{"title":"A new model for technology foresight: Foresight periscope model (FPM)","authors":"N. Yuksel, Hasan Cifci","doi":"10.1109/ICE.2017.8279967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8279967","url":null,"abstract":"This paper suggests new technology foresight approach named Foresight Periscope Model (FPM). The article starts with various definitions of technology foresight from the literature and new definition is given by the authors. Elements of widely accepted foresight definitions are analyzed and depicted on a table according to the number of references in the definitions. Based on the literature analysis, foresight generations are grouped into four main categories. Foresight frameworks are analyzed and a generic foresight functional model with nine consecutive phases named ‘FORESIGHT’ is suggested. Functions in the FORESIGHT model are matched with the phases of prominent foresight frameworks in the literature based on their actions and artifacts within specific phases. FPM is a new technology foresight approach which has three interdependent modules; Resources, Methodology and Futures Strategies. Model makes use of periscope resemblance, that is, resources and methodology are underlying parts that enable an organization to see alternative futures and provide futures strategies to follow in order to survive and compete in the environment. Resources that can be used in a foresight exercise are explained. Foresight methods in the literature are grouped according to various criteria and the approach to choose the right methods to create proper methodology is stated. The model concludes with futures strategies which put foresight process into action by taking advantage of underlying resources and methodology. FPM does not impose a specific methods or process to attain the desired future. It provides a framework for practitioners to start with and to complete a foresight exercise by using optimum resources and proper methodology.","PeriodicalId":421648,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129827669","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}
Christoph J. Selig, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guido H. Baltes
{"title":"Clarifying the roles in corporate entrepreneurship","authors":"Christoph J. Selig, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guido H. Baltes","doi":"10.1109/ICE.2017.8279976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8279976","url":null,"abstract":"Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) supports the strategic renewal of established companies. Corporate venturing represents one key concept of CE that supports companies to strengthen their innovation capabilities. For the successful implementation of corporate ventures dual structures are recommended. The question, how the interface should be designed, plays a crucial role. Although it seems to be an important factor, this aspect requires further attention. One relevant element of the interface design are the different roles of the individuals that are interacting within the interface. This study is based on nine interviews that are representing six internal corporate ventures within one large German corporate from the ICT sector. The results that were mirrored with short case studies of 25 additional companies of the data sample, contribute to a better understanding of the interface design by adding insights about roles in corporate entrepreneurship. This deeper understanding about roles allows to draw conclusions on the interface design from a structural point of view.","PeriodicalId":421648,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116466782","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}
K. Hribernik, Marco Franke, P. Klein, K. Thoben, E. Coscia
{"title":"Towards a platform for integrating product usage information into innovative product-service design","authors":"K. Hribernik, Marco Franke, P. Klein, K. Thoben, E. Coscia","doi":"10.1109/ICE.2017.8280047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8280047","url":null,"abstract":"A product's value is increasingly determined by the services supporting it. Complex Product-Service Systems (PSS) – combinations of services and products – are in demand. Product usage information (PUI), that is, information about how an individual product is used, is rapidly becoming a valuable asset to industry to help inform service offers throughout the product lifecycle. Conventionally, information about how a product is used is gathered in customer relations and MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) processes via channels such as repair logs, call centers or helpdesks. Today, new channels of PUI are emerging from the digitalization of products, the Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet sources and social media. To benefit from the user experience and knowledge about product-service usage contained in PUI, current product and service development systems (e.g. PDM/PLM, CAx and simulation tools) and the related processes and methodologies need to be extended to incorporate PUI feedback and feedforward loops. This means a suitable IT infrastructure is required to efficiently and seamlessly integrate and apply PUI to PSS (re-)design processes. This paper proposes such an IT infrastructure in the form of an architecture for a Virtual Open Platform for incorporating feedback loops into PSS (re-)design processes and the corresponding IT systems.","PeriodicalId":421648,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122001028","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}
Thomas Kyanko, Thomas R. Devine, R. Reddy, S. Reddy
{"title":"A personal knowledge advantage machine for knowledge workers in data-intensive domains","authors":"Thomas Kyanko, Thomas R. Devine, R. Reddy, S. Reddy","doi":"10.1109/ICE.2017.8279870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8279870","url":null,"abstract":"With the ever-increasing amount of data and associated knowledge required to perform many modern-day tasks, quickly finding context-sensitive information can contribute to significant gains in knowledge worker productivity. Here, we describe the design and construction of a system, called a Personal Knowledge Advantage Machine (pKaM), to assist users while they perform knowledge based tasks. In this paper, we illustrate this idea by using the computer programming domain, which undoubtedly is a knowledge-intensive task, as an example. We first describe the architecture of a pKaM followed by a description of how it may be used by a programmer new to the Python language. The pKaM system may be viewed as a collection of agents that discover, mark-up, organize, display and present contextually relevant pieces of knowledge to the worker during the entire life-cycle of the task. The design of pKaM emphasizes the use of the plug-and-play approach so that it can be adapted to any domain by merely plugging-in a new domain knowledge base. As this idea gains currency, it is our hope that open-source knowledge bases organized along the lines described here will become available for many domains.","PeriodicalId":421648,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)","volume":"91 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127873077","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}
Yngve Dahle, M. Steinert, Anh Nguyen-Duc, P. Abrahamsson
