Innovation Bazaar: Organizing the Exchange of Hospitals’ Local IT Innovations

During the last decades, the software for supporting hospitals’ information systems became more flexible in terms of adaptability and configurability. Some hospitals use these capabilities to create local IT innovations. However, information on these local IT innovations is rarely available, as a preceding Grounded Theory based study revealed. To tackle this shortcoming, a two year action research project with a major German hospital software vendor and its leading customers was conducted. In a first stage, information on local IT innovations among the vendor’s leading customers was gathered and shared. In a second stage, a new position at the IT vendor (called ‘innovation bazaar’) was established to organize the exchange of information about these local IT innovations. As a result of the hospitals’ positive feedback, the vendor is willing to make this exchange sustainable. It expects valuable input for product development, professional service and sales

Systems of IT Innovation – Toward a Research Framework for Integrated Analysis and Intervention

For more than 20 years, interdisciplinary innovation research utilizes systems of innovation (SI) as a valuable core concept for analyzing innovation phenomena at large scale. Until today, this concept has not been referred to widely in information systems (IS) research. In this paper, we argue that SI may serve as a useful study subject for IS research. For analyzing and intervening into systems of IT innovation, a conceptual and methodological foundation is required. Therefore, we developed the outline of a conceptual and a methodological research framework. This framework has initially been used in a research project on the system of IT innovation for hospitals in Germany. Insights from this study were used to further improve the framework

Геометрические и конструктивные соотношения в волновых передачах с промежуточными телами качения

Представлена методика расчёта геометрических и конструктивных соотношений волновых передач с промежуточными телами качения. Предложена методика геометрического расчёта передач с адаптивным генератором и определено влияние погрешностей изготовления деталей на выходную функцию

The Failed Implementation of the Electronic Prescription in Germany - A Case Study

Many countries worldwide are striving for improving the quality of care and for reducing costs in the health care sector by establishing large IT infrastructures. In Germany, the introduction of the electronic health card and the national telematics infrastructure is lagging years behind the original schedule. In this paper, we describe and analyze a case study of one selected part of this ultra-large intervention. The selected part is the failed implementation of the electronic prescription. The related activities started in 2003 and ended in 2010 when a decision was made to abandon this part of the intervention. We present a detailed analysis of the project and identify 14 reasons in five categories for the project’s failure. Furthermore, we provide a multi-layered overview of the episodes and sub-projects

Off to new pastures: Exploring Tensions Between Followers and Leaders in the Automotive Industry Challenging the Adoption of Digital Leadership

The automotive industry is driving digitalization at high speed to optimize operations, gain new business opportunities, and close the gap with new, leading competitors from the IT industry. Although the automotive industry aims for digital leadership (DL) to transfer from antecedent physical products to new pastures of digital services, the adoption is challenged by tensions in the follower–leader relationship (FLR). To identify these tensions for the first time in research, we analyzed DL in the automotive industry from a follower and leader perspective. Based on 25 interviews, the results extend existing research on the adoption of DL in the automotive industry by (a) identifying four configurations of digital leadership adoption stages causing tensions in the FLR which impede the adoption of DL and (b) four strategies for managing the tensions

The Human Factors of Algorithms and Sensor Design

Human-operated systems often suffer from designers’ limited consideration of user capacities and how they impact system performance. In many instances, technological capabilities and constraints drive design decisions. There is often a sense that if it can be done technologically, it will be done. However, this approach can prove to be an unwise appropriation of funds, time, and other resources. Justification should not simply rest on satiating a technology craving

Developing Digitalization Strategies for SMEs: A Lightweight Architecture-based Method

Like larger companies, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to develop and implement digitalization strategies. These help to address necessary organizational- and technology-related changes in order to create competitive advantages. However, SMEs often face specific challenges, including a lack of IT know-how, relevant market information and appropriate methods for developing a strategy. In this paper, we present a lightweight, architecture-based method including its underlying model for the development and implementation of digitalization strategies in SMEs. It was developed by following the Action Design Research (ADR) method and in cooperation with two medium-sized companies. Rather than adopting highly abstract and complex enterprise architecture frameworks, we suggest creating easy-to-use visualizations of the enterprise architecture, the business ecosystem and related cross-layer dependencies. While transferring the discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) into the context of digital entrepreneurship, we derived four design principles helping to enrich the theoretical body of knowledge in this research area