e-BEST - Empowering Business Ecosystems of Small Service Enterprises to Face the Economic Crisis |
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The eBEST project addresses small companies (typically with less than 50 employees) providing services to other businesses, often by subcontracting, in different industrial sectors. In general the intended service companies perform added-value activities in the intermediate phases of the value chain and/or in the repair and maintenance phases. The goal of the eBEST project is moving such companies from a situation where they struggle with each other to survive, towards a vital and rational business environment where collaborations are frequent and dynamic, and companies remain independent and autonomous but contribute all together to the evolution of their ecosystem as a whole. The eBEST project strategic objective is to set-up, experiment and promote the adoption of new collaboration practices within each business ecosystem and across the ecosystem borders, taking advantage of a shared knowledge, an agreed corpus or rules and codes of practice, and a suite of ICT tools to support the intended ecosystem dynamics. |
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Added value for SMEs Bringing SMEs vital and rational business environment instead of struggle competition by collaboration. Providing the target companies with easily accessible ICT applications and services to enable communication and collaboration within ecosystems and with the external world. Experimenting and improving in real-life conditions the functional coverage and user acceptance of the proposed approach, methodology and ICT functions. Besides the pilots foreseen by the project work plan, additional clusters of small companies are asking to undergo the eBEST test and validation phase with the aim of verifying the suitability of the eBEST solution to their respective problems. They include a group of 12 companies acting the maintenance of fuel distribution plants, and a group of 6 companies providing jointly a global service offer. rch engine, negotiation support functions, collaboration support functions, integration with legacy systems. |
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Download the project description in PDF. |
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More information: www.ebest.eu |
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