This document outlines an open data business model training course consisting of 4 sessions:
Session 1 introduces business models and open data value propositions. Participants define open data uses and revenue models.
Session 2 uses a business model canvas to develop open data product/service models.
Session 3 discusses pricing, acquisitions, and reassessing models due to market/data/customer changes.
Session 4 emphasizes turning theory into practice by incentivizing open data strategies and finding business opportunities in open data competitions and challenges.
6. Define the purpose of a business model
Define the value of open data to your business
Describe key archetypes of open data business models
Outcomes
7. Business models
A business model is the logic of
an organization to create value
Osterwalder et. al. Business Model Creation
8. Purpose
Assess the value of open
Get beyond the zero sum of data
Connect your data considerations to
business value
Biggest question
What customer problem could open data
solve?
9. Step 1 Defining the value of your open
data service
10. What is the current value of data to
your business?
Post-its in 5
17. What is the problem that open data
could solve for your business?
18. What is the value of open data?
Open data is free - value no-longer comes from data itself, but
products and services added value developed for the market
Ease of use
Behaviour change
Improve innovation
Increase performance
Reduce client cost
Reduce your costs
Reduce risk
Increase accessibility
Build new partnerships
Improve a brand
Solidify value proposition
Benchmark your performance
32. Pricing considerations
1. Calculate the price to the customer of retrieving
data on their own
2. Add time/inconvenience estimate
3. Divide by likely number of future uses
4. Add any in-kind value estimate
The above should be higher than the cost
of the product for 50% of likely customers
34. Use the Osterwalder Business Model Canvas
Lead a group discussion on developing a business model canvas
Produce a complete business model canvas for their
product/service
Outcomes
43. When to Innovate
1. Changes in the market
2. Changes in the data
3. Changes in the customer needs
4. Changes in the team
5. Changes in the product performance
45. Why create incentives?
Open data benefits the organisation but some people will lose out
Those who resist perceive the current state as pareto optimal; any benefit
to one person bringing at least equal harm to others.
Incentives allow rational actors to pursue their interests while contributing to
the goals of your open data strategy
46. Incentives to implement
A key driver of positive strategy adoption is strong, well-aligned incentives
Different functions within the organisation respond to different incentives
Finding the right incentives to overcome differences, harness competition
and encourage collaboration is a priority for strategy architects
49. Rules
Every player starts with 100 pounds
Each round the player decides how much to contribute to a public pot
between 0 and 100 pounds
The public pot pays everyone double the average contribution of all players
Every player ends the round with their share of the public pot plus anything
they did not contribute
50. Example
3 players
Player 1 gives 60 pounds, player 2 gives 40 pounds and player 3 gives 20 pounds
The average contribution to the public pot is therefore 40 pounds
Each player receives 2*40 pounds from the public pot to add to their leftover money
So player 1 has 120 pounds, player 2 has 140 pounds and player 3 has 160
pounds
53. Round 3
Budget: 100 pounds
Return: 2 * average contribution
Reward: If the average end balance > 150 pounds, everyone
gets a sweet
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54. Round 4
Budget: 100 pounds
Reward: 2 * average contribution
Present: Closest contribution(s) to average get 10 sweets
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55. Round 5
Budget: 100 pounds
Reward: 2 * average contribution
Visibility: All contributions made public
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56. Strategic Incentives
Incentive Metric Pros Cons
Overall Quantity Numeric Target Collective action,
scale of result
Free-rider problem,
less useful data
Selected Quantity List of Targets Useful data, equal
contributions
Time-intensive, unit
resistance
Competitive Reward Number from Unit Competitive drive,
broad engagement
Less useful data,
penalise success
Competitive Sanction Number from Unit Overcome apathy,
broad participation
Race to the middle,
Hostile environment
Impact Reward Qualitative Maximise results,
focus resources
Free-rider problem,
inconsistent
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