Projects

Software Business Foundations – "Laying Foundations for Research, Creating Business Impact through Industry Co-operation"

Software Business Foundations a three-year project (2006-2009) which aims to reason the unique nature of software that makes conventional engineering and business practices less applicable to software business. The project aims at establishing the theory base for software business and integrating software business research with contributions in related disciplines, such as management, organizational studies, information systems and software engineering.

VERGO - "International Growth, Competitiveness and Market Power of Vertical Software Firms"

VERGO is a three-year project (2007-2009), and its research focuses on success factors for growth, competitiveness, and market power in international vertical software businesses.

VASPO - "Change-driven Software Organization"

VASPO is a three-year project (2006-2009), conducted in collaboration with University of Oulu and University of Jyväskylä. Its research focuses on management and improvement of change-driven software organization, and aims to deliver academic results and practical guidelines for improving, changing, and managing a successful software development organization.

Internationalization Clinic

Internationalization Clinic is a program that intends to internationalize the Finnish software industry. The clinic brings together the top leaders, firms and researchers of software business and aims at, among other goals, analyzing and developing internationalization plans, as well as encouraging and coaching the top leaders for internationalization. The program is organized as a part of The Frisbee Project.

OSKARI – The Annual Finnish Software Industry Survey

OSKARI is an annual survey of the Finnish software industry coordinated by the Software Business Laboratory (TKK). The survey's objective is to provide information about the current situation of the Finnish software product companies, the main focus being the size and growth of the industry, as well as internationalization.

Past projects

FRISBEE – "Freeway to Internationally Competitive Software Product Business"

Research focuses on internationalization of software product companies. The project will deliver concrete guidelines and approaches for preparing, managing, and growing a successful international software product company. As a whole, the Frisbee Project aims to help software product based businesses to become international faster and more successfully and to substantially strengthen current knowledge base in the area of software business research.

Parabiz - "Productization of ICT Services: a platform approach"

This project aims at studying the productization of services in the ICT field. In a case study, platform thinking is tested as a development structure for services. The research is done in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Services, who also finances the research. The outcome of the research will be Researcher Kaius Perttilä's master's thesis.

CAPISTUS – "Capabilities and Infrastructure of the Software Product Industry"

The Capistus Project will provide an in-depth classification of the software product industry that goes beyond those currently available in Finland and globally, to inquire about the characteristics of Finnish companies in each of the identified subsegments of the software product industry, and to explore the infrastructure and capability environment of the industry subsegments. It will also seek advances towards reaching a framework for the evaluation of prospects of individual software product companies and industry subsegments to provide the required knowledge base for optimal decision-making of relevant parties and stakeholders.

Sofia – "Organization and Management of the Software Development Process"

This project involves the study of how to organize large-scale software development and how can the activities of the software process benefit of the knowledge created in the realm of industrial management. This project is positioned in the intersection of software engineering and industrial management, an area ripe for novel contributions from scholars of the emerging field of software business. The project is fully financed by the industry. People: Jyrki Kontio, Markus Mäkelä, and Maija Perttula.

D-Cap – "Dynamic Capabilities in Software Product Development"

This project further strengthens the Software Business Laboratory's research stream that attempts to cross the chasm that separates the bodies of knowledge of the fields of software engineering and industrial management. The project will deepen our understanding of the entire process of bringing high-quality software products to the market in time and without exceeding the budget – a major concern of the technology management and planning function of a software company – by employing a dynamic capabilities lens. Financier: Academy of Finland. People: Markus Mäkelä.