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Enabling decentral collaborative innovation processes - a web based real time collaboration platform
The main goal of this paper is to define a collaborative innovation process
as well as a supporting tool. It is motivated through the increasing
competition on global markets and the resultant propagation of decentralized
projects with a high demand of innovative collaboration in global contexts. It
bases on a project accomplished by the author group. A detailed literature
review and the action design research methodology of the project led to an
enhanced process model for decentral collaborative innovation processes and a
basic realization of a browser based real time tool to enable these processes.
The initial evaluation in a practical distributed setting has shown that the
created tool is a useful way to support collaborative innovation processes.Comment: multikonferenz wirtschaftsinformati
An Interactive Web-based Application as Educational Tool for SCM Course by Using FOSS
This paper presents the application of free/open source software
(FOSS) for teaching and learning one specific topic in Supply
Chain Management (SCM) course. In the last few years, there is
abundant FOSS for educational tools. However, educator still
faces problems to implement such an education FOSS for
improving the quality of education i.e. customizing of software
function, developing of a specific educational media, and
illustrating of a course content. The purpose of this research is to
design an educational tool for increasing efficiency in conveying
subject matter especially distribution problem. It has a module of
real distribution problem in commodity paddy was captured. We
crated an interactive Web-based application by using WSDL,
PHP and My SQL, and SOAP. The result of the research will be
able to improve the pedagogic approach for learning of SCM
course.
Keywords:
Educational tool, FOSS, interactive media, SCM course
Design dis-integration Silent, Partial, and Disparate Design
Michael Porterâs frameworks for analysing and planning competitive differentiation (Porter 1980, 1985) are established âtextbookâ tools, widely taught to business students today. As the claim of designâs strategic importance is increasingly heard, we ask where does design fit in established strategy thinking?
This paper documents a proposed conceptual model based on Porterâs value chain model for strategic planning. The concept outlined is the result of the first stage of a larger study of designâs potential role at strategic level and the difficulties faced by organisations in exploiting design strategically. This exploratory phase comprised a review of literature on design management and models of strategy, followed by nineteen interviews with senior design professionals. These then informed a novel revision of the value chain diagram reflecting the strategic role of design, and the identification of three key phenomena concerning design integration (silent design, partial design and disparate design). These phenomena are also represented in modified versions of the value chain.
This overall project follows a research approach based on the design research method and on procedural action research, and aims to develop a tool or method to help organisations increase design integration. This project is ongoing, and the results will be published separately.
Keywords:
Strategic; value chain; silent; partial; disparate; integrated</p
The TASTE Toolset: turning human designed heterogeneous systems into computer built homogeneous software.
The TASTE tool-set results from spin-off studies of the ASSERT project, which started in 2004 with the objective to propose innovative and pragmatic solutions to develop real-time software. One of the primary targets was satellite flight software, but it appeared quickly that their characteristics were shared among various embedded systems. The solutions that we developed now comprise a process and several tools ; the development process is based on the idea that real-time, embedded systems are heterogeneous by nature and that a unique UML-like language was not helping neither their construction, nor their validation. Rather than inventing yet another "ultimate" language, TASTE makes the link between existing and mature technologies such as Simulink, SDL, ASN.1, C, Ada, and generates complete, homogeneous software-based systems that one can straightforwardly download and execute on a physical target. Our current prototype is moving toward a marketed product, and sequel studies are already in place to support, among others, FPGA systems
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