A Business Model Approach for Service Engineering in the Internet of Services

A Business Model Approach for Service Engineering in the Internet of Services

Holger Kett
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3894-5.ch013
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Abstract

In all major industrialized countries, the service sector is the largest economic segment maintaining the highest growth rate. A current trend in the Internet of Services is to develop and offer software as a service (SaaS). Some research activities, such as Theseus/TEXO (http://theseus-programm.de/en/914.php), focus on the design and development of Web-based service ecosystems based on Web-platforms which allow offering, trading, and executing of services over the Internet. This paper is based on the Integrated Service Engineering (ISE) methodology, an interdisciplinary methodology for developing electronic services. The focus of this work is laid on the development of business models from a strategic-/market-oriented perspective, prior to consider the service business processes and the underlying IT-oriented service concept. The role of the business strategist and its objectives is introduced. The methodology has been developed in the Theseus/TEXO project which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology.
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State-Of-The-Art

In this section, the following three approaches which focus on business models have been identified and examined. The terms service concept and business models are used as similar expressions within this work.

Service Concept (Bullinger et al., 2003)

The service concept is part of the service engineering process. Bullinger et al. (2003) introduce a structured approach for developing service similar to the technical discipline of product engineering. In this approach, three different models are subsumed in the service concept: Resource model, product model, and process model. Here, the participation of different partners in the service delivery process is not considered within the model as well as attributes which specify the model elements in more details. Also financial aspects are neglected.

E3-Value Ontology (Gordijn & Akkermans, 2003)

In comparison to the above-mentioned service concept, the e3-value ontology strongly considers partner networks who offer a service. Therefore, the ontology differentiates between a value web perspective and a trust perspective. The value web perspective models the creation, distribution, and consumption of goods or services of economic value in a network of multiple enterprises and end-consumers. The goal of the methodology is to create a shared understanding of a business model for all actors involved, and to assess the potential profitability. However, the trust perspective describes how value webs can be expanded with trustworthy control procedures thus enhancing confidence of actors in each other to enable trading.

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