Enterprise 2.0 (and Social Business respectively) is still in its enfants. Nevertheless, enterprises of all sizes are facing the challenge to adapt and evaluate Social Business Software (SBS) and platforms.
In this post, I point to “aperto”, a framework of the “Forschungsgruppe Kooperationssysteme” of the “Universität der Bundeswehr München”, which might help companies of any [...]
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More than 10 years ago, when I was at CeBIT in Hanover, we had this great idea of “Mobile Payment”. The case: Pay via your mobile carrier’s bill. The problem: The carriers wanted to earn their fortune with mobile transactions. The consequence: “Mobile Payment” was too expensive and – in addition: Carriers wanted to limit [...]
Financial Services and Banking respectively are affected by two major trends. Causes for these trends are internal and external influences: External influences are for example new technological developments and Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 while internal influences are such as cost pressure on Information Technology departments and organizational restructuring.
Trend 1 – Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) [...]
Below are some words concerning the agile management in the “sweet spot” between chaos and order (see [Domb11]) to gain the maximal flexibility coupled to sufficient stability.
A few days ago I stumbled upon an ARIS Expert Paper of IDS Scheer (now Software AG) written by Scheer, with the title “Jazz-Improvisation und Management” (see [Sche07]), [...]
Recently, I have observed that new Enterprise 2.0-terms that contain the word “social” are created almost monthly (see e.g. “Social Business” by IBM, [Kulz11]). Therefore, I have decided to publish my first thoughts on the use of such “social terms” in business environments. Speaking as an experienced consultant, the term “social” is generally associated with more [...]
As my new book will be available in every good bookstores at the end of this week (available via LOGOS now), some notes. You can have a look at it and order it now via LOGOS VERLAG, Link: http://logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/engbuchmid?isbn=2802&lng=deu&id= – “Potenziale und Herausforderungen des Geschäftsprozessmanagements im Enterprise 2.0 unter Berücksichtigung der Dynamik unternehmerischer Systeme” [...]
As I am about to finish my book, I would like to point out a specific aspect of it, „The Strength of Weak Ties“ from Granovetter…
On the basis of a non-representative social networks-study (N=296) of Milgram in 1967 (“The small world problem”, see [Milg67, pp. 61 et seq.]), Milgram and Travers claimed that any [...]
“Of the next billion people who come online, the vast majority of them are going to do so for the first time through a mobile device.” – Jimmy Wales in SAP Spectrum, [Manr10, p. 17]
Where does this road lead?
“If you had asked most bankers five years ago when they thought that mobile banking [...]
“The key is applying technology more precisely”, says Tom Davenport in the new McKinsey Quarterly (see [Dave11]). In his new article, the author explains the different requirements to support less and more knowledge intensive processes in companies. For this purpose he used the classification which he has already presented in 2005 in “Thinking for a [...]
Dynamic, unstructured processes vs adaptive, ad hoc workflows
The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) defined a workflow as follows:
„The automation of a business process, in whole or part, during which documents, information or tasks are passed from one participant to another for action, according to a set of procedural rules.“ (see [Alle00, p. 15]).
Automation [...]
At this website, reviews of my publications as well as additional information regarding science and practice of Business Informatics and Information Systems will be available soon. In particular, the following topics will be discussed: Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM), Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise 2.0 (E2.0), E-Finance, E-Business, Consulting and Project Management. My publications are to [...]
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