{"title":"BrainSpace® - A distributed cognitive system for innovation","authors":"A. Ninck, Maurus Busser, Vera Ninck","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461405","url":null,"abstract":"The problems managers face increasingly gain of complexity, and innovation takes place more and more beyond the boundaries of the enterprise. Therefore new methods and tools are necessary to foster multiple stakeholder relationships and manage distributed knowledge creation. This paper addresses some of the key considerations for collaboration and innovation, and derives an integral approach which combines different web-based tools and methods to a distributed cognitive system. Sustainable solutions require procedures that combine the effectiveness of a team with the creative power and the expertise of a community. BrainSpace fills this gap, and allows innovation to proceed in a complex environment by striking a balance between order and creative chaos.","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":"121800112","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":"Living Labs in Open Innovation Functional Regions","authors":"R. Santoro, Marco Conte","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461431","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the conceptual framework of a new emerging mechanism to support the innovation and product development processes for the European Industry: the “Living Lab”. Living Labs are open innovation environments in real-life settings, in which user-driven innovation is fully integrated within the co-creation process of new services, products and societal infrastructures in a regional harmonized context (the “Open Innovation Functional Region”) catalyzing the synergy of SMEs Collaborative Networks and Virtual Professional Communities in a Public, Private, People Partnership. In recent years, Living Labs have become a powerful instrument for effectively involving the user at all stages of the research, development and innovation process, thereby contributing to European competitiveness and growth. This paper aims at identifying the conceptual framework for Living Labs implementation within Open Innovation Functional Regions, highlighting the various different phases of the implementation cycle as well as the expected benefits and impact for Industry and Society.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"62 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":"116554936","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":"Design of customer driven shoes and multisite factory - DOROTHY","authors":"P. Pedrazzoli","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461384","url":null,"abstract":"European Shoe Manufacturing faces an intense and growing competitive pressure brought forth by developing countries, which are entering the global market offering low-cost workforce for the production of labour-intensive, low value added products. Moreover, these countries are rapidly modernizing their production methods and enhancing their technological capacities. This paper reports on the basic concepts of DOROTHY, a just started EU funded RTD program, aimed at transforming the shoe industry and its related business model to strengthen Europe's ability to compete in terms of high added value for the customer (as cost-based competition is not compatible with the goal of maintaining the Community's social and sustainability standards). This transformation relies, on one hand, on the development of tools for the design of customer driven adding value shoes and, on the other hand, on the realization of tools for the design, configuration and reconfiguration of flexible multi-site multi-nation production factories, meant to manufacture those customer driven shoes. This paper will present the key concept meant to actualize the vision to “design customer driven shoes everywhere, manufacture them intelligently anywhere” as a crucial challenge for the shoe industry to gain competitiveness in the global markets, also through better cooperation (and not only competition) with low-wage countries.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"17 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":"114791879","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 decision making in Oil & Gas","authors":"K. Kristensen, D. Fanguy","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461426","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents selected findings from a comprehensive study on collaborative practices in the oil & gas industry. The study documents how companies in the Oil & Gas industry utilise collaborative work environments (CWEs) to support collaborative decision making and achieve business objectives, and how technology is applied to support collaborative work processes. The survey further identifies and explores common shortcomings and bottlenecks experienced by companies trying to realise the potential value of collaboration. The survey concludes with a discussion of mission critical capabilities for Oil & Gas companies that are interested in using collaboration as a strategic enabler of productivity, decision making and knowledge sharing.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"38 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":"130978655","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":"Technical architecture for configurable working environments for SMEs","authors":"D. Langenberg, Jerzy Dryndos","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461381","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborations between SME are different than the traditional OEM-supplier chains. Here are other requirements in the focus of interest: Low costs are often more important than powerful and complex software products as well as flexibility to integrate with any kind of application is more necessary than already available integration solution for big enterprise application, which are only sporadic used in SMEs. Therefore the CoVES (Collaborative Virtual Engineering for SMEs) project followed a new approach for flexible integration of web applications in collaboration environments. The approach differs from the currently promoted service oriented architectures. This paper focuses on two technical aspects of the CoVES architecture: Mashup concept, which is a technology for a seamless integration of web applications, and Single Sign On for an easy access on the distributed data sources.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"8 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":"123110330","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}
