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Table 4 Opportunities of future software organizations

From: Future software organizations – agile goals and roles

Enabling

NEEDS for Software Competences and Resources / Roles

Cost innovation:

• Same service or product can be implemented, provided and serviced with a lesser cost but similar quality.

• Moving digital data costs less than moving physical goods.

• Software component in goods allows reduction of the production costs compared to physical / hardware components.

• Shared computational services / more IP-addresses enable to enlarge the networks and computational capacity – and e.g. new business with shared services.

• Thinking whole chain from production to consumer some steps can be streamlined for business opportunities.

• How could software change Your company (industrial engineering and operations management) [2, 32, 33]?

• CAPABILITIES: 1) 4)

Business innovation:

• smart products and services

• new business models in digital economy

• What is the role of software in Your industry going to be [3, 5, 30, 34, 35]?

• CAPABILITIES: 2) 3)