’s failure to find other...

Water Taxis in the San Francisco Bay Area: From travel time to quality time: Is there a viable service concept?

This thesis presents a discrete-choice model as the basis to forecast market shares for high-end water taxis in the San Francisco Bay Area. Waterborne mobility studies are growing in numbers, but studies towards the potential of personalized versions thereof is scarce. Three service concepts are designed as business models and compared on...