Publications related to Business plan

Financing Biomedical Ventures - Myths and Realities

Angel funding is an important source of capital for startup ventures (J. Sohl 2019), providing a similar level of capital as institutional venture capital (OECD 2011). But angel funding is challenging to study due to the informal nature of the activity. A ...

EPFL2020

Problem structuring to enable innovation in business/IT projects

Gil Regev, Tatiana Porté, Alain Wegmann

In this paper, we present a problem structuring method in business and IT analysis illustrated with an example. The project describes an IT consulting case done for a Swiss medical society faced with a problem of change management and digital transformatio ...

LUT Scientific and Expertise Publications2020

For Their Own Good and For the Good of Others: Identity Duality in New Venture Evaluation and Investor Decision-Making

Nettra Danette Pan

Organizing is a managerial process which demands a sense of purpose. When stories about "who we are" and "what we do" are salient and coherent (Voss, Cable & Voss, 2006), organizations can better plan, explain and justify collective action (Whetten & Macke ...

EPFL2018

Technology-Transfer Requirements Engineering (TTRE) – on the Value of Conceptualizing Alternatives

Alain Wegmann, Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

In this paper, we describe a requirements engineering methodwith a focus on the conceptualization of alternative service offerings. Thepractical context for our project is based on the first author’s work in astartup. Our proposed method is suitable for ex ...

Springer, Cham2018

A critical assessment of business model research

Christopher Tucci, Allan Afuah, Lorenzo Massa

Ever since the Internet boom of the mid-1990s, firms have been experimenting with new ways of doing business and achieving their goals, which has led to a branching of the scholarly literature on business models. Three interpretations of the meaning and fu ...

Acad Management2017

What is an Attractive Business Opportunity? An Empirical Study of Opportunity Evaluation Decisions by Technologists, Managers, and Entrepreneurs

Marc Gruber

The subjective belief that an opportunity allows value generation is a key driver of entrepreneurial action. We advance research on opportunity evaluation by investigating how people may diverge in their views of what defines an attractive business opportu ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Protecting Options in Global Markets: Evidence on the Use of Strategic Disclosure

Christopher Tucci, Jana Thiel, Tilo Peters

We examine the impact of globally diverse market operations on a firm’s choice to openly disclose some of its technology. We suggest that this strategic disclosure offers solutions to specific needs in the commercialization strategy of globally operating f ...

2015

Requirements modeling in SEAM: The example of a car crash management system

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska, Anshuman Bahadur Saxena, Biljana Bajic-Bizumic, George Popescu, Maedeh Yassaee

This paper presents how business and IT requirements are captured with the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Methodology (SEAM). The method is applied to the Car Crash Management System (CMS) - Software Product Line (SPL) case study. The existing business s ...

IEEE2013

Regulatory Uncertainty and Nonmarket Capabilities : An Investigation of the Electricity Generation Sector

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

In 2005, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey with Chief Risk Officers worldwide across all industries and asked about the biggest threat to their businesses. Interestingly, regulatory risk ranked first. It dominated all other types of risk, ...

EPFL2011

Effective Nonmarket Strategies: A Model of Political Capabilities

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

This proposal focuses on the firms’ political capabilities as the major determinant to effectiveness of their nonmarket strategy. The term “nonmarket strategy” is relatively young and was primarily coined by Baron (1995) referring to the fact that a firm h ...

2010

e-Innovation and financial services

Yang Yang

The Internet, a classic Schumpeterian innovation, has profoundly altered our lives and influenced the ways we do business. It is now widely accepted by policy makers, scholars, and enterprises that the Internet and related information technologies are the ...

EPFL2008

Diversification into logistics : strategies for incumbent postal operators in Europe

Patrick Mollet

Postal incumbents in Europe have encountered during the last decade fundamental changes in their industry environment, which now threaten their very business model: governments decided to liberalise first the parcel market, then gradually the letter market ...

EPFL2008

Early Requirements and Business-IT Alignment with SEAM for Business

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Irina Rychkova

The early requirements of an IT system should be aligned with the organization’s business imperatives. To understand these imperatives it is necessary to understand the organization’s position within its environment. SEAM for Business is a method designed ...

IEEE2007

Uncovering the value of planning in new venture creation: A process and contingency perspective

Marc Gruber

Researchers are engaged in a major debate on the value of business planning in new venture creation. This study suggests a potential resolution by applying a process and contingency perspective. The results indicate that planning is beneficial, yet plannin ...

2007

Business-IT Alignment with SEAM for Enterprise Architecture

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Lam Son Lê, Irina Rychkova, José Diego de la Cruz Garcia

To align an IT system with an organization’s needs, it is necessary to understand the organization’s position within its environment a well as its internals. In SEAM for Enterprise Architecture the organization is considered as a hierarchy of systems that ...

IEEE2007