POTENTIALS OF TRACKING AND TRACING TECHNOLOGIES– THE PERSPECTIVE OF IT DECISION MAKERS IN GERMANY

RFID-technologies have been described as major enabling technologies for automated, contactlessdata collection. We conveyed a quantitative survey of 463 executives across various industries inGermany to investigate about the perceived strategic importance of RFID among IT decision makers,current RFID usage, companies' intentions to invest in RFID and visions of RFID application.[...]

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Authors:	Knebel, Uta ; Leimeister, Jan Marco ; Krcmar, Helmut
Institutions:	Institut für Informatik <München, Technische Universität> / Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Subject:	Strategie \| RFID \| Diffusion <Wirtschaft>

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1 RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION – TECHNOLOGY ANDPOTENTIALS
1.1 RFID Technology<br<1.2 Improve Efficiency, Enable New Products and Services and Gain CompetitiveAdvantage
2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
2.1 The Strategic Importance of RFID
2.2 Determinants on Perceived Strategic Importance
2.3 Willingness to Invest in RFID
2.4 RFID in Comparison to Other IT Topics
3 RESEARCH DESIGN & RESPONDENTS
4 EMPIRICAL FINDINGS
4.1 Status Quo: RFID is still in its infancy
4.2 Strategic importance of RFID: RFID is on the rise, but not yet a strategic issue
4.3 Willingness to invest: budgets are growing
4.4 Potentials: RFID for reducing errors
4.5 Obstacles: standards, technical deficiencies, cost and financial insecurity are majorsources of concern
4.6 RFID and top IT topics
4.7 Preparing for the future: RFID visions
5 CONCLUSION
5.1 Summary of results
5.2 Limitations of the study
6 RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ACTION
6.1 Recommendations for potential RFID users
6.2 Recommendations for RFID vendors
7 OUTLOOK
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