The Evolution of Small and Medium Enterprise in Digital Business Ecosystem; Accelerating The Evolution and The Need for Web 2.0 and Visualization

Author

Salam, Maher ; Steenkamp, Annette Lerine ; Khoury, Fadi

Author_Institution

Lawrence Technol. Univ., Southfield, MI

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The pursuit of digital business ecosystem (DBE) means to digitally socialize, collaborate, negotiate, operate and automatically orchestrate business services in an open and self organizing environment. The essence of this paper is to suggest a stage based evolution of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) added to a list of interrelated techniques and concepts that would accelerate DBE environments evolution. DBE Distributed Knowledge Base (DKB) and Web 2.0, via its breakthrough capabilities (i.e. attractiveness of voluntarily participation, Open API, service mashup [13], social networks, knowledge sharing and more), are the backbone of the suggested techniques.

Keywords

small-to-medium enterprises; virtual enterprises; Web 2.0; digital business ecosystem; distributed knowledge base; small and medium enterprise; Acceleration; Cascading style sheets; Collaboration; Consumer electronics; Ecosystems; Mashups; Organizing; Social network services; Visualization; YouTube; Collaboration; Digital Business Ecosystem; Small and Medium Enterprises; Visualization; Web2.0 Attractiveness of participation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2008. ICTTA 2008. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Damascus

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1751-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1752-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4529983

Filename

4529983