Towards Objective Business Modeling in Enterprise Engineering – Defining Function, Value and Purpose

Value-Oriented Specification of Service Systems

International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector ◽

10.4018/ijisss.2015010104 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 60-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

João Pombinho ◽

David Aveiro ◽

José Tribolet

Keyword(s):

Future Development ◽

Service System ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Service Systems ◽

Service Science ◽

Value Chains ◽

Enterprise System ◽

Enterprise Engineering ◽

Business Modeling ◽

Main Shortcoming

In this paper, we analyze relevant state of the art in the areas of Service Science, Business Modeling and Enterprise Engineering in specifying service systems. The main shortcoming identified essentially resides in the lack of capability to model the purpose and value of a given service system in a structured way to guide current and future development efforts. In order to address these issues, our research focuses on modeling enterprises as service systems along three perspectives, namely: construction, function and contribution to differentiate and integrate their teleological and ontological models. With the proposed approach, we are able to clearly specify how each component of an enterprise system provides a service – thus value – to other components of the same system or of the environment along different, possibly intertwining and overlapped value chains.

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Value-Oriented Specification of Service Systems

Business Law and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8195-8.ch020 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 374-395

Author(s):

João Pombinho ◽

David Aveiro ◽

José Tribolet

Keyword(s):

Future Development ◽

Service System ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Service Systems ◽

Service Science ◽

Value Chains ◽

Enterprise System ◽

Enterprise Engineering ◽

Business Modeling ◽

Main Shortcoming

In this paper, we analyze relevant state of the art in the areas of Service Science, Business Modeling and Enterprise Engineering in specifying service systems. The main shortcoming identified essentially resides in the lack of capability to model the purpose and value of a given service system in a structured way to guide current and future development efforts. In order to address these issues, our research focuses on modeling enterprises as service systems along three perspectives, namely: construction, function and contribution to differentiate and integrate their teleological and ontological models. With the proposed approach, we are able to clearly specify how each component of an enterprise system provides a service – thus value – to other components of the same system or of the environment along different, possibly intertwining and overlapped value chains.

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Entrepreneurial lean thinking for sustainable business modeling: a workshop design for incumbent firms

NachhaltigkeitsManagementForum | Sustainability Management Forum ◽

10.1007/s00550-020-00508-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

E. J. Schwarz ◽

P. Gregori ◽

I. Krajger ◽

M. A. Wdowiak

Keyword(s):

Business Model ◽

Business Models ◽

Business Model Innovation ◽

Opportunity Identification ◽

Sustainable Business ◽

Lean Thinking ◽

Business Modeling ◽

Innovation Research ◽

Political Debates ◽

Negative Environmental Impact

AbstractIn times of increasing concerns and extensive political debates about social and environmental problems, incumbent firms are obliged to reduce their negative environmental impact by implementing sustainable business model innovation. Yet, realizing more sustainable business model variants entails several complexities and associated challenges that need to be overcome. To support this task, this article takes an entrepreneurship perspective on sustainable business model innovation and combines literature of business models and entrepreneurial lean thinking (ELT). In doing so, it derives a workshop design grounded in contemporary theory with state-of-the-art tools and methods. The workshop is framed as a stage-gate process facilitating the notions of ELT with iterative cycles of ‘create, test, and improve’ and spans the phases of opportunity identification, opportunity evaluation, opportunity development through sustainable business model design, and decision of opportunity exploitation. The article shows that ELT is an appropriate yet underutilized approach for sustainable business modeling. Further, it discusses how the workshop supports opportunities and mitigate pitfalls of ELT for sustainable business modeling. As such, the findings have theoretical implications for the intersection of sustainability and lean approaches in innovation research as well as implications for practitioners by providing a comprehensive framework to support sustainable business model innovation.

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