- The Value Engineers

Each company is part of an ecosystem that not only contains shareholders but also customers and suppliers, their customers and suppliers, its competitors and partners, and more. Without this ecosystem, a company can produce nothing. What would Facebook be without their ecosystem of content providers, publishers, advertisers, payment providers, cloud providers, to name only a few? How could a bank function without the financial ecosystem? What would a car manufacturer be without its ecosystem? Think of the ecosystem on which your own company depends. How robust is it? How healthy is it?

To offer your value proposition, you need a healthy ecosystem. To make a business model for your value proposition, you should make a business model of your ecosystem. And to assess the health of your ecosystem, you should assess the distribution of benefits, costs, and risks over all stakeholders of that ecosystem.

We help you design a healthy ecosystem for your value proposition. We then assess the health of your ecosystem by estimating revenue streams, assessing robustness, and estimating risks. The ecosystem model that we deliver has three parts:

A value proposition that describes your offering to customers;
A stakeholder model that describes who is involved in producing this value proposition;
A profit-and-risk model that shows how each of the stakeholders profits from participating in the ecosystem, and what risks it takes.

If the assessment shows that your ecosystem design is healthy, we help you operationalize this model in your IT infrastructure.

To learn more, browse through the insights below, follow one of our workshops, or contact us at info@thevalueengineers.nl. Our approach considers the interests of all stakeholders, quantifies profits as well as risks, and can be customized to include criteria for a circular economy.

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Insights

Ecosystems
Stakeholder-Driven Ecosystem Development

Stakeholder-driven ecosystem development gives you viable solutions faster.
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The Business Models of Apple Pay and Apple Card

Apple Pay and Apple Card make Apple's ecosystem even more sticky.
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Moving to low-touch value creation and delivery and resilient value networks.
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Blockchain
Decentralization is a Cost-Benefit-Risk Tradeoff

Blockchains guarantee correctnes but not validity of computations.
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