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Ecosystems are an important aspect of today’s software business, and can be beneficial to companies that can create and organize such ecosystems around their products. Unfortunately, creating such ecosystems is not an easy task. The value blueprint is a tool created by Adner, that allows a company to identify the different types of risks to be faced during the establishment of an ecosystem. In this paper we describe a case study conducted to assess the value blueprint as an effective tool to help in the design of new ecosystems. This case study is based on data about the Apple Watch. We report our evaluation of the value blueprint tool and provide recommendations for practitioners interested in establishing their own ecosystems and researchers interested in the design of ecosystems.
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Almeida, L.A., de Souza, C.R.B., Lima, A.M., Reis, R.Q. (2015). Assessing the Value Blueprint to Support the Design of a Business Ecosystem. In: Fernandes, J., Machado, R., Wnuk, K. (eds) Software Business. ICSOB 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 210. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19593-3_8
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