Applying strategic business modeling to understand disruptive innovation

  • Authors:
  • Reza Samavi;Eric Yu;Thodoros Topaloglou

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Electronic commerce
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The Internet and related technologies have created enormous potential for disruptive innovations. Businesses engaging in e-commerce must constantly be examining opportunities and threats arising from disruptive change. Modeling techniques have been introduced to help visualize and reason about business models and strategies. This paper offers a modeling approach which characterizes a business model not in terms of flows or exchanges, but the strategic dependencies among various players. The business model is then analyzed in relation to the high-level strategy of the business. When a change arises, competitive scenarios are analyzed in terms of the strategic choices for the incumbent and new entrants. A historical case study from the telecom sector is used to illustrate.