CAPABILITIES TO ACHIEVE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AGILITY – RESEARCH MODEL AND TENTATIVE RESULTS

The class of business intelligence (BI) systems is used as a basis for decision making in most big organizations. Extensive initiatives have been launched to accomplish adequate and timely decision support as an important factor to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. Within turbulent market environments it is challenging to keep up a distinguishable long-term strategy while quickly reacting to changing circumstances. This area of conflicts holds particularly true for BI as it is originally used to retrospectively reflect an organization’s performance and built upon stability and efficiency. Therefore, we investigate how dynamic BI capabilities, i.e. adoption of assets, market understanding and intimacy as well as business operations, impact the agility of BI. We approach our goal from a dynamic capability perspective. Starting from a literature review of dynamic capabilities of information systems (IS) and BI, we propose hypotheses to connect dynamic BI capabilities and BI agility. Derived hypotheses based on existing literature will be tested in our prospective research agenda. A small pre-study showed promising results. In-memory (IM) technology seems to be a technology enabler for agile BI. However, adoption of BI assets and the focus on market orientation and business operations may even intensify the positive effect

Exploring the Future Shape of Business Intelligence: Mapping Dynamic Capabilities of Information Systems to Business Intelligence Agility

A major challenge in today’s turbulent environments is to make appropriate decisions to sustainably steer an organization. Business intelligence (BI) systems are often used as a basis for decision making. But achieving agility in BI and cope with dynamic environments is no trivial endeavor as the classical, data-warehouse (DWH)-based BI is primarily used to retrospectively reflect an organization’s performance. Using an exploratory approach, this paper investigates how current trends affect the concept of BI and thus their ability to support adequate decision making. The key focus is to understand dynamic capabilities in the field of information systems (IS) and how they are connected to BI agility. We therefore map dynamic capabilities from the IS literature to agility dimensions of BI. Additionally, we propose a structural model that focusses on DWH-based BI and analyze how current BI-related trends and environmental turbulence affect the way that BI is shaped in the future

An Exploration on the effectiveness of face-to-face and virtual meetings in educational projects dealing with impact innovation

Which is the most effective format for meetings in a project dealing with impact innovation? This paper presents the results of a survey amongst 42 business school students experiencing face-to-face or virtual meetings during their MBA classes. Qualitative interviews and a personality test clarify the results. A significant majority of students rated face-to-face meetings as more effective for the ideation phase of the projects, which contains predominantly brainstorming. The results show no clear tendency for the phase of research and preparation for the final assignment as well as for a written report. For presentations, the majority considers face-to-face meetings as more effective

Photon drag effect in (Bi1−xSbx)2Te3 three-dimensional topological insulators

We report on the observation of a terahertz radiation-induced photon drag effect in epitaxially grown nand p-type (Bi1-xSbx)(2)Te-3 three-dimensional topological insulators with different antimony concentrations x varying from 0 to 1. We demonstrate that the excitation with polarized terahertz radiation results in a dc electric photocurrent. While at normal incidence a current arises due to the photogalvanic effect in the surface states, at oblique incidence it is outweighed by the trigonal photon drag effect. The developed microscopic model and theory show that the photon drag photocurrent can be generated in surface states. It arises due to the dynamical momentum alignment by time-and space-dependent radiation electric field and implies the radiation-induced asymmetric scattering in the electron momentum space. We show that the photon drag current may also be generated in the bulk. Both surface states and bulk photon drag currents behave identically upon variation of such macroscopic parameters as radiation polarization and photocurrent direction with respect to the radiation propagation. This fact complicates the assignment of the trigonal photon drag effect to a specific electronic system

Analog of microwave-induced resistance oscillations induced in GaAs heterostructures by terahertz radiation

We report on the study of terahertz radiation-induced MIRO-like oscillations of magnetoresistivity in GaAs heterostructures. Our experiments provide an answer on two most intriguing questions-effect of radiation helicity and the role of the edges-yielding crucial information for an understanding of the MIRO (microwave-induced resistance oscillations) origin. Moreover, we demonstrate that the range of materials exhibiting radiation-induced magneto-oscillations can be largely extended by using high-frequency radiation

Abstracts from the 8th International Conference on cGMP Generators, Effectors and Therapeutic Implications

This work was supported by a restricted research grant of Bayer AG

Entwicklung neuer Kupfer-Phosphat- bzw. Phosphit-Katalysatoren und Thioharnstoff-Organokatalysatoren

In dieser Arbeit wurden neuen Kupfer-Phosphat bzw. Kupfer-Phosphit Katalysatoren angefertigt. Diese Katalysatoren enthalten entweder TADDOL-Phosphat oder TADDOL-Phosphit als Gegenionen. Diese chiralen Kupfer(I)-Salze können durch oxidative Halogenierung in die entsprechenden Kupfer(II)-Salze umgewandelt werden. Weiterhin können diese chiralen Salze mit einem Liganden (BOX, AzaBox) versehen werden. Diese Katalysatoren wurden erfolgreich in der Nitro-Aldol und Michael-Addition eingesetzt. Zur Modifikation der Katalysatoren wurden neue Menthon und Fenchon basierende Liganden synthetisiert. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit handelt von der Synthese bifunktioneller Thioharnstoffe für die Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaktion. Der dabei synthetisiert Katalysator erwies sich aber als inaktiv in der Reaktion. Anhand einer Kristallstruktur konnten Rückschlüsse über die Inhibierung gewonnen werden. Die Erkenntnisse führten zu Modifikationen des Katalysators. In einem Ausblick werden weitere Möglichkeiten und Verbesserungsvorschläge aufgezeigt

In-Memory Technology and the Agility of Business Intelligence – A Case Study at a German Sportswear Company

The retail industry has changed significantly due to altered shopping behavior of customers and technological advancements in recent years. This enforces organizations to quickly adapt to these dynamically evolving circumstances. Most of the major organizations utilize Business intelligence (BI) to support their corporate strategies. Therefore, the adaptability of BI gained increasing importance in theory and industry practice over the last years. Agility is particularly challenging in the domain of BI since the underlying architecture of enterprise-wide decision support with data warehouse (DWH)- based BI is not built upon agility, but on reliability and robustness. Although the usage of agile project approaches like Scrum has been explored, there is still a lack of research investigating further effects on BI agility. Hence, we analyzed whether the characteristics of DWH and BI impact the agility of BI in an in-depth case study at a globally operating German sportswear designer and manufacturer. In particular, we want to identify if a technology like in-memory can help to achieve more BI agility. The findings indicate that IM technology acts as a technology enabler for agile BI. The impact of some DWH characteristics on BI agility is significantly positively influenced if IM technology is used