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Jukka Kääriäinen, Leila Saari, Katri Valkokari, Arto Wallin & Pasi Pussinen

Platform economy describes a phenomenon in which platforms bring together different actors (such as buyers and sellers) and enable the exchange, co-creation or sharing of information, goods and services between the parties.

Leila Saari & Katri Valkokari

Can joint offerings create novel business opportunities for software solution providers? Which are the roles of the actors providing a software solution together? What kind is the interaction between the actors? These questions were discovered in the SEED ecosystem project, where several large forest industry companies open their challenges to a group of software companies. In SEED context the companies with challenges are called use case owners and the software companies are solvers.

Antero Karvonen & Pertti Saariluoma

The difference between traditional and future industrial processes will be in the extent, role and nature of human thought, perception and action. Currently we are somewhere in between. Traditional technology is predicated on the necessity of human guidance and input for steering the processes. Since at least the advent of computers and servomechanisms, this role has been changing. For example, many harbors are largely automated today. Equally, many planes can take off and land with minimal human intervention.

Helena Kortelainen, Pasi Valkokari & Jyri Hanski

Lifecycle management helps to optimize performance requirements and the incurring costs over the asset life cycle, as well as to cope with uncertainty. Digitalisation shifts the focus from data collection to data utilization. More than ever we need knowledge – the ability to structure and interpret information.

Olli Kuusisto

Make the most of users’ knowhow, experiences and ideas in system development. Remember also to take into account the possible needs to change operation models and data management.

There are large sector-specific differences in productivity with room for improvement, especially in manufacturing and construction.

The value of tacit knowledge has been recognized in organizations in a new level. Tacit knowledge brings value and is an important asset to the organization. With tacit knowledge, we can dig deeper into the issues in organizations and transfer knowledge embedded in people and ICT-systems better.