Bifocals: Visualizing Interactions between Business Model Design and Ecosystem Innovation

Konferenzbeitrag

This article describes an ongoing research project, which is mainly addressed to managers of nursing homes. Recent events have obliged nursing homes to redefine the interactions among stakeholders in their business ecosystem. By combining the existing literature in business ecosystem design and business model design, we propose a method called Bifocals to align the two ecosystem and business perspectives. We claim that our method (1) allows representing in details the niche ecosystem where the firm is located, (2) it offers a more structured way to respond to an ever-evolving ecosystem and (3) it underlines a coherent way to build and test new business model features to restructure the firm, in response to its ecosystem. We illustrate how to use Bifocals by describing how we supported the creation of a new service that adapts to recent evolution in the business ecosystem of nursing homes. In the future, we intend to validate our method by working with a group of nursing homes and health department officers.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference, Virtual Conference, 10-12 September 2020 ; Year: 2020 ; Pages: 322-332 ; Zagreb: IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance: General
• Subject: nursing home ; business ecosystem ; ecosystem design ; design science

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Glassey-Previdoli, Deborah ; Bonazzi, Riccardo ; Kuonen, Patrick
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy
• (where): Zagreb
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/224699
• Last update: 20.09.2024, 8:22 AM CEST