Cloud-based Business Model Research Articles

Keep Good Shape (KGS) – the expansion dilemma

Learning outcomes After working on the assignment questions, the learners can achieve the following learning outcomes: to deliberate on the emerging cloud-based business models in the food-tech sector; to scrutinize the challenges faced by a start-up while selecting an expansion model; and to purpose strategies and solutions for scaling up the business. Case overview/synopsis Ms Megha Bafna, the founder, conceptualized starting Keep Good Shape (KGS) in the year 2017. She started the business with a seed capital of INR 3,500 (US$54.13) from her savings. The idea stuck to her mind as she was working with a real estate firm, and every day, she packaged salad for her lunch. Bafna thought that if someone makes the salad available, she will buy it. Based on this this unmet need of the consumers, KGS started as a passion in 2017 and became a full-fledged business in 2021 with 400 daily customers and 38 full-time employees. Today, she serves 22 different salads, including customized salads for customers with lifestyle diseases based on a subscription model. She grew her organization using social media tools such as Facebook and WhatsApp without using any traditional promotion tools. COVID-19 pandemic has increased her orders by almost 10% as healthy meals emerged as people’s choice in 2021. In 2021, she has to choose between expansion through cloud-based kitchen business models across India. She has been confused about selecting the suitable cloud-based kitchen business model and contemplating about funding if she has to expand the business. Complexity academic level An instructor can use this case in the courses of entrepreneurship/strategy subject of a graduate/MBA program. The case study sensitizes the students about setting up a new business and organizing to scale it up further. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 3: Entrepreneurship

Dynamic capabilities triggered by cloud sourcing: a stage-based model of business model innovation

Current research offers very limited insights on the process of how the adoption and continued use of cloud sourcing might trigger and push the development of business model innovation and affect the competitive advantage of a firm. Applying an abductive approach, with two longitudinal case studies of cloud sourcing firms, and a theoretical framework based on stage-based models of business model innovation and the dynamic capability view of the firm, we develop a model of stage-based business model innovation related to the adoption and continued use of cloud sourcing. The model identifies three business model innovation stages characterized by specific types of capabilities. In between the three stages, we identify three dynamic junctures that the firm and its managers have to overcome to progress from one stage to another. In the dynamic junctures three types of dynamic capabilities were key; sensing, seizing and transformation capabilities, to pass to the next stage. The model contributes to a better understanding of the evolution of dynamic capabilities as well as the evolution of the cloud sourcing firm and cloud-based business model innovation.

A dynamic data security mechanism based on position aware Merkle tree for health rehabilitation services over cloud

Cloud computing paradigm has simplified the delivery of diverse services with the federated organization of computing hardware, storage, software, and services. Many organizations have embraced cloud-based business models to cater to the dynamism of clients. Utility computing harnesses the cloud computing infrastructure to provide services on demand to the customers. It frees the clients from the burden of establishing expensive infrastructures, under-utilization, and wastage of resources, etc. Utility computing provides a wide range of services including storage, computing, networking, web hosting, email, groupware, and data center services. Almost all enterprise models are centered on these services to provide reliable solutions to the clients. In recent years, healthcare industries have resorted to cloud-based solutions to deliver services to remote clients. Rehabilitation is a vital component of healthcare, ascribing to the restoration of the physical, mental and sensory elements of patients. Telerehabilitation services are provided over the cloud for convenience of the healthcare providers and clients. However, these services require maintenance of medical records in the cloud storage for immediate access to the patients and caregivers. Data security is an important concern in such environments in protecting the privacy of a patient. It is required to implement stringent mechanisms for proof generation and verification for authentication and integrity checks. This paper presents a novel publicly certifiable method for the above requirements. This approach is based on a position aware Merkle tree, which employs a 3-tuple scheme, which has been testified for its robustness in providing authentication and data integrity services. The experimental results with the proposed system and performance metrics demonstrate the appropriateness of the system in health rehabilitation services.

Cloud Based Business model for SMEs sector in India - Developed and validated cloud computing adoption factors through a study on Indian SMEs

This study is on adoption of cloud computing by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India. This paper, through preliminary survey, finds out different situations for adopting cloud computing services. It was found that SMEs can benefit the most if they adopt cloud services for computation intensive jobs like data mining, optimisation, risk modelling and simulation. The other advantages for SMEs are lowered investment in hardware, more efficient use of computing systems in existing data centres, easier scale-up of the applications and services and cost saving on technology infrastructure and faster software upgrades without much expense. The results can be used by SMEs as decision point for adopting cloud services.

