Swiss Software Industry Survey 2022

In 2022, the unemployment rate in Switzerland fell to a historic low of 2 percent. At the same time, the working population in Switzerland is getting older while net immigration remains constant. These developments are not leaving the Swiss software industry unscathed. Swiss software companies are already fighting fiercely for the few talents on the labor market and know that this war will be fought even more intensively in the near future. The eighth edition of the Swiss Software Industry Survey (SSIS) takes this situation as an opportunity to look more closely at the war for talent in the Swiss software industry. This year's SSIS aimed in particular to discover the extent to which domestic software companies are suffering from the war for talent and what measures they have taken in the past or are planning for the future to meet this challenge. Beyond focusing on labor market challenges, however, the SSIS 2022 remains the most comprehensive study of its kind in Switzerland. As such, it provides a detailed overview of the current state, emerging trends and long-term developments in the Swiss software industry. This year, the SSIS was conducted for the second time under the patronage of Swico, the industry association for digital Switzerland. This patronage ensures the future of the SSIS for the years to come. Besides, it enables us to be as close as possible to the Swiss ICT industry. In this sense, we would like to thank Swico and its Interest Group “Software, Services, and Consulting” for the trust they have placed in us and look forward to working with them in the years to come. As in previous years, we would also like to thank our partners sieber&partners, tranengineering and the Institute for Business Studies Basel (IWSB) as important supporters of the SSIS. We hope you enjoy reading this year’s SSIS Report

A Modeling Approach for Blockchain-inspired Business Models: An Extension of the e3 -Value Method

Blockchain enables new ways of organizing economic activities. Blockchain promises to reduce costs and time associated with intermediaries and strengthen trust in an ecosystem of actors. The impact of this promising technology is reflected in an emerging stream of research and various companies exploring the potential uses of blockchain technology and building new blockchain-inspired business models. While there are promising use cases of this new technology, research and practice are still in their early stages in terms of changing existing and creating new business models. We propose an extension of the e3 -value method to capture and represent the characteristics of blockchain-inspired business models. The approach is particularly useful for the value-based analysis of blockchain-inspired business models and the fundamental economic evaluation of these. It provides the foundation for capturing, communicating, innovating and experimenting with blockchain-inspired business models. We demonstrate the practicality of the extended e3 -value method by evaluating and applying it to an existing blockchain business model

Organizational Capabilities in Emerging Blockchain-Enabled Platform Ecosystems: A Single Case Study of an Asset Tokenization Trading Platform Ecosystem

Ecosystems are emerging in almost all sectors. In the banking sector, they enable the disruption of traditional value chains and the emergence of entirely new types of value creation settings. Actors who engage in such constructs need specific organizational capabilities. This is especially true when particular technologies, in the presented case blockchain technology, are used to enable collaborative value creation between actors. We extend organizational capabilities as previously described in the context of platform ecosystems. For this purpose, we conducted a longitudinal case study of the Swiss blockchain-enabled platform ecosystem in the financial services sector. We analyzed the data using the theoretical perspective of organizational capabilities. Initial results confirm the organizational capabilities but indicate a different distribution reflecting the development stages of the ecosystem. Furthermore, the first new organizational capabilities could already be identified

A Modeling Approach for Blockchain-inspired Business Models: An Extension of the e3 -Value Method

Blockchain enables new ways of organizing economic activities. Blockchain promises to reduce costs and time associated with intermediaries and strengthen trust in an ecosystem of actors. The impact of this promising technology is reflected in an emerging stream of research and various companies exploring the potential uses of blockchain technology and building new blockchain-inspired business models. While there are promising use cases of this new technology, research and practice are still in their early stages in terms of changing existing and creating new business models. We propose an extension of the e3 -value method to capture and represent the characteristics of blockchain-inspired business models. The approach is particularly useful for the value-based analysis of blockchain-inspired business models and the fundamental economic evaluation of these. It provides the foundation for capturing, communicating, innovating and experimenting with blockchain-inspired business models. We demonstrate the practicality of the extended e3-value method by evaluating and applying it to an existing blockchain business model