TY - GEN
T1 - Transforming a Supply Chain towards a Digital Business Ecosystem
AU - Lavikka, Rita
AU - Hirvensalo, Antero
AU - Smeds, Riitta
AU - Jaatinen, Miia
PY - 2017/8/31
Y1 - 2017/8/31
N2 - This study describes the intervention process of transforming a peat production supply chain towards a digital business ecosystem. We conducted a series of participative, co-creative workshops to facilitate and to research the transformation process. According to our findings, a wider ecosystem perspective to transformation helped to overcome the initial motivational challenges felt by the supply chain members. In the workshops, the participants were able to create joint meanings of social, financial, and use value of digital data, and to collaboratively make decisions about the transformation towards a digital business ecosystem. This was due to the participants’ collaborative knowledge creation and negotiation processes, supported by the facilitators applying co-creative methods. Our results suggest that a developmental intervention provided a temporary governance structure for the participants to collaboratively create a shared logic for the digital business ecosystem creation.
AB - This study describes the intervention process of transforming a peat production supply chain towards a digital business ecosystem. We conducted a series of participative, co-creative workshops to facilitate and to research the transformation process. According to our findings, a wider ecosystem perspective to transformation helped to overcome the initial motivational challenges felt by the supply chain members. In the workshops, the participants were able to create joint meanings of social, financial, and use value of digital data, and to collaboratively make decisions about the transformation towards a digital business ecosystem. This was due to the participants’ collaborative knowledge creation and negotiation processes, supported by the facilitators applying co-creative methods. Our results suggest that a developmental intervention provided a temporary governance structure for the participants to collaboratively create a shared logic for the digital business ecosystem creation.
KW - Digital transformation
KW - Developmental intervention
KW - business ecosystem
KW - Peat production
KW - Supply Chain
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029422555&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-66926-7_34
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-66926-7_34
M3 - Conference article in proceedings
SN - 978-3-319-66925-0
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 295
EP - 301
BT - Advances in Production Management Systems
A2 - Kiritsis, Dimitris
A2 - Thoben, Klaus-Dieter
A2 - Lodding, Hermann
A2 - Riedel, Ralph
A2 - von Cieminski, Gregor
PB - Springer
ER -