Future Enterprise, a Roadmap for the Sensing Enterprise

The circumstances for shifting to new kinds of economies and to new ways of doing business are compelling, with the concept of the sharing and circular economies opening up novel ways to reconcile the quest for growth and business value with the environmental prudence perspective: “doing more with less”. The evolution of Sensing Enterprises is expected to capture new business value across supply chains and drive digital business innovation to undiscovered pathways in product design, development of product-to-service approaches, customer engagement and internal structure and performance. In this paper, a glimpse of the business models innovations that are relevant for Sensing Enterprises is provided, leading to the elaboration of the research challenges to accelerate new forms of enterprises, mainly along the following dimensions: (a) Collaborative, Real-time, Proactive Business Analyticsas-a-Service, and (b) Innovative, Web-based Business Models for New Kinds of Economies.