Measuring organizations’ readiness for collaboration and accordingly knowledge managementhas been a topic for years. With the emergence of Web 2.0 and its new possibilities for moreeffective collaboration, it has become increasingly relevant to determine the maturity of anorganization in...

The number of companies operating globally is constantly increasing. In order for these companies tooperate globally, they require a global view of processes and their implementation in globalenterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. These ERP systems allow to integrate an...

...Kaum haben die Unternehmen den Wandelzu Blended Learning verinnerlicht, beginntdie Ära des Workplace Learning 2.0.Bei den neueren Ausprägungen des arbeitsintegriertenLernens kommen gewichtigeformelle Weiterbildungen wieberufsbegleitendes Online-Fernstudiumebenso wenig vor wie langwierige...

Introducing electronic collaboration (e-collabora-tion) is not a matter of introducing new software, but it is a matter of introducing new, and if applied correctly, more efficient working processes and methods (i.e., e-collaboration capability). As a first step before intro-ducing a...

...Auf den Prinzipen des Web 2.0 basierende unternehmensinterne Anwendungen stellenVerantwortliche in den Unternehmen vor spezifische Herausforderungen, wie z.B. dieBerücksichtigung von Organisationsstrukturen und -prozessen. Diese Herausforderungengehen über die Anforderungen des...

Stable component models are an essential prerequisite for developingcustomer-individual business applications. Thereby the information for theidentification and specification of their components is gained from domainmodels. Reference models constitute a potential source for building...

IT-Dienstleister sind zunehmend gefordert, ihr Serviceportfolio konsequentauf die IT-Unterstützung von Geschäftsprozessen der Kunden auszurichten.Dadurch können Diversifikation sowie Transparenz in den IT-Ausgaben und ihremstrategischen Wertbeitrag beim Kunden erreicht werden. Für eine...

The transparency created by enterprise models is avaluable support for organizational engineering andespecially enterprise transformation. However, current approaches are hardly suitable to also create transparency of the enterprise transformation process itself. The paper at hand contributes a...

IT service providers are increasingly required to orientate their service portfolio towards the IT support of their consumer’s business processes. This enables diversification as well as transparency in costs andservices vis-à-vis the customer to be achieved. Such services however, appear too...

One of the challenges in manufacturing companies nowadays is to enableappropriate IT support of production planning and execution. Integrated solutionsneed to cover company‐wide and even cross‐company business processes (fromorder receipt to product distribution) and at the same time live up...