Hybride Wertschöpfung, verstanden als Bündelung von Produkt,Dienstleistung und Software zu einer kundenindividuellen Gesamtlösung, wird häufigals Erfolgsformel zur Erschließung neuer Geschäftsfelder gesehen. Wie aber „macht“man hybride Wertschöpfung? Wie können die einzelnen Elemente...

This paper describes a single sign-on solution for the central management of health care provider’s smart cards in hospitals. The proposed approach which is expected to be an improvement over current methods is made possible through the introduction of a national healthcare telematics...

The Internet has spurred a phenomenal growth of virtual communities (VC). VCs can range fromsimple information exchange based forums to more complex networks supporting new productdevelopment. For example, communities of interest based forums such as investment-relatedVirtual Communities bring...

Carve-outs belong to the most disruptive events companies – especially IT departments – are subject to. Yet the impact of these events on the IT alignment of the involved business units is largely unknown. This paper utilizes an alignment model to analyze specific IT-related challenges of...

Innovations expressed by customers are often unstructured, unclear, and ambiguous, making it difficult to interpret customers’ contributions, integrate them into a company’s R&D department and transfer them into comprehensible requirements for the development of product, service or software...