{"title":"Collaborative Resilience in Agri-Food Supply Chains: Decision Framework and Empirical Analysis","authors":"Shikha Aggarwal;Alok Raj","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2025.3624292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2025.3624292","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates how resilience can be enhanced in agricultural supply chains in developing countries. Based on the expert input and a comprehensive literature review, it identifies nine critical drivers of collaborative resilience. Using the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory method within a multicriteria decision-making framework, the article maps causal relationships among these factors. A resilience-oriented culture emerges as the central enabler, with joint planning, forecasting, and communication proving more effective than isolated policy or risk management efforts. The research offers a structured roadmap for fostering resilience through strategic collaboration.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":"54 2","pages":"145-162"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148519160","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":"A Model for the Roles of AI Providers in Business Ecosystems","authors":"Zahra Aziminejad;Soroush Ghazinoori;Mahdi Elyasi;Mohammad Naghizadeh","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2025.3599086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2025.3599086","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the global landscape has experienced rapid and transformative changes across multiple domains, including economics, healthcare, transportation, agriculture, defense, and entertainment. These shifts are predominantly driven by advancements in various technologies. Organizations that provide these key technologies are increasingly adopting roles that extend beyond mere technology provision, becoming integral participants in industries and business ecosystems. Consequently, they contribute directly to the ultimate value delivered to customers. Among these transformative technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) has garnered considerable attention for its significant impact on both personal and business sectors. This article aims to define a model for the roles of AI providers within business ecosystems. To achieve this, it first analyzes the structure of business ecosystems that emerge around new key technologies. Subsequently, it introduces AI technology and the distinctive business ecosystems associated with it. Finally, this article presents a conceptual model that delineates the roles of AI providers within various business ecosystems, accompanied by examples from leading AI providers worldwide to illustrate the conceptual model's practical application.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":"54 2","pages":"47-62"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148517289","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}
Yuta Hirose;Robert Phaal;Clare Farrukh;Nathasit Gerdsri;Sungjoo Lee
{"title":"Navigating Organization-Wide Roadmapping Through Maturity Assessment","authors":"Yuta Hirose;Robert Phaal;Clare Farrukh;Nathasit Gerdsri;Sungjoo Lee","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2025.3605130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2025.3605130","url":null,"abstract":"Organization-wide roadmapping enables alignment across departments and business units with overarching strategic objectives, ensuring that functions, such as research and development, operations, product and service development, marketing, and finance, share a common understanding of priorities and timelines. However, achieving this alignment is challenging for many organizations. This is because roadmapping is inherently flexible and adaptable, often requiring a complex integration process involving a broad range of stakeholders. To address these implementation challenges, the authors carried out a series of industrial case studies, which led to the development of an organization-wide roadmapping maturity model and a set of analytical dimensions. A further challenge then emerged regarding how organizations could effectively utilize the maturity model to deliver practical benefits in roadmapping implementation. This article addresses this challenge by introducing a maturity assessment approach. The approach applies the maturity model to review the past experiences and evaluate the current state of roadmapping practices to navigate toward effective organization-wide roadmapping implementation. The approach's practical relevance was demonstrated through an in-depth case study with a British material processing manufacturer. This article concludes that the approach provides organizations with a detailed understanding of their progress in developing implementation capabilities, offering valuable insights for future actions navigating toward organization-wide roadmapping.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":"54 2","pages":"184-203"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148518776","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}
Leon Özcan;Lisa Petzke;Roman Dumitrescu;Christian Koldewey
{"title":"Design Options to Shape Platform Success in B2B Markets Throughout the Platform Lifecycle","authors":"Leon Özcan;Lisa Petzke;Roman Dumitrescu;Christian Koldewey","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2025.3608788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2025.3608788","url":null,"abstract":"With advancing digitization, digital platforms are unleashing their full economic potential and have particularly disrupted business-to-consumer markets. As a result, managers across industries are trying to build platform ecosystems in business-to-business (B2B) markets to take advantage of the increasing platformization. However, building and operating a digital platform is fraught with challenges, and to date, only a few companies have successfully established digital platforms in B2B markets. One reason for this is the dynamic nature of the platform economy, with changing goals that need to be achieved. To ensure the long-term success of a digital platform, the strategic management of platform companies must successfully manage these multiple goals. A systematic literature review was conducted, and 82 design options along the platform lifecycle were identified. These design options represent different ways to address the dynamic target system. Each design option is supported by a concrete example that illustrates the implementation of the design option on real digital B2B platforms and underlines the practical relevance of the design options. These options help managers define the actions their digital B2B platform can take to achieve current and future strategic goals. Since each design option has been documented in the form of a pattern card, managers can use them in ideation workshops.