Product-service system business models in the building sector: barriers and solutions for companies

The construction sector's reliance on raw materials and the generation of waste necessitate a shift from the unsustainable linear economy to a circular economy (CE). Adopting Product-Service System (PSS) business models is crucial for achieving this transition. However, contractor companies in the building sector face barriers to implementing...

A Business Model Taxonomy for Data Marketplaces: Data Trade in Various Trading Structures

Companies are increasingly reliant on internal and external data sources to innovate their products and services. Currently, companies produce data for their own usage and store it in data silos afterwards. This hinders secondary data usage, when companies reuse external data. Data marketplace owners enable data trade across companies, but...

Predicting the results of the City Hub’s Business model application in the street Witte de Withstraat

The attention of today's society to the environmental changes, pollution and liveability of the cities has never been so high. In this context and from the union of these factors, cities renewal projects were designed all over the world, with the final aim of developing citizen-friendly cities. In particular, in the city of Rotterdam, the...

Sustainable business model for off-grid PV electrification in developing country: In the case of Sumba Island, Indonesia

The electrification ratio of Sumba Island has been increased in the past five years from about 24.5% in 2010 to about 43% 2015 in which 55% of the share supplied by renewable energy resources (Hivos, 2015). Despite the progress on electrification ratio, there are still about 238 out of 433 villages which do not have electricity access (PLN, 2017...

Metamodelling for networked business model implementations: An application to the Industry 4.0 domain

Although aligning business models with enterprise architecture concepts can provide insights into business model implementation aspects, current approaches that facilitate business model enterprise architecture have several limitations: they often lack a network perspective, facilitate one level analysis of the business model implementation, are...

Strategic Advice for the Energy Game: Designing the business model for an energy market product through Business Modelling

Current approaches that deliver energy insight to customers are rather poor, data centric and incomprehensible. Driven by the vision to differently support customers in the transition towards new energy behavior, the Energy Game was developed. This service aims to guide customers in their journey towards a situation in which customers manage...

Market Opportunities for Priva Building Management System in Chinese Living and Working environment

The master graduation project is carried out to help the Dutch company Priva find out the market opportunities in China for her LWE (living and working environment) segment in the Chinese market. Figuring out if Chinese building automation market will be valuable for Priva to enter in now and what product and marketing strategy should be...

Evolution of the Software-as-a-Service model: The analysis from a business model perspective

Software as a Service (SaaS) model allows subscription to a wide variety of application services that are developed specifically for and delivered over the Internet on an as-needed basis without the need to install and manage third-party software in-house. According to Salesforce.com Inc the wide adoption of SaaS model will eventually lead to...

How to offer EV-charging services: Developing a business model for DELTA Comfort on the supply of charging services for electric vehicles

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are incompatible with the current fueling infrastructure. This makes that along with the adoption of EVs a new demand emerges, a demand for EV-charging services. This thesis discusses how the Multi-Utility company DELTA N.V. should react to this new demand. First, the different market roles that DELTA can perform are...

Developing a strategic plan for OCS to expand its business on the Dutch hospital market based on OCS' inspiration care vision.

A Strategic plan for OCS was created to expand its business on the Dutch hospital market. By analyzing company, market, competitors and healthcare developments and comparing the findings with the analysis and evaluation of 5 cases concerning hospital construction and renovation projects, opportunities are identified and a strategic direction was...