E3value User Guide Designing Your Ecosystem in a Digital World Ecosphere Edition

E³value User Guide

Designing Your Ecosystem in a Digital World

Ecosphere Edition

Jaap Gordijn and Roel Wieringa

E³value User Guide
Designing Your Ecosystem in a Digital World
Ecosphere Edition

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Edition:
2021 02 12: First release
2023 05 10: Second Release
2026 08 31: Updated Ecosphere Edition

Published by:
The Value Engineers B.V., Soest, NL
contact@thevalueengineers.nl
Soest, The Netherlands
KvK: 69731101

Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Value networks
1.2 Innovation
1.3 Value models
1.4 When to use e³value
2 Value Networks
2.1 Actors
2.2 Market segments
2.3 Value activities
2.4 Partnerships
3 Economic Transactions
3.1 Value objects
3.2 Value ports
3.3 Value transfers
3.4 Value interfaces and value transactions
3.5 Value offering and bundling
3.6 Value interfaces of market segments
3.7 Value interfaces of value activities
3.8 Value interfaces of partnerships
4 Dependency Elements
4.1 Customer needs
4.2 Boundary elements
4.3 Dependency paths
4.4 And-dependencies
4.5 Or-dependencies
4.6 Dependency graphs
5 Quantification
5.1 Properties
5.2 Customer need occurrences
5.3 Sizing market segments
5.4 Quantifying or-dependencies
5.5 Cardinality dependencies
5.6 Same-object bundling
5.7 Transaction choice ratios
5.8 Valuations of a value transfer
5.9 Expenses
5.10 Investments
5.11 Computing property values
6 Net Value Flow Analysis
6.1 Traces
6.2 Net value flow analysis of an actor
6.3 Net value flow analysis for a market segment
6.4 Net value flow analysis of a value activity
6.5 Net value flow analysis of a partnership
7 Discounted Net Value Flow Analysis of a Time Series
7.1 Time series
7.2 Naive net present cash flow analysis
7.3 Discounted net present cash flow analysis
7.4 The cost of risk
7.5 Discounted net present cash flow computation in the time series tool
A The e³value Ontology
B Properties
Actor
And-dependency
Boundary element
Customer need
Cardinality dependency
Cardinality connection point
Market segment
Or-dependency
Or connection point
Transaction choice
Value activity
Value interface
Value offering
Value port
Value transfer
Value transaction
C The e³value Expression Language
C.1 Object names and identifiers
C.2 Properties
C.3 Absolute navigation paths
C.4 Relative navigation paths
Bibliography
Index