eBusiness Promotion in Finland Current issues

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eBusiness Promotion in Finland Current issues

• Antti Eskola
• Ministry of Trade and IndustryHelsinki,
  Finland
• eBSN Steering Group Meeting
• Brussels, 25 June 2005

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eCommerce in Finland 11.5 of total sales of
enterprises in 2003
Amount not directly comparable to previous years
due to improved coverage of survey
Billion
Orders by web form 4.2 of total sales of
Finnish enterprises
(Orders made by email not included)
Orders in EDIFACT, XML, etc. formats(over the
internet or dedicated networks) 7.3 of total
sales of Finnish enterprises
Source Statistics Finland
3
of enterprises
Staff / persons
Source Statistics Finland
4
Share of SMEs using various business software
/services
ERP
CRM
SCM
KMS
ASP
Survey among SMEs in Greater Helsinki Region,
Spring 2003, n476
Helsingin Chamber of Commerce
5
SME business process integration in Finland and
six benchmark countries
Small Medium Large
Small Medium Large
Source OECD Information Technology Outlook 2004,
p. 127, Eurostat
6
Serious barrier less of a barrier7 6
5 4 3 2 1
Barriers to SME eBusiness Adoption
Helsinki Chamber of Commerce survey to SMEs in
Capital Region 2003
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Public sector support to SMEs in eBusiness
Development

• Implementation
• -evaluations /
• -contracts
• -specifications
• deployment
• training

• Drawing up a project
• plan
• requirement specifications
• invitations for tenders
• schedule

R D financing Tekes
ESF finacing TE-Centre

• Drawing up a development
• plan
• processes, skills, technology

Development Aid TE-Centre
Assesment of development needs
Investment Aid TE-Centre
ICT Development Service Tekes
eAskel TE-Centers
Verkkokaveri Information Service -TIEKE
Mentoring
Systematic use of procedures and tools
R D Projects
8
Employment and Economic Development Centres in
Finland
provide assistance to SMEs ICT adoption
1. Uusimaa, Helsinki 2. Southwestern Finland,
Turku 3. Satakunta, Pori 4. Häme, Lahti 5.
Pirkanmaa, Tampere 6. Southeastern Finland,
Kouvola 7. South Savo, Mikkeli 8. North Savo,
Kuopio 9. North Karelia, Joensuu 10. Central
Finland, Jyväskylä 11. South Ostrobothnia,
Seinäjoki 12. Ostrobothnia, Vaasa 13. Northern
Ostrobothnia, Oulu 14. Kainuu, Kajaani 15.
Lapland, Rovaniemi
15
13
14
12
8
9
11
10
5
7
3
4
6
2
1
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Current Themes in eBusiness Promotion

• information security
• eInvoicing as a leader application to eBusiness
  adoption
• raising the awareness of significance of IT in
  business
• emphasising strategic view of IT in business
• interoperability, standardisation issues
• promoting eCommerce, mCommerce with
  eIdentification
• identifying good regional eBusiness promotion
  projects
• documenting successful modus operandi of regional
  actions
• promoting networking of regional actors
• considering overall national strategy on
  eBusiness promotion