{"title":"Enhancing Innovation with social recommendations","authors":"Miquel Sonsona, E. Almirall","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461374","url":null,"abstract":"Based on previous experiences in the field of Innovation Forums conducted by IBM, we develop our own system, InnoJam, within the frame of the Laboranova integrated project. These systems aim at fostering innovation in rather big groups of participants, in the case of IBM, several tens of thousands. Our approach works upon the idea of augmenting social capacities, key factors to give more value for organizations and participants in these kind of forums. It implements them by means of visualization elements and social recommendations, with producing a boost in participation always in mind.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134208832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel business models formanufacturing firms","authors":"K. Georgoulias, N. Papakostas, G. Chryssolouris","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461386","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a series of novel business models, employed in modern manufacturing firms, are investigated. Their structure and operation are presented and analyzed. Traditional business models have been pursued with minor variations for a long time. The economic recession, however, has now intrigued stakeholders to think over some of the elements found in the current business models. Flexibility on manufacturing, pricing, research and development, supply and marketing are reconsidered. In order to evaluate the applicability of the proposed business models, they are studied in the shoe manufacturing sector, where both automated machining and labour intensive manufacturing activities are present.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122669362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge management, value chain modelling and simulation as primary tools for Mass customization","authors":"Joanna Daaboul, A. Bernard, F. Laroche","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461385","url":null,"abstract":"Even though it is an attractive strategy, Mass customization (MC) is not feasible in all environments, and when it is, it presents many challenges to be dealt with [Aigbedo 2007 and Helms, et al. 2008]. Therefore, an extensive study on how to implement MC is needed before the actual implementation. Collaboration is a necessity in a MC environment, whether between the customer and the company, the company and its supply chain partners, or the different members of the company's value chain. Knowledge management is a tool that assures this collaboration by better capturing, storing, and reusing data. In addition deciding on whether to implement MC or not is not an easy task; simulation can be used as a decision support system by evaluating the company's performances. This paper presents Knowledge management, value chain modelling and simulation as tools for MC implementation, applied on the shoe industry under a European project named DOROTHY.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130595042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is “Understanding” a misunderstanding?","authors":"C. Diamantini","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461389","url":null,"abstract":"Key factors that make a discipline or approach scientific are the ability to define unifying explanatory and/or predictive models and the ability to evaluate and compare the ideas within the area. In this short paper I'll try to defend the following thesis: in the “Science of Interoperability” evaluation and comparison is hindered by the lack of precise goal statements and of measures to assess the attainment of that goals, and this is at least in part related to models and theories that at present have the favour of the research community in formalizing the notion of understanding.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133070562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative product development at a global scale: The role of PLMIT solutions","authors":"S. Terzi, M. Taisch","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461422","url":null,"abstract":"Globalisation is not only a manufacturing question, but it is a complex phenomenon affecting also the world of product development. Global Product Development (GPD) is a unified product development process where design teams work collaboratively on a single process or product across multiple geographic locations; this process often involves countries with a low-cost labour structure. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Information Technologies (IT) are playing their role in GDP, allowing product data sharing among distributed engineering centres. Many multinational companies are tightly investing for adopting the most advanced PLM solutions. Even if GDP seems to be a phenomenon only for big companies, also some Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are facing it, supported by PLM techniques. The present paper aims at investigating the relationship existing among GDP and PLM in Italian companies, presenting the results of an empirical study conducted in 21 enterprises.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"108 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133292903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards semantic interoperability in an evolving environment","authors":"Johann Eder, Julius Kopke","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461391","url":null,"abstract":"The interoperability between different business parties is a major issue in Enterprise Integration. As the world is not static and all things tend to evolve also enterprises evolve. Unfortunately, interoperable applications make the complex task of information system evolution even more complex. This has the consequence that changes are very expensive or that they are simply not realized. This results in static structures which are not fully suited to deal with the Enterprises needs. Changes happen on the syntactic and the semantic level. A change on the syntactic level can be a simple rename of a field in an exchanged document. A change on the semantic level is typically the case if the domain changes. This means that the meaning of data is changed. There are conflicting constraints for solutions supporting semantic interoperability in evolutionary enterprises: The necessity of expressive languages for formulating the changes and the consequences including the formulation of transformations on the one hand and the requirement for a very high throughput and the computation of a large number of instance documents on the other hand. We therefore introduce an architecture which is intended to combine scalability with complex reasoning. Ontological languages and tools, transformation of XML documents and the techniques for knowledge compilation are the basis for finding a viable and affordable solution.