Publications

This article proposes a new business model framework that allows the design and analysis of value networks for mobile services in a public context. It starts from a validated business model framework that relies on 12 design parameters to evaluate business models on, and expands it by eight parameters to include important aspects that come into play when a public entity (i.e. a city government) becomes (or wants to become) involved in the value ...

Taking a social network perspective, the authors investigate consumers' intentions to use innovative mobile services. With a sociometric survey, they empirically assess how consumers integrate and connect through mobile social networks, as well as how their network position influences knowledge creation and intentions to use four innovative mobile services: multimedia messaging, gaming, information, and transactions. Both personal (i.e., opinion ...

DVB-H is an international broadcasting standard, which offers reliable high data reception to mobile handheld devices. Its main enhancements to conventional DVB-T systems include the addition of time-slicing and an extra stage of error correction called MPE-FEC at the link layer. Time-slicing means that each service will be sent in bursts while MPE-FEC increases the robustness of reception for mobile terminals. DVB-H is mostly used to offer ...

This paper proposes a new business model framework that allows the design and analysis of value networks for mobile services in a public context. It starts from a validated business model framework that relies on 12 design parameters to evaluate business models on, and expands it by eight parameters to include important aspects that come into play when a public entity (i.e. a city government) becomes (or wants to become) involved in the value ...

This paper presents a theoretical framework for the analysis of business models that involve public actors, and city governments in particular, in the value network. It starts from an established business model framework and expands it to include an additional set of parameters required to successfully perform a qualitative analysis of the business models of new (digital) services offered by cities. It then applies this framework to four ...

This article introduces a theoretical framework for the analysis of business models that involve public actors, and city governments in particular, in the value network. It starts from an established business model framework and expands it to include an additional set of indicators required to successfully perform a qualitative analysis of the business models of new (digital) services offered by cities. It then applies this framework to several ...

Market-opportunity assessments for new mobile services are mostly performed via a quantitative method. In this paper, we provide an alternative, which is predominantly qualitative. It can be used as part of an integrated business-modelling framework. The method consists of four steps: (1) a valuenetwork analysis, (2) a competitive analysis, (3) a market segmentation, and (4) scenario development. The scenarios from the last step lead to ...

This paper combines quantitative and qualitative methods to take a first look at the app economy and mobile services landscape in the City and Region of Brussels, capital of Belgium and Europe. By scraping the iTunes App Store and Google Play market places we get a view on platform distribution, pricing, public vs. commercial, adoption, appreciation and popular categories of Brussels apps, as well as a view on the app economy in the city. This ...