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":"54 2","pages":"28-46"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11159526","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148518965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparing Technology Managers for the Postconsumer Reviews Era","authors":"Danuvasin Charoen;Guangrui Li;Warut Khern-am-nuai","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2025.3622421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2025.3622421","url":null,"abstract":"Online consumer reviews have long been instrumental in shaping user behavior and guiding product development. However, their credibility, and thus their utility, is in steep decline due to threats, such as malicious reviews, incentivized reviews, and AI-generated reviews. As synthetic content becomes indistinguishable from genuine feedback and bad actors exploit platforms to manipulate perceptions, the foundational trust in user-generated reviews is rapidly eroding. This article explores the critical challenges facing review ecosystems and argues that technology managers must prepare for a transition beyond traditional reviews. It examines how alternative mechanisms, such as question-and-answer systems, expert editorial content, and synthetically generated summaries from aggregated sources, can provide more trustworthy, actionable insights. These alternatives emphasize verified engagement, structured expertise, and scalable synthesis, offering resilient feedback models. This article calls for a rethinking of how platforms collect, interpret, and present user reviews, outlining practical steps for managers to sustain trust and transparency in digital marketplaces.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":"54 2","pages":"14-20"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148513714","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":"Nonconformance and Correction Costs in Construction: Insights From Actual Practice","authors":"Peter E. D. Love;Jane Matthews","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2025.3591478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2025.3591478","url":null,"abstract":"The corrective actions applied to nonconforming products—commonly termed <italic>rework</i>—can substantially erode a construction organization's performance, productivity, and profitability. Yet, empirical knowledge of the actual cost of rework in the field remains sparse. This study quantifies rework costs across 12 completed transport-infrastructure projects (with a total contract value of AU$2 billion) delivered via an alliance-based program. We find that 61% of all nonconformances (656 of 1064) required rework, with an average rework cost equal to 0.34 % of each project's contract value. Notably, a single project accounted for 57% of the total rework expenditure and 31% of the issued nonconformances. This article, thus, offers new, data-driven insights into the actual costs of rework on major infrastructure works and demonstrates that rework incidence and its financial impact vary widely across projects.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":"54 2","pages":"217-223"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148517903","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}
Alexandros G. Charalambides;Stavri Grigoriou;I. Kim Wang
{"title":"Unlocking Impact: Transforming Research Visibility With Dissemination Strategies","authors":"Alexandros G. Charalambides;Stavri Grigoriou;I. Kim Wang","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2025.3609548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2025.3609548","url":null,"abstract":"The European Union has funded €193.3 billion to support innovation research since 1984. Although funding programs are pivotal in maintaining European competitiveness in innovation, their achievements remain little known outside of academic circles. To address this, the European Commission mandates the inclusion of dissemination activities in its funded projects, which can account for 15% of the project's total budget. Still, our survey reveals low public awareness of these funding programs. This article addresses a longstanding challenge that vexes funding agencies, grant administrators, and innovation managers: how to effectively disseminate the achievements of publicly funded research to the public. We propose a model that addresses all audience types and also ensures broader public engagement. Empirical evidence suggests that effective dissemination for a wider public reach is best achieved through short, human-interest video content shared on public platforms and social media to boost visibility and engagement. Dissemination plans should be repeatable and executed more frequently as the audience size increases.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":"54 2","pages":"21-27"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148513717","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":"Some people were born to lead","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2026.3676390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2026.3676390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":"54 2","pages":"C2-C2"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11516088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148514639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health Technology Assessment Framework for Certification of mHealth Apps","authors":"Korina Katsaliaki;Sameer Kumar;Panagiota Galetsi","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2025.3622048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2025.3622048","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous mobile health (mHealth) apps offer novel approaches to diagnosis and treatment, but their reliability and usability require thorough assessment. The purpose of this study is to create a customized Health Technology Assessment (HTA) framework that is intended exclusively for mHealth apps’ certification. It also provides links to pertinent data sources. The proposed HTA framework was devised based on the EUnetHTA Core Model. The developed framework consists of nine domains, encapsulating 52 topics and more than 100 assessment related issues, which were appropriately adapted to mHealth apps evaluation. An indicative AI-skin diagnosis app is subjected to high-level evaluation of the proposed HTA framework to test case the framework. In addition, it is benchmarked against similar apps to illustrate app strengths, weaknesses, and market positioning, leading to a prescriptive approach for improvements. The proposed tailored framework establishes a holistic and rigorous evaluation process to ensure that mHealth apps are technologically robust, ethically sound, safe, effective, usable, and user friendly. It can also provide a general understanding of the app's standing in the market. This adapted framework leads to the creation of a comprehensive HTA report. The HTA report can aid app developers, technology, engineering, and product managers to meet the necessary HTA requirements for apps’ assessment. It can also be used by healthcare decision-makers, payers, and policymakers as a decision-support tool to inform decisions regarding the adoption, reimbursement, and utilization of mHealth apps.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":"54 2","pages":"125-144"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148518573","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":"Standards and Standardization: What Does It Take to Engage Effectively?","authors":"Paul M. Wiegmann","doi":"10.1109/EMR.2025.3607627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2025.3607627","url":null,"abstract":"Standards enable coordination and cooperation in business, society, and technology. They are developed through sometimes long-lasting processes in various institutions by a variety of actors. Engaging in standardization requires a good understanding of the principles that apply in these settings. This article reviews literature and offers recommendations on how actors in business can effectively engage in these settings.","PeriodicalId":35585,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Engineering Management Review","volume":"54 2","pages":"224-231"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148513400","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}