Growing expenses for health care services in hospitals stress the potential of a well applied IT governance for cost reduction, productivity gains and a possible source for competitive advantages. The underlying explorative study analyzes the current status of IT governance through a survey...

In recent years, manufacturing companies and service providers have moved towards offering customer-specific problem solutions. These integrated bundles usually consist of hardware, software, and service components and are called product service systems (PSS) or hybrid products. Since the...

Dieses Buch zum Projekt Next Generation Certification (NGCert) betrachtet die Grundlagen vertrauenswürdiger Cloud-Services. Es wird ein Konzept für eine dynamische Zertifizierung zur Förderung von Vertrauen, Rechtsverträglichkeit, Qualität und Nutzen von Cloud-Services am deutschen Markt...

Dieses Buch zum Projekt Value4Cloud betrachtet das Cloud-Computing aus der Perspektive von Unternehmen. Die Autoren entwickeln Bausteine zur Förderung von Vertrauen, Rechtsverträglichkeit, Qualität und Nutzung von Cloud-Services im deutschen Mittelstand. Fallstudien zeigen den exemplarischen...

Legal compatibility as a characteristic of sociotechnical systems aims at the greatest possible compliance with higher-order legal goals for minimizing social risks of technical systems and extends legality, which refers to the prevention of lawlessness. The paper analyzes the criteria for legal...

The business model concept, although a relatively new topic for research, has garnered growing attention over the past decade. Whilst it has been robustly defined, the concept has so far attracted very little substantive research. In the context of the wide-spread digitization of businesses and...

Service systems engineering (SSE) focuses on the systematic design and development of service systems. Guided by a value proposition, service systems enable value co-creation through a configuration of actors and resources (often including a service architecture, technology, information, and...