Der Durchdringungsgrad von IT nimmt in Krankenhäusern stetig zu. Hierbei lässt sich grundsätzlichzwischen administrativen und medizinischen IT-Systemen unterscheiden. Die vorliegende Studieuntersucht den wahrgenommenen Wertbeitrag von IT in Krankenhäusern aus Perspektive vondrei wichtigen...

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...

“Crowdsourcing” is currently one of themost discussed key words within the openinnovation community. The major question forboth research and business is how to find andlever the enormous potential of the “collectivebrain”. This research in progress paper providesan approach for finding...

Recent research has shown that companies face considerable difficulties in implementing a value-based management of theirIT portfolios. This paper therefore presents an approach for measuring and managing the business value of IT investments.To ensure practicability, our approach is derived from...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore whether online communities meet their potential ofproviding environments in which social relationships can be readily established to help patients copewith their disease through social support. The paper aims to develop and test a model to...

Carve out projects have recently become an emerging issue in practice and theory given the diversityof strategic foci of companies as well as recent merger and acquisition activities of firms. This paperhighlights the relevance of IT in such carve out projects. IT depicts their characteristics...

Carve Out Projekte, bei denen die Herauslösung von Unterneh-mensteilen zu eigenständigen Einheiten im Vordergrund steht, finden in der Forschung bisher kaum Beachtung. Die Rolle der IT als Schnittstellenfunktion birgt bei solchen Reorganisationen und Desinvestitionen allerdings große...

Die Implementierung neuer Services in Fahrzeugen ist meist mit derEntwicklung neuer Bedienelemente und Anzeigen verbunden. Ein vereinfachenderAnsatz für die Gestaltung der Benutzerkommunikation für tertiäre Aufgaben imFahrzeug kann dabei die Verwendung eines flexiblen Avatarsystems...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a hot topic in retail supply chain management[Behrenbeck, K¨upper et al. 2004]. Yet, a recent study predicts “that the true benefits of RFIDfor retailers will be in enhanced marketing opportunities” [Sharpless 2005]. Research on RFIDfor marketing...