Companies need to be able to demonstrate compliance with rules and regulations, especially start-ups who typically do not have the legal expertise to identify, assess and address legal risks of initial business ideas, nor do they have the resources to hire such expertise. Tools could help them identify and deal with legal risk at an early stage. Existing research in BPM focuses on compliance verification of a consolidated business model by checking the ability of a company to comply with the standards. The challenge is to apply a ‘continuous improvement’ by steering the business on values. Moreover, legal choices typically sit at the strategic level, and not only at the operational level. In this paper, we therefore propose an approach to handle legal risks as part of business model development. The approach makes use of Continuous Business Model Planning method, a value-driven modeling approach for strategic planning, and legal argumentation. The suitability and potential usefulness of the approach is illustrated by a study of the Kenyan court case Lipisha & BitPesa vs. Safaricom.

公司需要能够证明对规则和法规的遵守，尤其是初创企业，他们通常不具备识别、评估和解决初始商业创意的法律风险的法律专业知识，也没有资源聘请此类专业知识。工具可以帮助他们在早期识别和处理法律风险。BPM 的现有研究侧重于通过检查公司遵守标准的能力来对整合的业务模型进行合规性验证。面临的挑战是通过指导业务价值来应用“持续改进”。此外，法律选择通常处于战略层面，而不仅仅是运营层面。因此，在本文中，我们提出了一种处理法律风险的方法，作为商业模式开发的一部分。该方法利用持续业务模型规划方法，一种价值驱动的战略规划建模方法和法律论证。肯尼亚法院案例 Lipisha & BitPesa 与 Safaricom 的研究说明了该方法的适用性和潜在用途。