Institutionalizing Analytic Data Sharing in SME Ecosystems – A Role-Based Perspective

Abstract

There is a variety of reasons that sharing data among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) carries business potential, particularly for analytical applications. But outside a few niche domains, the number of success stories for data sharing is rather modest. Based on a qualitative study and first experiences from a research project with pilot implementations, we argue that this is mainly due to a lack of an institutionalized governance structure: Founding a separate legal entity for data sharing and analysis can address core concerns regarding sharing valuable data assets. However, this requires a well-calibrated set of defined roles for the involved partners. Based on our results we propose a first concept on delineating and mapping out those roles.

Kooperative Smart Services in der smarten Fabrik/Cooperative smart services in the smart factories - Requirements for managing smart service data in the value network

“…Die Ergebnisse sind nach Kuckartz und Rädiker [19] auf vergleichbare Rahmenbedingungen übertragbar. Aus diesen Herausforderungen wurden sechs Anforderungen abgeleitet, die bereits in weiteren Veröffentlichungen [9,21,36] identifiziert wurden. Der Aufwand für die Generierung und Erhebung von Daten wird nach Einschätzung der Experten nicht ausreichend honoriert.…”