Business Patterns

A Business Pattern is a common design of either a process or data that is used in various business model.

E.g. PartyPattern

http://BusinessPatterns.org is a non-profit established for the sharing and collections of Business Patterns.

See also OrganizationalPatterns

Business alliances and partnering, communications, marketing and other strategies / business models could be covered too.

See Richard Veryard (author of ComponentBasedBusiness) explanation of BusinessPatterns at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rxv/cbb/cbb-businesspatterns.pdf