Business Building Blocks
The business building blocks provide guidelines to make strategic decisions. In data spaces oriented towards the public sector, these blocks can help you consider financial sustainability and the value you provide to stakeholders. In a profit-oriented endeavour, this can help you understand how to package products and services and communicate value to your customers. In all cases, they help clarify how to interact with stakeholders to make your data space viable and valuable.
At the core of this pillar is the relationship between the data products and services available via the data space you have available, the ways your operators, intermediaries, and customers can use those products and services, and how this fits into a financially sustainable business model. Data space offerings (made up of data and the requisite services) feed use cases, which are the foundation of your business model (Figure 1).
But where to start? You might have interesting data and want to build compelling use cases, or you might already have use cases and need to find the right data to make them work. You might already have a relationship with the operators and intermediaries that will run the basic infrastructure and give the data space life, or you may build out from your business model. Start with the block that fits your situation, and build from there.