How to collaboratively design a platform business model.
“Tangible Ecosystem Design” is a new method, developed by Fraunhofer IESE to help companies create a vision of a digital ecosystem. As part of a workshop, the structured approach of the TED method helps to model the different actors, their relationships and the underlying processes within an ecosystem. By visualizing these relationships, complex dynamics become tangible and open up new perspectives for strategic decisions.
EURIDICE’s consortium partners, Fraunhofer IESE, the German research institute for Experimental Software Engineering, supports the overcoming of challenges in a wide range of application areas, such as health, agriculture and food, mobility, production, smart city and defense. In well over 2,000 customer projects, Fraunhofer IESE has transferred cutting-edge research into sustainable business practices and innovative products, as well as increased the efficiency of its business partners’ software and systems engineering.
“e³value“*) is a methodology combined with a software application that focuses on the economic evaluation and simulation of business models. It shows how value is created, distributed and used within a network of actors. This approach makes the financial benefits of the actors involved transparent and thus enables the assessment of the economic viability of business models in the ecosystem.
Digital ecosystems offer tremendous potential to open new markets and improve collaboration with partners and customers. To effectively leverage these opportunities, it is critical to develop a sustainable and profitable business model.
The TED-e3 method was developed as part of the EURIDICE project.
The digital resources are the White Paper Digitale Ökosysteme und ihr Scheitern:
and How do Platforms Make Money, by Matthias Koch and Nedo Bartels (2024)
Contact: Dr. Matthias Koch, Department Head Digital Innovation Design at Fraunhofer IESE, or Nedo Bartels
*) The “e³value” methodology was developed in 2001 by Jaap Gordijn & Hans Akkermans. Gordijn, J., & Akkermans, H. (2001). A conceptual value modeling approach for e-business development. Knowledge in e-Business, 27, 27-34.