Bussiness model patterns

[Tiberius Brastaviceanu]

Hi all, 

I am reading an interesting paper about bussiness model patterns. I thought you might be interested and perhaps we can have a constructive exchange.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SAjPBVRqT1JHueKgESGJr6iJ4uR7HdEK/view?usp=drivesdk

Helene Finidori (in CC) introduced me to patterns a few years ago and since that day I never saw things the same way. She has some very interesting papers out there that you might want to read also.

See also "pattern thinking". Helene is a big proponent of pattern literacy, teach people to think in terms of patterns. 

Also search "pattern language". You can start with our page on the subject, under Education

https://www.sensorica.co/help/education/patternlanguage

I am applying pattern language and pattern thinking as a novice, self thought, to advance our OVN model. You can see traces of this in our docs and the OVN wiki. 

But I have a question that I would like to discuss here. 

We can find all kinds of systems out there, in nature, in different realms: bussiness / economy, biology, culture, etc. Systems are made of elements, also systems. But nature doesn't allow all the possible combinations of elements. Only certain patterns or combinations of these patterns are possible. A bit like chemistry if you will, atomic elements can only combine according to certain so called rules, described by physics. 

As we try to forsee the future, the question is what economic patterns are more likely to emerge and consolidate, how will these patterns be distributed, ...

When I got into this field I was following Michel Bauwens who was inventorying emerging patterns. Then the so-called sharing economy and all these proprietary platforms emerged and consolidated into what we call today "platform capitalism". You can find the bussiness model patterns in the paper I just linked above and understand how they operate. So these ended up being stable systems, build on these patterns, that emerged within capitalism, which can be seen as the socioeconomic environment. We've also seen p2p or value network patterns emerge solid. The Bitcoin network is a good example, still going strong after more than a decade. But these p2p stable systems seam to be scarce. Is it because the environment hasen't changed enough? 

Under what environmental conditions these p2p systems can thrive and proliferate? What will be the most prominent patterns? 

Sensorica is evidently struggling to take off, but somehow it is sustainable  meaning that people are still drown to it. I've always attributed that to environmental conditions, which are changing, but slowly. For this reason, I initiated the 4th Sector initiative and started to engage politicians in a discussion about the future of the economy, policies, legal frameworks, development of new values systems, of new entrepreneurial cultures, ...

https://www.sensorica.co/projects/4th-sector

See also our page on collaborative entrepreneurship

https://www.sensorica.co/help/education/collaborative-entrepreneurship

In other words, how is the world evolving, what are the conditions for p2p or value network patterns to emerge and proliferate, and ultimately, what patterns will emerge? 

How can we go from observing and classifying patterns to predicting patterns and even to engineer the environment for some patterns to thrive? 

[Miguel Novik]

I went through the papers maybe a little fast.   Also a took a view to one of Helene´s paper

For me the main approach is not academics,  it is from ourselves. How do you want to relate in the markets?  If we go into a personal inner answer, we will find the people and companies that want to relate the same way.

Personally  I do not want to compete without taking into consideration ¨the whole picture¨ (what I am generating to others and planet). What does it mean ¨consideration of others¨ and ¨the whole picture? , yes, probably each one of us could give a different explanation about them. We could be talking and studying forever.  

The document you point out below defines ¨ A BM defines how firms create, deliver, and capture value in a market (Teece 2010).

That is a great and simple definition.

Also we have to know that we have to eat, to have a house (place to live), etc etc (we have needs, (it is very simple). you can use Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, or even better if you use your own list of last month expenses and things you aim to do or buy and you haven´t)....

How do you want to participate in the production of  ¨those products or services that satisfy your needs?, And How do you want to capture the value generated?

You can find  thousands of answers. I have one answer here in opendata-economy  because I personally, as an entrepreneur, I could define a limit on my profits, share the sales data and work to achieve a market that is not playing poker and manipulating perceptions, but giving as much information that allow the whole production and commercial chain become ¨transparent¨. 

Why would the customers, workers and entrepreneurs take decisions to encourage this new reality? Because they see benefits, but also because they enjoy more this new game... 

If we decide to work and buy in a  opendata-economy stage,  we would be choosing to encourage to build and see the whole chain of production:  the extraction (or regeneration) of resources, the increase in value (production and commercial chain, that buy, produce and sell), and the capture of value (profits and salaries)..... At the same time that we look for our own needs satisfactions, we can take responsibility and to choose to buy and work for those companies that most contribute and capture the value ¨in a fair way¨..... The ¨fair price¨ is defined by the market, but it is a ¨Visible hand of the market¨. (At the same time we ensure personal people privacity).

Again, (sorry if I repent too much, but it is so simple that people do not understand easelly the proposal),   for me to define the BM that could spread out on the market is a personal decision, but I hope we will be millions of people and entrepreneurs educating ourselves to choose who to buy from (and where work in) in order to achieve more fair trading relationships..(more fair and transparent market).  Today the market actors aim to increase their power of negotiation, in opendata-economy we let the community or the market to decide each organization's power... Of course, this is hard to imagine because how can we trust that the openness will assign ¨ a fair recognition for each production (or add value) contribution?.

In the worst scenario we would be in the same ¨fair or unfair market situation of today¨. But the focus of finding a BM that is willing to ¨ show¨ (in concrete measurements) your contribution and the level of your capture of value, I think it is a personal decision and a future vision that we need to follow...

Don´t you think so?

Blessings.

Miguel

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[Inayathullah Ghori]

Hi Tibb. Extremely sorry for not being able to update about Urjavan. The project was shelved and a colleague of mine uploaded the drafts on the webpage. The Covid situation here is going from worse to worse everyday and I can't focus on anything else. I really admire your work and hope it goes well for you.

Again, I am really sorry about the absence.

Warm regards,

Dr.Inayath

[Tiberius Brastaviceanu]

No problem. Stay safe!

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[Tiberius Brastaviceanu]

Hi Miguel, 

I hear you. I also believe that there is plenty of room for choice and we see a shift towards choices that are more sustainable, because people have been sensitized to social and environmental issues. 

But there are also conditions that are imposed.  Some of these conditions come from nature. Others come from the environment that we have built, a legal framework or the mainstream economic model. 

In other words, our room for decision is constrained by these conditions. 

For example, the p2p pattern applied at large scale was impossible before the Internet. Even if someone dreamed about it and wanted to implement it, there was no medium for it to develop.

 ... how is the world evolving, what are the conditions for p2p or value network patterns to emerge and proliferate, and ultimately, what patterns will emerge?

I guess only patterns that can emerge will emerge. That is, our choice or will is limited by what is possible at a particular time by nature or other type of environmental constraints, including culture. 

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