Utilize a set of practical guidelines to help your Agile organization elevate software design quality as an important business driver to achieve customer satisfaction and, ultimately, higher revenue for your company. This is the first book to focus on a holistic quality view-what it is and how...

Matthias Bertram aims to develop a deeper understanding of software customization and its strategic role for software product management. Drawing on the conceptual foundation of the resource-based view of the firm, such as resources, capabilities, and dynamic capabilities, the author conducts...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2016, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2016. Software business refers to commercial activities in and around the software industry aimed at generating income from the delivery of...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Software has changed the rules of the game. The world talks about the digitalization in industry and society - how the focus has shifted from producing tangible things towards software and services. This trend started many years ago, but is now...

How does one of the world’s biggest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suppliers develop software? How do Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and Co really work? Christine Grimm presents a first-hand account of a social researcher who entered the software laboratory of one of the biggest ERP providers....

Open Innovation (OI) Communities besitzen ein immenses Innovationspotenzial. Jedoch ist die Absorptionsfähigkeit von Unternehmen begrenzt, sodass nur ein Bruchteil dieses Potenzials in der Innovationsentwicklung berücksichtigt werden kann. In diesem Spannungsfeld untersucht Ivo Blohm die...

The relevance of software business models has tremendously increased in recent years. Markus Schief explores opportunities to improve the management of these models. Based on a conceptual framework of software business model characteristics, he conducts large empirical studies to examine the...

Industrielle Cluster und ihre Wirkungsweise -- Beschreibung und Abgrenzung der Softwareindustrie in Deutschland -- Methoden zur Identifikation von industriellen Clustern -- Messung der Innovationskraft und Produktivität in der Softwareindustrie -- Softwarecluster in Deutschland gemessen an der...

Introduction -- Theoretical and Conceptual Foundation -- Preliminary Research Model -- Research Design -- Descriptive Findings -- Single-Case Analysis -- Cross-Case Synthesis -- Summary and Discussion -- Conclusion. .

This book takes an in-depth look at the software industry as a major factor in future global economic performance. It explores how software-based companies are a significant factor behind economic growth and serve as important bridge builders between industries. Countries with a weak and...