BUSINESS MODELLING FOR SOFTWARE BASED SERVICES

Bart Nieuwenhuis

2011

Abstract

During the 1970s the business model concept was used for describing IT-related business processes. More recently, the business model concept is used for analysing market structures as well as strategic choices related to positioning of organisations within these market structures. Organisations commercialise new ideas and technologies through their business models. The business model design can be seen as a key decision for new firm entrepreneurs. The research field is still lacking a common and general accepted definition of a business model. Chesbrough and Rosenbloom define a business model as ‘a blueprint for how a network of organisations cooperates in creating and capturing value from technological innovation’. Essentially, a business model can be seen as a definition of the manner by which an organisation delivers value to customers, entices them to pay for value and converts those payments to profit. Initially, attention has been paid to empirically defining business model typologies. In recent years, business model research started focusing on exploring business model components and developing descriptive models. Osterwalder and Pigneur use a decomposition consisting of nine components: value proposition, customer segments, client relationships, distribution channels and revenue flows on one hand and key activities, key resources, cost structure, partner network on the other hand. These models can also be used to develop business models for software-based products and services. Software can be part of a tangible product that is being paid for by customers. Due to developments such as Application Service Provisioning (ASP), Software as a Service (SaaS) and more recently Cloud Computing, software is more and more the essential building block of services sold to customers. Due to these developments, a business model design process heading for delivering new experiences to customers is guiding the software development process. The state in which the business modelling field finds itself can be characterized as the pre-scientific chaos (Kuhn): there are several competing schools of thought, and progress is limited because of a lack of cumulative progress. Because of this, there are no clear and unique semantics in the research related to business models. During the last years we have been researching business models and are investigating possibilities to apply well-known engineering principles for this application field. We present a business modelling approach as well as some software business modelling cases.

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Nieuwenhuis B. (2011). BUSINESS MODELLING FOR SOFTWARE BASED SERVICES . In Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-8425-68-3, pages 7-8. DOI: 10.5220/0004460500070008


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@conference{bmsd11,
author={Bart Nieuwenhuis},
title={BUSINESS MODELLING FOR SOFTWARE BASED SERVICES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2011},
pages={7-8},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004460500070008},
isbn={978-989-8425-68-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - BUSINESS MODELLING FOR SOFTWARE BASED SERVICES
SN - 978-989-8425-68-3
AU - Nieuwenhuis B.
PY - 2011
SP - 7
EP - 8
DO - 10.5220/0004460500070008