Transforming a Supply Chain towards a Digital Business Ecosystem

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A3 Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa

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2017-08-31

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IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ; Volume 514

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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.

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Digital transformation, Developmental intervention, business ecosystem, Peat production, Supply Chain

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Lavikka, R, Hirvensalo, A, Smeds, R & Jaatinen, M 2017, Transforming a Supply Chain towards a Digital Business Ecosystem . in H Lödding, H Riedel, T K.-D., G von Cieminski & D Kiritsis (eds), Advances in Production Management Systems : The Path to Intelligent, Collaborative and Sustainable Manufacturing . vol. 1, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 514, Springer, pp. 295-301, International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, Hamburg, Germany, 03/09/2017 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66926-7_34