Cloud-based business model for SMEs sector in India - developed and validated cloud computing adoption factors through a study on Indian SMEs

This study is on adoption of cloud computing by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India. This paper, through preliminary survey, finds out different situations for adopting cloud computing services. It was found that SMEs can benefit the most if they adopt cloud services for computation intensive jobs like data mining, optimisation, risk modelling and simulation. The other advantages for SMEs are lowered investment in hardware, more efficient use of computing systems in existing data centres, easier scale-up of the applications and services and cost saving on technology infrastructure and faster software upgrades without much expense. The results can be used by SMEs as decision point for adopting cloud services.

Analiza szans, możliwości oraz wyzwań związanych z wykorzystaniem cloud computingu i Big Data jako technologii konwergentnych

This paper is devoted to the issues connected with the possibilities of common utilization of two technologies i.e. cloud computing and Big Data. These aspects have been analyzed from two perspectives. The first one is related to the possibilities of creation and implementation of the cloud-based Big Data analytical systems. The second one is connected with the utilization of new cloud-based business models and their improvement and development basing on Big Data analytical systems based on cloud solutions. The most significant challenges have been identified in the context of each technology as well as in the context of their common utilization.

Servitization of manufacturing industries based on cloud-based business model and the down-to-earth implementary path

Servitization of manufacturing industries (SMI) is emerging as a new trend all around the world, especially in major manufacturing nations, e.g., USA, Germany, and China, which is believed to be able to upgrade the industry chains and improve the economy. Almost simultaneously, cloud manufacturing (CM) is being generally debated within the academic field as a new manufacturing paradigm. However, little attention was paid to implementing SMI based on cloud-based business model. This paper aims to discuss the ways to make SMI possible through cloud-based manufacturing business model (CMBM) and relevant enabling technologies including CM. Specifically, this paper (1) presents the key elements that motivate SMI and the full definition of SMI; (2) proposes a description of CMBM matching up with the execution of SMI; (3) provides some constructive advices, namely the down-to-earth path, with technology aspects included for the government and enterprises to carry out SMI based on CMBM; and (4) offers a case study related to successful SMI based on CMBM.

Cloud Service Platform

Health Information eXchange (HIX) is a part of Happiness Cloud Service Platform of Happiness Guangdong in Guangdong Province of China based on innovation of cloud-based business model. This article illustrates the hospital health care business services system based on cloud computing. major business functions of HIX includes integrated mobile medical information services, and mobile health information services. Key cloud service platform capabilities include appointment of HIX registration, doctor-patient interaction and Health Manager System, medical statistical analysis, and the other integrated support module including service platform and platform management provided by two major cloud computing technologies of SaaS and PaaS. Medical cloud services of HIX is an innovative business model for cloud computing, that is, the medical and health services provided to the public going though by cloud computing all over Guangdong Province in China.

Breathing Space for Cloud-Based Business Models – Exploring the Matrix of Copyright Limitations, Safe Harbours and Injunctions

Cloud-based services keep forming, changing and evaporating like clouds in the sky. They range from personal storage space for films and music to social media and user-generated content platforms. The copyright issues raised by these platforms seem as numerous as the liquid droplets and frozen crystals constituting clouds in the atmosphere of our planet. As providers of cloud-based services may seek to avoid dependence on creative industries and collecting societies, one of these questions concerns the breathing space that copyright law offers outside the realm of exclusive rights. Which limitations of protection can serve as a basis for the development of new business models? Which safe harbours may be invoked to avoid secondary liability for copyright infringement? Which obligations may result from injunctions sought by copyright owners? After outlining relevant cloud services (section 1) and identifying the competing interests involved (section 2), the inquiry will address these influence factors – limitations, safe harbours and injunctions (section 3). The analysis will yield the insight that the most effective protection of copyright in the cloud is likely to result from acceptance of a compromise solution that, instead of insisting on the power to prohibit unauthorized use, leaves room for the interests of users and the business models of platform providers (concluding section 4).

{BLR 2783} Indigenous Peoples – Patents – WIPO

Biotechnology Law ReportVol. 17, No. 6 {BLR 2783} Indigenous Peoples – Patents – WIPOSome Observations and Current Developments on the Protection of the Intellectual Property of Indigenous Peoples –Opening Address to the WIPO Roundtable on Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples Geneva, July 23 and 24, 1998Prof. Dr. Erica-Irene A. DaesProf. Dr. Erica-Irene A. DaesSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:16 Mar 2009https://doi.org/10.1089/blr.1998.17.747AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byBreathing Space for Cloud-Based Business Models – Exploring the Matrix of Copyright Limitations, Safe Harbours and InjunctionsSSRN Electronic Journal Volume 17Issue 6Nov 1998 To cite this article:Prof. Dr. Erica-Irene A. Daes.{BLR 2783} Indigenous Peoples – Patents – WIPO.Biotechnology Law Report.Nov 1998.747-752.http://doi.org/10.1089/blr.1998.17.747Published in Volume: 17 Issue 6: March 16, 2009PDF download