Situation- and Domain-Specific Composition and Enactment of Business Model Development Methods

Gottschalk, Sebastian; Yigitbas, Enes; Nowosad, Alexander; Engels, Gregor

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-91452-3_7

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“…We utilized knowledge about possible method parts in a method repository [40] and within possible models in a model repository [35]. Out of those, we provided a situation-specific composition and enactment of the method [39]. For the Development, we designed an architecture and implemented the whole concept as a software tool.…”

Section: Design Science Research Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Continuous situation-specific development of business models: knowledge provision, method composition, and method enactment

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The development of new business models is essential for startups to become successful, as well as for established companies to explore new business opportunities. However, developing such business models is a continuous challenging activity where different tasks need to be performed, and business decisions need to be made. Both have to fit the constantly changeable situation in which the business model is developed to reduce the risk of developing ineffective business models with low market penetration. Therefore, a method for developing situation-specific business models is needed. As a solution, we refine the concept of situational method engineering (SME) to business model development. SME, in turn, provides means to construct situation-specific development methods out of fragments from a method repository. We develop a concept for the continuous situation-specific development of business models based on design science. The approach uses the roles of a domain expert, a method engineer, and a business developer together with a repository with method fragments for developing business models and a repository with modeling artifacts for supporting the development. Both repositories are filled by utilizing the experience of domain experts. Out of these repositories, situation-specific development methods for developing business models can be continuously composed based on the changeable situation by the method engineer and enacted by the business developer. We implement it as an open-source tool and evaluate its applicability in an industrial case study of developing a business model for a local event platform. Our results show that situation awareness supports the continuous development of business models.

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Section: Design Science Research Processmentioning

confidence: 99%