A Digital Ecosystem for Co-Creating Business with People
Kimmo Karhu1, Andrea Botero2, Sami Vihavainen3,
Tingan Tang1, and
Matti Hämäläinen1
1. Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
2. Aalto University School of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
3. Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT / Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2. Aalto University School of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
3. Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT / Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Abstract—In recent years, we have seen the rise of Web 2.0, in which users become co-creators and software turns into services. During the last two years, we have also witnessed the phenomenal success of Apple’s App Store for which people produce the applications and can also create business of them. While the technologies and business services related to these phenomena have been studied separately, we suggest that the underlying digital ecosystem that ties them together has not been made explicit. In this paper, we provide a conceptual model of a digital ecosystem for understanding how companies can co-create business with people. To construct such a model, we use multiple case study approach and explore two cases: an ecosystem around smart phone application market App Store and an ecosystem around bioinformatics service registry BioCatalogue. Our results suggest that the required technical solutions and business services are now available. However, to make business flourish, the orchestration of the overall ecosystem is also essential and needs to be taken care of.
Index Terms—bioinformatics, business ecosystem, case study, co-creation, digital ecosystem, e-commerce, smart phone, web 2.0, web services
Cite: Kimmo Karhu, Andrea Botero, Sami Vihavainen, Tingan Tang, and Matti Hämäläinen, "A Digital Ecosystem for Co-Creating Business with People," Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 197-205, August 2011. doi:10.4304/jetwi.3.3.197-205
Index Terms—bioinformatics, business ecosystem, case study, co-creation, digital ecosystem, e-commerce, smart phone, web 2.0, web services
Cite: Kimmo Karhu, Andrea Botero, Sami Vihavainen, Tingan Tang, and Matti Hämäläinen, "A Digital Ecosystem for Co-Creating Business with People," Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 197-205, August 2011. doi:10.4304/jetwi.3.3.197-205
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