Developing Toolboxes
Pasi Tyrväinen · Contributions to management science · 2009
The manager’s Toolbox for OSS/BSS software market analysis is being developed for the analysis of the market during the SmarTop project, and is based on the data sources described in Section “Data sources used”. The method for analysing a vertical software industry which has been elaborated and used in this book is described shortly below; this method can be applied for the analysis of other vertical software markets as well as for the creation and expansion of manager’s toolboxes similar to the one in Chapter 15. The vertical software industry analysis method used has the following main phases: Baseline creation Indicator calculation Analysis Scenario creation Scenario evaluation Figure 1 visualizes the first three phases related to data collection and analysis while the two latter phases are related to formalizing the results as scenarios. The five main phases are described next. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.