AbstractIn this paper we compare different approaches and show the need for systematic requirementsengineering for hybrid products beyond disciplinary boundaries. Hybrid products consist ofcombinations of hardware, software and service elements. The purpose of this paper is to report ona...

Health care services in German hospitals are causing immense expenses. Successful IT Governancemight help to support specific challenges for every organization with an adequate use of IT. Themarket structure of hospitals in Germany is very heterogeneous, e.g. in size and sponsorship. Thispaper...

In diesem Beitrag werden zwei verschiedene Skalen zur Durchführung von Teilnehmerbewertungenin Ideenwettbewerben auf ihre Validität untersucht. Dafürwerden diese mit einer unabhängigen, validierten Expertenbewertung verglichen.Auf Basis von Kreuztabellen wird gezeigt, dass eine einfache...

In this paper we describe a generic model of a patient health portal, which is suitable to implement patient access to the evolving German healthcare telematics infrastructure. The portal uses the telematics as a communication infrastructure to ensure the concise and secure exchange of medical...

Der Personal Health Manager (PHM) ist ein IT-gestütztes Bewegungsprogrammum körperlich inaktive Menschen an einen aktiveren Lebensstil heranzuführen.Für den PHM wurden Software, Hardware, persönliche und computervermittelteDienstleistungen zu einer kostengünstigen und...

Kunden wünschen zunehmend Komplettlösungen, welche ihre Probleme ganzheitlich lösen, ohne dass sie selbst noch Integrationsleistungen erbringen müssen. Diese Komplettlösungen bestehen oftmals aus Produkt-, Dienstleistungs- und Softwarekomponenten, welche zu einem hybriden Produkt integriert...

In the field of Open Innovation, virtual communities set up by companies in order to integrate customers into their innovation process are a new and promising instrument.[...]

“Crowdsourcing” is currently one of the most discussed key words among IS and innovation researchers. The major question for both research and business is how to find and lever the enormous potential of the “collective brain” to broaden the scope of “open R&D”. Thus, Communities for...

Purpose: Drawing from literature on innovation, strategy and culture the objective of this study is toexplore the role of perceived potentials and perceived strategic importance on CIOs’ perspective on RFIDtechnology in two different cultural settings.Methodology: Based on survey responses...

Our analysis of seven companies from the German medical engineering industryrevealed that product-service-systems play a central role in value creation. Customer solutionsare highly individual and often consist of a medical product and corresponding servicesspanning the complete product life...