86 research outputs found
Respecting the deal: how to manage co-opetitive actors in open innovation
Platforms like E-bay allow product seekers and providers to meet and exchange goods. On the same way in open innovation, as defined by Chesbrough, an enterprise can collect ideas from outside the company. But on E-bay, the seeker can return the product if it does not correspond to the expectations, since E-bay is the third-party actor in charge of assuring that the agreement between seekers and providers will be respected. So who does provide the same service for what concerns open innovation, where specifications might not fully defined? In this paper we shall describe the business model of an organizational structure to support the elicitation and respect of agreements between actors, who have conflicting interests but that gain from cooperating together. The concepts of the model will be illustrated to derive a set of propositions and a simple example will illustrate one of its possible instantiations. The description of our first evaluation phase shall find place at the end
Human and value sensitive aspects of mobile app design: a Foucauldian perspective
Value sensitive concerns remain relatively neglected by software design processes leading to potential failure of technology acceptance. By drawing upon an inter-disciplinary study that employed participatory design methods to develop mobile apps in the domain of youth justice, this paper examines a critical example of an unintended consequence that created user concerns around Focauldian concepts including power, authority, surveillance and governmentality. The primary aim of this study was to design, deploy and evaluate social technology that may help to promote better engagement between case workers and young people to help reduce recidivism, and support young people’s transition towards social inclusion in society. A total of 140 participants including practitioners (n=79), and young people (n=61) contributed to the data collection via surveys, focus groups and one-one interviews. The paper contributes an important theoretically located discussion around both how co-design is helpful in giving ‘voice’ to key stakeholders in the research process and observing the risk that competing voices may lead to tensions and unintended outcomes. In doing so, software developers are exposed to theories from social science that have significant impact on their product
A framework to evaluate the viability of robotic process automation for business process activities
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a technology for centralized automation
of business processes. RPA automates user interaction with graphical user
interfaces, whereby it promises efficiency gains and a reduction of human
negligence during process execution. To harness these benefits, organizations
face the challenge of classifying process activities as viable automation
candidates for RPA. Therefore, this work aims to support practitioners in
evaluating RPA automation candidates. We design a framework that consists of
thirteen criteria grouped into five perspectives which offer different
evaluation aspects. These criteria leverage a profound understanding of the
process step. We demonstrate and evaluate the framework by applying it to a
real-life data set.Comment: This is an accepted manuscript for the "RPA Forum" at the "Int.
Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2020)". The final
authenticated version is available online at
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58779-6_1
Contracting out information technology in public service contexts: research and critique
Contracting out information technology in public service contexts: research and critique
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