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...

“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...

Ideas competitions appear to be a promising tool for crowdsourcing andopen innovation processes, especially for business-to-business software companies.Active participation of potential lead users is the key to success. Yet a look at existingideas competitions in the software field leads to the...

More and more companies realign their competencies to offer integrated bundlesof products and services with the goal to solve customer problems (Leimeister etal. 2009). The customers are not interested in products or services per se, but theywant their problems to be solved (Böhmann und Krcmar...

Eine möglichst vollständige Erfüllung von Kundenanforderungen und eine Differenzierungvon Wettbewerbern sind zwei Faktoren, die produzierende oder dienstleistungsanbietendeUnternehmen beeinflussen (Böhmann und Krcmar 2007,Leimeister und Glauner 2008). Deswegen ändern viele Unternehmen ihre...

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...

Germany is introducing a nation-wide health telematics infrastructure that enables various electronic health services (EHS). Little is known about the burdens and drivers for potential adoption of these innovations. Based on a quantitative study among German physicians participating in pilot...