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BUSINESS PROCESS FRAMEWORK FOR E-LEARNING SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS DEVELOPMENT



                          3 REVIEW OF APPLICATION                                    4 DISCUSSION

                     3.1 Activity Model Implementation.                  Based  on  the  proposed  activity  model  of
                         The  proposed  activity  model,  mainly       segments comparison Fig. 3, it is possible to
                     based  on  Hoppe  and  Michael’s  Activity        conclude  that  the  researched  company
                     model  prototype,  is  shown  under  the          cannot be categorized  under any  individual
                     ‘Role’column  in  Figure  2.  In  adapting  the   specific  segment  identified  in  Hoppe  and
                     model  in  the  said  company,  the  effort       Michael. Nevertheless, the activities carried
                     contribution for each activity is given under     out   during    the   e-learning   solutions
                     ‘Effort’ in Figure 2. Applicable suggestions      development process can be categorized into
                     are  also  proposed  for  each  activity  under   different  segments  separately.  Solution
                     ‘suggestions’as in the Figure 2.                  provider’s  role  in  product  design,  didactic

                         As an  example,  in the company  where        planning,  software  provision,  promotion,
                     the model has been researched, the product        learning  process  and  support  service
                     designing  and  price  setting,  didactic         activities  can  be  categorised  as  either  in
                     planning,  software  provision,  promotion,       house or outsoursed. The company in which
                     learning process related services and support     the  research  was  carried  out,  they  were
                     activities  are  done  in-house.  Content         carried  out  in  house  as  a  full  service
                     generation,   hardware     provision    and       provider.  Product  pricing  act  as  same  as
                     packaging are partially outsourced. Product       other  segments.  In  Content  generation  the
                     distribution is fully outsourced.                 company acts as an application provider.
                     3.2 Asset Model and Market Implementation                      5 CONCLUSION

                         Asset  model  of  the  organization  is  a         Adapting  a  business  model  in  an
                     combination of earning revenues by selling        organization is  crucial to its  success. For  a
                     e-learning  products  based  on  list  prices,    start-up  company  it  is  better  to  define  the
                     revenues  by  brokerage  come  from  fees  or     parameters as simple as possible. Further, as
                     commissions for bringing together interested      adaptation to new technology it is better to
                     parties  and  for  facilitating  transactions,    use Business Modeling Tools.
                     advertising  messages  can  be  posted  by  a
                     supplier of e-learning products.                       Hoppe  and  Breitne’s  Activity-Asset-
                                                                       Market  Models  based  e-business  process
                         The applications of the market model could not be   model provides a process plan to a company
                     reserched  due  to  the  limitation  of  time  in   for  growth  in  asset  managent  and  activity
                     conducting the reserch.
                                                                       management  and  it  provides  a  way  to
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                              Figure 3: Comparison of proposed activity model (in blue colour) with Segments



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