Markets are undergoing a fundamental shift towards the end of the second millenium: inmany business branches the traditional market forms are supplemented - and in some of thembeing replaced in the long run - by new information age forms of business. Firms wanting tomeet this challenge are...

Forced by market pressure financial services providers are searching forpromising concepts that can guide them towards success in the private customerssector. Individualization of financial solutions as well as of interaction seems to be areasonable possibility. Because of its tremendous growth...

Although, from a technical point of view, business frameworks appear to be apromising means to provide the industry with commercial, mission critical business managementsoftware in a cost effective manner and within a competitive time to market, up to now,only very few framework vendors like IBM...

The advent of the internet is revolutionizingthe financial services industry. In the future, electronicbanking (EB) will become a strategic factor, evolvingfrom mere transaction banking to the provision ofindividual, highly customized solutions. For this new wayof EB it is essential to have a...

Information technology (IT) is enabling large companies and particularly banking firms tocreate new forms of organizations. Both globalization of markets and stronger regulationthroughout the world puts pressure on banking firms to either spend more money coordinatingbusiness activities in the...

Globalization of financial markets resultingfrom both IT (particularly internet standards) andincreasing homogeneity of regulation has stronglyaffected the environment, financial services companiesare operating in. Given these changes on the market,innovation is not a choice, but a necessity to...

In this paper we report on the results of two projectsour research group is presently conducting. We start outwith sketching preliminary results of a long-term governmentproject geared to reveal efficiency conditions forsuccessful electronic commerce particularly in thefinancial services field....

Information technology (IT) is enabling financial services companies and particularly banking firmsto create new forms of organizations. Both globalization of markets and more rigorous regulationthroughout the European Union such as recently the implementation of the European CapitalAdequacy...

Kundenbetreuer im beratungsorientierten Banking können ihre Arbeitszeit in kurzfristigeVerkaufsaktivitäten oder in die langfristige Pflege von Kundenbeziehungeninvestieren. Indem jeder Kunde einem Betreuer zugeordnet und die Vergütung desBetreuers an alle (auch zukünftigen) Abschlüsse...

The interdependence of technical and financial considerations poses a majorproblem for the development of appropriate decision support systems in businesspractice. In this paper, an application - with strategic importance for outsourcingproviders in information technology - is described...