Fraunhofer IESE has collaborated with the DIHK to design a digital ecosystem for register modernization in order to realize opportunities through platform business models for commercial registers. To this end, IESE has tailored and applied its proven and flexible methods for modeling ecosystems to the context of register modernization in a specific application.
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What it's all about:
Fraunhofer IESE and DIHK seize the opportunities offered by register modernization
The challenge:
How can commercial registers benefit from the mechanisms of the platform economy?
The support:
Fraunhofer IESE assists DIHK in designing the Digital Ecosystem
The result:
Validated concept for implementing the amendment to the commercial registers
Your advantages:
Fraunhofer IESE as your partner for digital ecosystems
The German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (hereinafter referred to as DIHK) is planning to amend the legally prescribed trade registers. This is happening against the backdrop of the opportunities and challenges on the horizon presented by the Register Modernization Act (RegMoG) as a supplement to the Online Access Act (OZG). The DIHK's vision is to create a digital ecosystem in which opportunities can be realized through platform business models. In particular, the focus is on the added value of user-centricity – on the part of both DIHK customers and employees.
The design of such a digital ecosystem requires consideration of various dimensions, including legal and regulatory frameworks as well as the organizational structure of the DIHK and its chambers. Due to the complexity of the system landscape, the technical dimension requires meticulous conceptual work to identify all relevant requirements and dependencies. Finally, in the business dimension, the possibility of creating new added value and, as a result, new revenue models should be used to develop a sustainable business model for the DIHK and all partners.
Digital Ecosystems, with their platforms that connect multi-sided markets to create new value, are complex by nature. This challenge is significantly increased in the context of the revision of commercial registers due to the involvement of the public sector: the interests of a wide variety of parties—from government institutions to private individuals to large companies—must be taken into account appropriately. There is therefore a need for suitable methods to make this complexity manageable. Common approaches focus primarily on purely private-sector business models, which are not applicable in this context. Consequently, the DIHK sought a partner who could create and apply tailor-made methods.
Fraunhofer IESE can look back on its experience in successfully designing Digital Ecosystems in a wide variety of industries. In addition, IESE has been working successfully with the public sector for many years, from the municipal to the federal level. By combining this expertise with methodological excellence in software engineering, Fraunhofer IESE is able to develop customized approaches that meet the specific needs of the DIHK's work context.
Fraunhofer IESE has enabled the DIHK and its chambers, as well as IT service providers, to systematically explore the topic of a Digital Ecosystem and its significance for commercial registers – starting with the big vision and moving on to questions of the operational implementation of such an ecosystem in the DIHK.
Specifically, Fraunhofer IESE has developed a workshop format based on the proven “Tangible Ecosystem Design” method and uses approaches from creativity research to generate specific ideas for register reform. Based on these methodological preparations, Fraunhofer IESE organized and moderated a face-to-face workshop with representatives of all key interest groups. The core of a Digital Ecosystem was jointly developed, taking into account the legal, technical, and business aspects of modernizing commercial registers in the context of the DIHK. The approach was applied iteratively: Following an initial workshop, Fraunhofer IESE refined and completed the concepts developed in the workshop to enable further coordination with the project participants and follow-up workshops.
Fraunhofer IESE documented the results in the form of a presentable concept for a Digital Ecosystem in the context of the revision of the commercial registers. In addition to documenting the methodological approach and the concepts developed, IESE worked out concrete measures for implementing the Digital Ecosystem. These measures were broken down into operational steps for the DIHK and will be worked on in further follow-up projects together with Fraunhofer IESE.
This is according to Helmut Burger, Head of Administrative Digitization and Registers at the IHK Organization, German Chamber of Industry and Commerce:
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