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...

Research has shown that idea competitions are apromising approach for integrating customers intoopen innovation activities. Furthermore research onopen innovation shows that most innovations are theresult of intensive collaboration processes in whichmany individuals contribute according to...

Electronic services delivered over the Internet are gaining importance in the business world. Thisarea has seen an increase in scientific interest over the past years under the labels “Internet ofServices” and Web-service ecosystems. The paper develops a conceptual framework of actors...

This paper presents a research project called “GENIE”. It aims at developing a concept for integratingexternal stakeholders into a company’s innovation management through a virtual community. This novelinstrument for opening up a company’s innovation process towards external stakeholders...

This Research in Progress paper analysesusers’ requirements for the development of aVirtual Community (VC) for the academic SAPUCC (University Competence Center) UserGroup. The SAP UCC User Group consists oflecturers and students using SAP Software foreducational purposes. Initially, we are...

Unternehmen im produzierenden Bereich sehen sich einem erhöhten Preis- und Wettbewerbsdruck gegenüber. Gewinnmargen liegen bei Produktherstellern immer weniger im physischen Produkt als in dazugehörigen Dienstleistungen. Doch auch Dienstleistungsunternehmen stehen in zunehmendem Wettbewerb.[...]

Im internationalen Vergleich liegt die Innovationstätigkeitvon deutschen Softwareunternehmen nicht auf Spitzenniveau. Arbeitsforschungkann hier als wichtiger Innovationstreiber fungieren. Im folgendenBeitrag wird als Beispiel hierfür das Forschungsprojekt...