Introduction -- Product Architecture and IT strategy -- Global Business Model Building based on the Three Core Competences and Business architecture -- Architecture Analysis for Sustainable Innovations -- Architecture analysis and core competence strategy for Emerging Markets -- Integration of...

Modular upgradability has been suggested as a strategy for improving environmental performance: As technology improves, it allows for independent replacement of improving subsystems, instead of replacing the entire product. This may extend the useful life of the stable subsystems, reducing...

While the mainstream literature on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) has long emphasized their customized nature and their role in exploring new knowledge to satisfy each client's needs, recent research has argued that competition is inducing KIBS firms to standardize their offer. In...

The advent of a credit risk market has profoundly altered the role of banking firms into one of asset originator and asset distributor rather than the asset holder. Banks have traditionally originated and held credit risk. It emphasis the different role of financial institutions from holders of...

Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect intellectual property (IP). We investigate the impact of...

Methoden des Variantenmanagement eignen sich, um dem Zielkonflikt zwischen Effizienz und Kundenindividualität zu begegnen. Die IT-Dienstleistungsindustrie sieht sich aktuell den gleichen Herausforderungen gegenüber. Daher liegt es nahe, die Konzepte und Methoden des Variantenmanagements in die...