TSMA Yearbook 2018

94 2018 Yearbook Control five elements and four cores to create service-business opportunities in Platform as-a-Business era The feature of Platform as-a-Business is to pool group intelligence and resource to create new demand-and-supply markets. Customers do not need to shoulder the transferred cost which large- scaled enterprises monopolize supply chains. In addition, all different forms of waste in-between like resource, labor and time. It is different from the traditional service categories and able to transform the technological applications, business modes and consumption values. It also reshapes the manufacturing, structure, service division and supply chain system of the global industries. IEK proposes the suggestive definition of Platform as-a-Business, covering five elements: 1) idle resource: to reuse or re-circulate the incomplete used idle resource such as space, objects, human resource etc.; 2) online internet: users can obtain all kinds of idle resource on the internet and then share via P2P multiple Source Industrial Technology and Research Institute, IEK (April 2017) Diagram 1 IEKInsight: Five elements of Platform as-a-Business way; 3) instant convenience: to get all sorts of resource ownership on the internet platform or social club at any time; in the demanding ma r k e t , i t c an conne c t the demand and supply; 4) social club sharing: no matter tangible asset or intangible digital resource, online social club can make the connections and create more social intelligence and cohesion within a social club; 5) platform value: with the assistance of the third party on the online platform, they crate mutual benefits for each other and make it sustainable. • There’s a market of user demands • To share the use right of assets via P2P multiple methods