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"14 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117020639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Co-creating in practice: Results and challenges","authors":"I. Mulder, P. Stappers","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461369","url":null,"abstract":"The European Network of Living Labs has been established as one platform for collaborative and co-creative innovation, where users are involved in and contribute to the innovation process. However, what are current practices regarding user-driven open innovation? A review on how existing Living Labs in Europe have implemented the user as co-creator approach across the different stages of product and service innovation showed an emphasis on the Lab part, i.e., a predominant use of traditional methods, but less so on the Living part, i.e., methods of participation and co-creation. In this article, we illustrate how current methods stressing participation and co-creation can be deployed to strengthen current Living lab practices. We conclude with a discussion on the results and challenges to practice co-creation in practice.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115691259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Zarvic, H. Duin, M. Seifert, K. Thoben, Robert E. Bierwolf
{"title":"Collecting end user requirements playfully","authors":"N. Zarvic, H. Duin, M. Seifert, K. Thoben, Robert E. Bierwolf","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461419","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a novel approach for collecting end user requirements. Our approach is based on two serious games and allows the end users to act as players in an artificial and virtual environment, which is supposed to reflect realistic business processes at the end users. The first game is representing such a simulation and enables the players to go through all the phases of the VO (virtual organisation) life cycle. Thus the players experience all activities beginning from the preparation and formation, over the operation and management, to the dissolution of a networked organisation. Hidden needs are identified during this process, which are in the second game further refined by means of idea generation processes. In this paper we provide a detailed description of our requirements elicitation method, including first promising and satisfactory results, as well as a first evaluation of the approach.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115229624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Stanescu, I. Dumitrache, C. Burileanu, N. Vasiliu, M. Moisescu, I. Sacala
{"title":"ARCHE3S: First Living Lab enabler in Romania aiming at cross domain synergy-based approach to sustain SMEs","authors":"A. Stanescu, I. Dumitrache, C. Burileanu, N. Vasiliu, M. Moisescu, I. Sacala","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461433","url":null,"abstract":"The \"Living Laboratory\" represents, at first glance, a solid metaphor for the networked, knowledge-based, flexible, adaptive new organizational model within global economy to be consolidated in the next decades! But, the vision to consolidate the LL network in common Europe is a must! Beyond the innovate thinking in business, the new LL-collaborative cross-border networks, promoting the new methodology, methods, open source software tools and goodlbest practices, within a unique, homogenous pan European electronic market are sustainable in the benefit of each country economy and for macro-economy in common Europe. The acronym ARCHE3S is described by the following public-private initiative: Automation, Robotics, Computers Science, Healthcare, Energy, Efficiency, Environment sectoral activities, focused on coherent, consistent, & competitive System of Systems approach. University \"Politehnica\" Bucharest launched the \"ARCHES\" Living Lab aiming to create a synergy-oriented platform, for the first time in Romania. The \"ARCHE3 S \" Living Lab is going to undertake the status of National Relay Centre working within the Knowledge Region in South-East Europe.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121536850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Baseline IT-Services to support Enterprise Collaboration","authors":"Patrick Sitek, M. Sesana, Hong Linh Truong","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461399","url":null,"abstract":"Enterprise Collaboration (EC) is a widely discussed subject. Due to this fact a variety of different opinions can be formed mainly based on the scientific discipline behind it. From our understanding Enterprise Collaborations are based on inter-organisational relationships between network members. The analysis and support of those relationships was one of the main objectives of the COIN IP project. In the first year of the project the main objective for the Baseline Enterprise Collaboration (EC) Services team was to consolidate and harmonise results from previous RTD projects concerned with Enterprise Collaboration. As a scientific result EC Baselines Services are able to support most dynamic enterprise collaborations, like Business Ecosystems, by harmonisation of individuals and organisations profiles under the same model.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125515572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}