4 research outputs found
Will They Die Another Day? A Decision Support Perspective on Reusing Electric Vehicle Batteries
The diffusion of electric mobility suffers from an immature and expensive battery technology. Reusing electric vehicle batteries (EVBs) is a prospective opportunity for lowering the total costs of ownership of electric vehicles and using scarce natural resources more efficiently. However, to determine how to reuse a battery is a complex decision problem. In this study we set out to develop a design theory for a class of decision support systems (DSSs) that implement two main functions: First, a consideration set of feasible reuse scenarios is compiled based on an assess-ment of a batteryâs structure and condition. Second, an offering is configured based on bun-dling batteries with customized services. We conclude with an outlook to our ongoing design science project that will, amongst others, explore to what extent systems instantiated from the design theory can remedy adverse effects caused by the âlemon marketâ properties of the sec-ond-hand battery market
Integrating a Method for Achieving Activity-Oriented Sustainability into the Design Science Research Methodology
Sustainability increasingly becomes an effective argument in the public and academic discourse. However, in the scientific design process of IT artifacts, the notion of sustainability is often misused. IT artifacts and consequences resulting from their operation are characterized to be sustainable without truly reflecting the meaning of the characteristics of sustainability. By subscribing to a view of sustainability as a characteristic of an activity, we propose a method for the systematic integration of sustainability into the design of IT artifacts. Our so-called âactivity-oriented sustainability methodâ is situated within the design science research methodology (DSRM) and allows to perform an ex-ante domain-specific sustainability analysis of activities, which are supported by an IT artifact. This article contributes to research and praxis by spurring discourse on the consideration of sustainability in design research endeavors and by providing a method for the systematic integration of sustainable activities into IT artifacts
Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2016: Technische Universität Ilmenau, 09. - 11. März 2016; Band III
Ăbersicht der Teilkonferenzen Band III
⢠Service Systems Engineering
⢠Sicherheit, Compliance und Verfßgbarkeit von Geschäftsprozessen
⢠Smart Services: Kundeninduzierte Kombination komplexer Dienstleistungen
⢠Strategisches IT-Management
⢠Student Track
⢠Telekommunikations- und Internetwirtschaft
⢠Unternehmenssoftware â quo vadis?
⢠Von der Digitalen Fabrik zu Industrie 4.0 â Methoden und Werkzeuge fĂźr die Planung und Steuerung von intelligenten Produktions- und Logistiksystemen
⢠Wissensmanagemen