G. Fantoni, R. Apreda, P. Valleri, A. Bonaccorsi, M. Manenti
{"title":"IPR tracking system in collaborative environments","authors":"G. Fantoni, R. Apreda, P. Valleri, A. Bonaccorsi, M. Manenti","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461427","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper illustrates a novel model for collaborative crowdsourcing and other collaborative environments where IPR tracking and protection constitutes a key issue. After a comparison between different approaches for innovation and R&D, the new architecture is introduced, with a focus on problem solving activities. The study also investigates the complex IPR framework necessary to involve firms and to promote users' participation exploiting simultaneously collaboration and meritocracy. The paper also presents an original software application tool for tracing and tracking the IPR generated in collaborative and Open Innovation environments. The software's use and results are demonstrated through a case study.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"21 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":"115951004","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":"Evaluating AHP as multi-stakeholder decision tool","authors":"Luuk P. A. Simons, V. Wiegel","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461367","url":null,"abstract":"The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is increasingly used as decision support method in concurrent innovation projects with multiple stakeholders. AHP is welcomed for supporting procedural justice, which regards transparency and fairness of decisions. This is useful for policy settings, with diverse stakeholder interests, for prioritization questions with diverse criteria or for allocation of scarce resources. However, AHP's promises for procedural justice are partly grounded in its supposed numerical accuracy. We show that the numerical basis of AHP is not as unambiguous as current `AHP standard practice' suggests. By contrast, AHP can contribute to the other criteria for procedural justice (efficiency and participation), which may explain AHP's continuing and growing popularity. We conclude that the research and practitioner community should on the one hand continue to develop AHP's procedures for full participation of all types of stakeholders, while on the other hand finding solutions to the accuracy problems.","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":"122213197","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":"Design of multi-agent decision support for configurations of manufacturing networks","authors":"H. Kuehnle, U. Bergmann, A. Luder","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461424","url":null,"abstract":"A procedure for decisions on network adaptations is outlined, which is based on criticality and complexity thinking. For the development of methods for decision-making and control of manufacturing networks, models of Complex Adaptive Systems and Concurrent Enterprising have been successfully introduced to manufacturing network decision support on the MES level. These decision support set ups, exploiting the self-similarity principle, may be seen as just one specification of a decision support procedure, which is valid for manufacturing networks on all levels. Synthesis of the self similarity principle with the criticality thinking results in efficient decision support procedures for gradual and evolving adaptations of manufacturing networks' structures reducing management complexity.","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":"132154630","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}
Pekka Siltanen, Juhani Tenhunen, R. Setchi, Lily Diaz
{"title":"Modern technical documents for global users - usability vs. efficient production","authors":"Pekka Siltanen, Juhani Tenhunen, R. Setchi, Lily Diaz","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461441","url":null,"abstract":"Globally used technical documents need to be understood by users who have different cultural and educational backgrounds. Documents should preferably be visual, but such documents are difficult to produce and maintain. In this article visualisations of technical information are categorised according to taxonomy of visual representation elements, which is then evaluated against cultural dependency, language dependency and required professional knowledge. Based on the categorisation, we propose how visual documents with less cultural dependencies can be produced so that they can be reconfigured if the product changes by applying single sourcing methods used in text document production.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"45 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":"116978719","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. Kazi, T. Ristimaki, O. Balkan, Mehmet Kurumluoglu, J. Finger, T. Šuštar
{"title":"Model-based collaborative virtual engineering in textile machinery industry: Living lab case study","authors":"A. Kazi, T. Ristimaki, O. Balkan, Mehmet Kurumluoglu, J. Finger, T. Šuštar","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461383","url":null,"abstract":"Client demand for on-of-a-kind products and services is leading to a paradigm shift in the way organisations, and especially SMEs collaborate to design, customise, configure, and manage specialised products and services. This paper presents the findings from a living lab case study of a textile machinery manufacturing SME that uses the concept of model-based collaborative virtual engineering and supporting tools in the form of a mashed-up model-server environment to support the needs of its mobile engineers. Initial findings reveal that use of such an environment provides real-time (on the finger-tips) access to relevant data through a single interface, reduces rework, provides real-time updates, supports on-the-move interactive collaboration, decreases meeting times, and allows for better response to and satisfaction of client needs.","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":"125825944","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}