Business Models for Information Goods Electronic Commerce

Wijnhoven, Fons

doi:10.1007/0-306-47009-8_21

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“…This research may consist of collecting more operational design parameters for each of the component elements already mentioned, but even more interesting is the question how the design parameters should be chosen given several conditional factors. For instance Wijnhoven (2001) argues that content characteristics of the information goods would determine the choice for certain business model and process model parameters. In line with research in strategic information systems, an alternative approach would be to emphasize the business strategy as determiner of choices here.…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

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“…Information goods content may be classified along the dimensions of their codification and abstractness (Boisot, 1998;Wijnhoven, 2001). Codification helps to give form to an asset, for instance by representing it in a language or mass-produced artifact.…”

Section: It Architecture: Is Applications and Itinfrastructurementioning

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“…An information good is any representation that is exchanged among people, and an explicit definition of what ownership will be transferred (Wijnhoven, 2001). The information good can be defined (1) per information unit delivered, or (2) as a bundle (a broad collection of units that are available for the client).…”

Section: Information Goodsmentioning

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“…We define the information goods creation process as consisting of several activities, which may be similar for different information goods (high or low abstract goods), though some activities may be deviating. The main processes for information goods services are (1) information goods creation, (2) information goods management, (3) information goods production, and ( 4) information goods retail and distribution (Wijnhoven, 2001). These processes are further decomposed in this section.…”

Section: Information Services Process Modelsmentioning

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“…Lack of space prevents us for analysing the detected processes for different information goods ( cf. Wijnhoven, 2001). …”

Section: Information Services Process Modelsmentioning

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Design Components for Information Market Services

Wijnhoven

2003

Towards the Knowledge Society

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Abstract:Information services are becoming more available and gain in importance for our economy. Many of these services, though often launched with great enthusiasm by their creators and sponsors, quickly die. This article assumes that the main cause of information service failure are based on an insufficient design at its beginning. Following an alignment model, information services design needs the selection of (1) a business model, (2) a process model, (3) a system architecture, and (4) an organizational architecture. Not much explicit understanding of each of these components exists, and consequently the article describes the basic typological elements of each component. The ideas are illustrated by current examples. The article concludes with a discussion and research agenda. Keywords:Information services design; Information goods; Information markets THE INFORMATION SERVICES DESIGN CHALLENGEFollowing Stamper (1973), who takes a semiotic stance, we define information as signs that represent something (e.g. knowledge, observations, illocutions and assertions). Information has at least two values ( 1) information helps the management of organizations, and (2) information is a value by itself (Shapiro and Varian, 1999). This article focuses on the second value, though both are not unrelated. Information as a value by itself is not a new concept, because people are inherently curious or enjoy patterns of representations in art. The efficiency of modem computers in information processing and the abilities of the Internet for communication give the following new opportunities (1) more people can be reached efficiently, and (2) information can be supplied and accessed easier, improving the cost-benefit relation of using information.

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Section: It Architecture: Is Applications and Itinfrastructurementioning

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Section: Information Goodsmentioning

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Section: Information Services Process Modelsmentioning

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“…Lack of space prevents us for analysing the detected processes for different information goods ( cf. Wijnhoven, 2001). …”

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Operational knowledge management: identification of knowledge objects, operation methods, and goals and means for the support function

Wijnhoven

2003

Journal of the Operational Research Society

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Though much has been written about knowledge management, this field has not been described extensively from an operational management perspective. Consequently, knowledge management seems difficult to implement at the operational levels of the organisations. To solve this problem, the abstract notion of knowledge is translated in operational knowledge objects. These objects are the input and output of two operation methods: (1) transformation or learning; and (2) knowledge logistics. The article describes several activities of these operation methods, and gives a classification of operational goals and means for the operations support function. The author concludes with mentioning challenges for the field of operational knowledge management.

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Business Models for Information Goods Electronic Commerce

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Design Components for Information Market Services

Design Components for Information Market Services

Operational knowledge management: identification of knowledge objects, operation methods, and goals and means for the support function

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