Building Digital Business Ecosystems for Regional Development

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Building Digital Business Ecosystems for
Regional Development

• EISCO 2008
• Naples
• 25th September

Rosemary OConnor CM International Ireland
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Agenda

• DBE as a model for local regional development
• Regional roles responsibilities
• Approaching the planning of a regional DBE
• Tools guidance available to support regional
  planning

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DBE as a model for local regional development

• DBE is a virtual environment where the growth of
  networking among regional actors is facilitated
  and made more efficient effective through ICT
• The key benefits afforded by the implementation
  of a DBE is to facilitate
• knowledge sharing
• creation of collaboration processes
• increased entrepreneurship
• increased globalisation integration of markets

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Digital Business Ecosystem
(Enhance the value chain)
suppliers
producers
Server side
services
Client side
SMEs working together
customers
REMOTE ServENT
SME
competitors
Web search
Client side
search
Server side
(Co-opetition)
LOCAL ServENT
SME
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DBE as model for local development cont.
encourage
Leads to
Innovation
Growth
encourage
encourages
SME
SME
SME
develops
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
help
DBE
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
Regional catalysts
characterised by
Help


Regional system


Entrepreneurship
Promote
Cooperation
POLICIES
ICT Open Source
Open Knowledge
ICT Context
Industrial context
Institutional context
Developed using DBE IP resources
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Regional roles responsibilities within a DBE
e.g. Policy Makers, or Major co., or top tier
supplier
e.g. Govt, Intermediary, Public or Private co.
e.g. web designer
e.g. ISP or systems integrator
Implementers
Drivers
Highly Competent
Regional Catalysts
Influencers
Technical Competence
e.g. tourist
e.g. Construction company
Limited Competence
End Users
Discoverers
Individual
Networked
Collaboration Perspective
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• Driver Benefits
• Can integrate applications services with
  existing new partners
• Can broaden market reach, increase B2C
  competitiveness B2B competitive edge
• Shared development costs, shared tools
  standards, shared access to research

• Influencer Benefits
• Access to a new, innovative solution
• Can position the company or region as a leader in
  the exploitation of innovative solutions
• Can address a company or regional challenge in a
  new and dynamic way

• Discoverer Benefits
• Small scale solution for integration with
  partners leading to reduced costs greater
  profitability
• Easy to implement solutions, open access
• Easily integrated with legacy systems

• Implementer Benefits
• Can develop services that add value deliver
  profitability
• Can greatly increase speed to market
• Shared development costs, shared tools
  standards, shared access to research

DBE Benefits

• Regional Catalyst Benefits
• Can engage with regional players from both public
  and private sector to facilitate collaboration to
  achieve a common goal
• Can achieve a more powerful result through
  inter-organisational group working
• Can facilitate a multi-agency approach to
  regional development

• End User Benefits
• End users can easily access and use applications
  that normally would be reserved for larger
  companies
• End users will have access to more streamlined
  and integrated services
• The time required to find services to address
  their needs will be greatly reduced

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Approaching the planning of a DBE

• Engage, raise awareness and understanding, agree
  the local/regional priorities and needs
• Map out the business ecosystem
• Roles responsibilities
• Technology, infrastructure and services
• Governance model
• Finance

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Tools guidance to support regional planning (1)

• 5 Initial Guides (in 8 languages)

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Tools guidance to support regional planning (2)

• Peardrop Deployment Planning Toolkit

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Peardrop Deployment Planning Toolkit an extract
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Tools guidance to support regional planning (3)

• Peardrop Regional Case Studies outlining the
  deployment planning experience in 13 regions

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Tools guidance to support regional planning (4)

• Peardrop Synthesis Guide

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All deliverables further project information
can be accessed at www.peardrop.eu
Thank you for your attention Any questions?