{"title":"Building an entrepreneurship data warehouse","authors":"Yngve Dahle, M. Steinert, Anh Nguyen-Duc, P. Abrahamsson","doi":"10.1109/ICE.2017.8279876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8279876","url":null,"abstract":"The main principle of the Lean Startup movement is that static business planning should be replaced by a dynamic development, where products, services, business model elements, business objectives and activities are frequently changed based on constant customer feedback. Our ambition is to empirically measure if such changes of the business idea, the business model elements, the project management and close interaction with customers really increases the success rate of entrepreneurs, and in what way. Our first paper; “Does Lean Startup really work? Foundation for an empirical study” presented the first attempt to model the relations we want to measure. This paper will focus on how to build and set up a test harness (from now on called the Entrepreneurship Platform or EP) to gather empirical data from Companies and how to store these data together with demographical and financial data from the PROFF-portal in the Entrepreneurial Data Warehouse (from now called the EDW). We will end the paper by discussing the potential methodological problems with our method, before we document a test run of our set-up to verify that we are actually able to populate the Data Warehouse with time series data.","PeriodicalId":421648,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)","volume":"385 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121244520","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":"Business capabilities: A systematic literature review and a research agenda","authors":"T. Offerman, C. J. Stettina, A. Plaat","doi":"10.1109/ICE.2017.8279911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8279911","url":null,"abstract":"The omnipresent need for business transformations, be it digital, agile, or lean, forces organizations to make good choices regarding their optimal business capabilities. Business capabilities provide a link between strategy (the ‘why’) and implementation (the ‘how’). Currently, a comprehensive view on business capabilities is missing. We conducted a systematic literature review on business capabilities. We identified 720 scientific studies, of which 20 were analyzed in-depth. In this review, we investigate how business capabilities are defined, what business capability frameworks are available, and what future research has been suggested for business capability research. From this literature review emerges an extensive analysis on the state of art in business capability research, a new definition for business capabilities, and a potential research agenda for future research.","PeriodicalId":421648,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130932762","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":"Real-time scheduling with MLFQ-RT multilevel feedback queue with starvation mitigation","authors":"K. Hoganson, Joseph Brown","doi":"10.1109/ICE.2017.8279883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8279883","url":null,"abstract":"Process scheduling for real-time processes is a critical function of real-time operating systems, which are required to guarantee soft and hard deadlines for completing real-time processes. The behavior of Multi-Level Feedback Queue (MLFQ) scheduling mechanisms intrinsically support a scheduling that favors short CPU bursts to the complete exclusion of all other processes in the ready queues. This MLFQ feature can be extended to support meeting both hard and soft real-time process deadlines. This research proposes a new derivative of MLFQ for real-time scheduling call MLFQ-Real-Time (MLFQ-RT) investigated through simulation. The MLFQ-RT real-time extension builds upon research solving a known weakness of MLFQ scheduling: a vulnerability to starvation of processes in the lowest priority queue, so that the operating system is unable to guarantee that all processes will make progress. Simulation research demonstrates that MLFQ-RT can support hard and soft real-time process scheduling while simultaneously mitigating starvation in low priority queues.","PeriodicalId":421648,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123096458","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":"Integration of project management with NPD process a metalworking company case study","authors":"I. Costa, G. Fernandes, Anabela Tereso","doi":"10.1109/ICE.2017.8280016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8280016","url":null,"abstract":"While the literature provides some reflection on the relation between Project Management and New Product Development (NPD), there are still doubts on how these practices can be integrated. This study made a contribution on how a metalworking company should integrate Project Management with their established NPD process. Additionally, a proposal about how the company should integrate the Subproject with the Global Project is made. Two main concerns guided the development of this work: the integrated project management process should be useful and easy to use. Therefore, only six main project management practices are proposed: project charter, initial project plan, progress reports, updated plan, open point list and lessons learned.","PeriodicalId":421648,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)","volume":"452 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122602121","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":"Pereira diamond: Projects' economic and social impacts","authors":"L. Pereira, Claudia Teixeira, A. Salgado","doi":"10.1109/ICE.2017.8279862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8279862","url":null,"abstract":"This research paper presents a model to assist business managers and decision-makers to make better decision of investment projects. This model provides a methodology and principles to assist organizations estimating and evaluating their projects benefits to apply in a Business Case, namely for projects with economic and social impacts. This model may be applied by any organizations (private sector, public sector or NGO) which may aim to leverage business value or generate more social value.","PeriodicalId":421648,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121037713","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":"Benchmarking of software production costs: Results & recommendations","authors":"L. Pereira, Claudia Teixeira","doi":"10.1109/ICE.2017.8279863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE.2017.8279863","url":null,"abstract":"This paper intends to provide a deeper understanding about the software production cost in the banking sector through a benchmarking analysis. Furthermore, the paper provides a set of recommendations to assist organizations become more efficient, productive and more competitive. This analysis was performed based on a representative sample in the Portuguese market based on a sample of 21 projects. These projects represent a total of 37.800 hours and a 2.984.000 budget. The data collection was completed during 2 months, January and February in 2016 through different business research methods namely 15 Interviews to project managers regarding 21 projects and historical data collection. The sample went through a segmentation in two groups due to the dispersion verified among the results between some banks. These two segments were classified as “Classic Retail” — national banks of high dimension, with market recognition and influential in the Portuguese economy — and “Niche Banks”-smaller banks. Briefly, in terms of rates and considering the “Classic Retail” segment, the discrepancy of rates between the two niches is visible, the average rate of Classic Retail is 64.7% above the Niche Banks segment. In regards to productivity, The Classic Retail's average is about 11h per unit of software produced while for the Niche segment it is about 2.6h.","PeriodicalId":421648,"journal":{"name":"2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121052474","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}