A strategic view on what to open
Company perspective
8.4.2016
Martin von Willebrand
@mvonwi
Asianajotoimisto HH Partners Oy
12.4.2016
www.hhpartners.fi
Presentation
• Business law firm, 11 lawyers
• Technology : ICT procurement, out-sourcing, r&d, licensing, IPR
matters, litigation
• Open Technologies: collaboration structures, open source, open
data, open apis, open innovation
• MvW: Head of Technology, Partner, Attorney-at-law
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Open source in the enterprise
Participation in open source projects
Opening products as a strategy
Viewpoints
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Open Data Biz
Author/researcher viewpoint
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Open source software in the enterprise
1. (Using open source)
– ”Others have put into open”
2. Contributing to open source projects
– ”We are opening our IPR”
3. Publishing
– ”Our strategy includes opening of products”
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Participation in OSS projects
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Linux is done by companies
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Participation in OSS projects
• Benefits in participating to projects
– When next version of the company’s product comes, less
work in adapting the OSS
– Company slowly gains access to projects that are central to
its business  direction to projects given
– Increased benefit from OSS community
– Meaningful way of working for developers
– Improved relation with OSS community  risk
management perspective
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Participation in OSS projects
• Drawbacks in participating to projects
– Cannot 100 % control project
– What can competitors see?
• Collaborate in areas where there is no/little
competitive advantage
– Contributor license agreements etc.
• Management, policy required
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Area to collaborate v. competitive advantage
Competitive advantage
Open source sw stack used in
products
Software supplied to customers
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One company looking at IoT:
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Opening products as a strategy
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Vaadin.com
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Vaadin.com
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Vaadin.com
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Open products
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Gain users, gain revenue
In order to increase market share
Strategical controlling of/impact on the market
Disrupt others
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Area to collaborate v. competitive advantage
Competitive advantage
Open source sw stack used in
products
Offering to customers
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Open Data Biz
• Opening data creates value
• Activities/businesses (Source: Matti Rossi 25.4.2014 (*))
– Extract & Transform
– Data analysis
– User Experience Provider
• New biz created to others than data publisher
• Data publisher benefits (Matti Rossi)
– Prevents Vendor Lock-In; Transparency; Quality Control
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(*) Matti Rossi: http://www.slideshare.net/mattirossi/open-data-research-talk-at-copenhagen-business-school-on-25042014
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Author/researcher viewpoint
• Where is your competitive advantage (CA)?
• How to best maintain and improve your CA?
• How to best increase demand for your CA?
• (Elmer open source project at CSC)
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Thank you!
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seminar on Open data and open access publishing. Copies
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