What business model factors make SMEs more profitable?

A profitable multicast business model

Multicast is an efficient paradigm for transmitting data from a sender to a group of receivers. Multicast incurs lower network bandwidth and end–system costs than broadcast to all receivers or multiple unicasts to individual receivers. One of the main impediments in wide scale deployment of multicast is lack of a good business model. Any technology needs a good business model to succeed. Each o...

Creative Business Model Innovation for Globalizing SMEs

Balancing with Electric Vehicles: a Profitable Business Model

Virtual Power Plants (VPP), centrally-controlled systems of interconnected energy sources, are relevant for balancing the electrical grid. VPPs facilitate flexible energy supply through distributed generation, storage capacity and demand response mechanisms. In our research, we study the role of VPPs consisting of electric vehicles (EV) fleets in addressing the challenges associated with inflex...

Strategies to make e - business more customer - centered

Building user-centered business and experience design practices in the unpredictable world of digital business requires diplomacy, flexibility and, above all, creativity. In this chapter, we share our experiences of working within small and large organisations which were trying to add customer experience research and testing to e-business design and engineering. Working in leadership positions ...

Factors Affecting Regional SMEs Progression to Digital Business Ecosystems

SMEs are widely recognized as an important driving force of economic growth, yet, their uptake of ICT is still very low. To support SMEs ICT adoption and to foster regional development, in 2000, the Lisbon Strategy on the Information Society and Knowledge-based economy created a vision for 2010 towards the creation of the European Digital Business Ecosystems (DBE). This paper is positioned with...