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[edit] FIA Poznan Session: Value creation, value flows and liability over virtual resources
25 October 2011, 11.30 - 13.30 Hour
Research from the Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) domain, notably from the COIN IP, suggests that an increasing number of enterprise centric services will be commoditised and factorized in the Internet of the Future as a set of Utility Services, available to all enterprises at a very low or zero cost, with guaranteed quality of service, and provided under non-discrimination and non-exclusivity policies. The Utility Services are to be contrasted with Value Added Services, which are premium, typically pay-as-you-go services, offered on a proprietary basis. Historically, the commoditisation of hitherto value added services has been a clear trend in many industrial sectors including ICT.
It is envisioned that IT services which are commoditised would be provided as (part of) an open platform, or via federation of open platforms. Examples of such commoditised services, or utility services, as put forward by the COIN IP, include service search, composition, security, privacy, collaboration and interoperability.
There are economic, public interest and competition arguments to support the above proposition. The proposed innovative service infrastructure, as a collection of utility services provided via one or more open platforms - is called ISU (Interoperability Service Utility) - one of the four Grand Challenges identified in the Research Roadmap of the former Enterprise Interoperability Cluster, now the Future Internet Enterprise Systems Cluster of DG INFSO at the European Commission.
Preliminary results from the ongoing research on service infrastructures as described above indicate that technical, social and business innovation is increasingly intertwined. Specifically:
- Business innovation is constrained by continuous tension and tussle of interests between innovation and monopolisation/lock-in. Technical collaboration between the relevant actors, which is essential for bringing and implementing utility services to the market, can easily be eroded by competitive pressures and the general trend towards ICT consolidation.
- There is in principle business (and money) to be made for implementing sector or application specific utility services for encouraging and catalysing the development of value added services within individual and well defined industrial settings. However, interoperability of enterprise centric services between such “islands” of service infrastructures cannot and should not be automatically assumed.
- The ROI for (utility) service infrastructures based on the supply-demand model of conventional economics is not compelling for market actors in purely commercial terms.
- The structure (topology) of enterprise networks will be as important as the structure of the Future Internet in which they inhabit. The parallel present market developments characterised by the rising dominance of “open” service platforms and infrastructures, while creating its own ecosystem, are simultaneously deconstructing existing value chains and market structures. In other words, incremental market evolution may paradoxically lead to its opposite: large scale dislocation, consolidation of market power and foreclosure of market opportunity.
In FInES, the question as regards the (Future) Internet as a Universal Business System (UBS) for Enterprises and SMEs in particular has been raised (see the work of the FInES Cluster Task Force on UBS and ISU). This led to the proposition of considering different forms of innovation through the lenses of business innovation, with potential ramifications of how to go about conceptualising, architecting, developing, testing and ultimately implementing technical architectures and enterprise systems. Moreover, again from a business perspective, such endeavours need to account for continuous innovation of business models and the underlying value models upon which the specific business models premised. At this stage, relevant key questions include:
- Assuming that the existence of utility based service infrastructure(s) is(are) a pre-condition for realising the Future Internet as a “Universal Business System”, who is/are going to develop and maintain such infrastructure(s), and according to what principles and interests?
- How to preserve the neutrality of the Internet of Services and the open competition among Added Value service providers, while providing basic Utility Services as a public good?
- Is the commoditisation of certain basic services a necessary pre-condition for stimulating entrepreneurship and innovation?
- What would be the optimal governance model for the service infrastructure(s)?
- What are the technical ramifications for architectural development?
These issues will be discussed under the Societal and Business Application Perspective of the FIA Poznan Session. The session is a collaborative effort of the FInES Cluster, the Future Internet Social Economic Working Group (FISE), and various stakeholders.
[edit] Session description and Agenda
See full description and details.
[edit] Presentations at The Societal and Business Application Perspective sub-session
- Introduction to the sub-session & Position Statement, Man-Sze Li(IC Focus), FInES Cluster
- Position Statement, Jasper Lentjes, Business Innovation Manager, Vlastuin Group
- Position Statement, Sergio Gusmeroli, Corporate Research Director, TXT e-Solutions SpA
[edit] Session report
- Key messages to remember and lessons learned as summarized by Michael Boniface (session co-organiser, rapporteur), University of Southampton
[edit] Links and communication channels
[edit] Contact
For further information about the session or general information about enterprise activity in the context of FIA, please contact Man-Sze_Li, session co-organiser.
[edit] FIA Ghent Session: Scenarios for Future Internet Business
17 December 2010, 08.30 – 10.00 Hour
Caretakers
Man-Sze Li (Session Responsible), FInES Cluster Co-Chair, IC Focus; Stefano De Panfilis, Engineering, NESSI and EFII; Sergio Gusmeroli, TXT; John Kennedy, Intel; Jean-Dominique Meunier, Technicolor and NEM
Additional Session Contributors
Michael Boniface, IT Innovation Centre; Pierre-Yves Danet, France Telecom/Orange Labs; Michele Missikoff, CNR; Andreia Moreira and Julián Seseña, ROSE Vision; John Psarras, EPU-NTUA
The session is organised in close consultation and collaboration with the Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) Cluster of DG INFSO and all interested parties.
See FIA Ghent Enterprise Session subpage for full information about this session
[edit] FIA Valencia Session: What does Future Internet mean for enterprise?
15 April 2010, 11.30 – 13.30 Hour
Caretakers
Man-Sze Li, IC Focus (FISO, FISE), Stefano De Panfilis, Engineering (EFII), Sergio Gusmeroli, TXT (FISO), John Kennedy, Intel (FISO, RWI), Jean-Dominique Meunier, Technicolor (NEM, FCN), Michele Missikoff, CNR (FISO)
See FIA Valencia Enterprise Session subpage for full information about this session
[edit] FIA Stockholm Session: What does Future Internet mean for enterprise?
23 November 2009, 16.30 – 18.00 Hour
Caretakers
Man-Sze Li (FISO, FISE), Sergio Gusmeroli (FISO, RWI), Jean-Dominique Meunier (FCN), Michele Missikoff (FISO), Sergios Soursos (FISE)
with the support of Stefano de Panfilis (Future Internet PPP) and Paul Moore (FCN)
See FIA Stockholm Enterprise Session subpage for full information about this session
