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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the proceedings papers of the 14th IFIP Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling, held in Riga, Latvia, during November 24-26, 2021. PoEM offers a forum for sharing experiences and knowledge between the academic community and practitioners from industry and the public sector. This year the theme of the conference is the use of enterprise modeling and enterprise architecture towards ensuring sustainability and resilience of enterprises and societies. The 14 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 47 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: enterprise modeling and enterprise architecture; enterprise modeling methods and method engineering; business process modeling and management; requirements engineering for privacy, security and governance; and case studies and experiences.Table of ContentsEnterprise Modeling and Enterprise Architecture.- Enterprise Coherence with GEA – a 15 Year Co-evolution of Practice and Theory.- Machine Learning-Based Enterprise Modeling Assistance: Approach and Potentials.- The Models for Knowledge Acquisition in PMI Specific Requirements Engineering.- Using Knowledge Graphs to Detect Enterprise Architecture Smells.- “Mind the Gap!”: Learning Missing Constraints from Annotated Conceptual Model Simulations.- Detecting value capture processes using FEM.- OLIVE, a Model-Aware Microservice Framework.- Enterprise Modeling Methods and Method Engineering.- An Experience Report on the Implementation of the KYKLOS Modeling Method.- Validation and Verification in Domain-Specific Modeling Method Engineering.- A Foundation for Design, Analysis, and Management of Digital Business Ecosystem through Situational Method Engineering.- Business Process Modeling and Management.- Design Guidelines to Derive ane3valueBusinessModel from a BPMN process model in the Financial Securities Sector.- Context-Aware Process Modelling for Medicinal Product Development.- Process Model Repair Meets Theory Revision - Initial Ideas.- Upper-bounded Model Checking for Declarative Process Models.- Requirements Engineering for Privacy, Security and Governance.- On the Philosophical Foundations of Privacy: Five Theses.- A Cyber Security Digital Twin for Critical Infrastructure Protection: the Intelligent Transport System Use Case.- Expanding Data Governance Across Company Boundaries – An Inter-Organizational Perspective of Roles and Responsibilities.- Case Studies and Experiences.- Can SysML Be Used for Enterprise Modelling?.- A Collaborative Model for Connecting Product Design and Assembly Line Design: an Aeronautical Case.- Assignment of Actors to Activities at Process-oriented Applications: A Research Agenda.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a framework for developing as well as a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art process querying methods. Process querying combines concepts from Big Data and Process Modeling and Analysis with Business Process Intelligence and Process Analytics to study techniques for retrieving and manipulating models of real-world and envisioned processes to organize and extract process-related information for subsequent systematic use. The book comprises sixteen contributed chapters distributed over four parts and two auxiliary chapters. The auxiliary chapters by the editor provide an introduction to the area of process querying and a summary of the presented methods, techniques, and applications for process querying. The introductory chapter also examines a process querying framework. The contributed chapters present various process querying methods, including discussions on how they instantiate the framework components, thus supporting the comparison of the methods. The four parts are due to the distinctive features of the methods they include. The first three are devoted to querying event logs generated by IT-systems that support business processes at organizations, querying process designs captured in process models, and methods that address querying both event logs and process models. The methods in these three parts usually define a language for specifying process queries. The fourth part discusses methods that operate over inputs other than event logs and process models, e.g., streams of process events, or do not develop dedicated languages for specifying queries, e.g., methods for assessing process model similarity. This book is mainly intended for researchers. All the chapters in this book are contributed by active researchers in the research disciplines of business process management, process mining, and process querying. They describe state-of-the-art methods for process querying, discuss use cases of process querying, and suggest directions for future work for advancing the field. Yet, also other groups like business or data scientists and other professionals, lecturers, graduate students, and tool vendors will find relevant information for their distinctive needs.Chapter "Celonis PQL: A Query Language for Process Mining" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Process Querying.- Part I: Event Log Querying.- BP-SPARQL: A Query Language for Summarizing and Analyzing Big Process Data.- Data-Aware Process Oriented Query Language.- Process Instance Query Language and the Process Querying Framework.- Part II: Process Model Querying.- The Diagramed Model Query Language 2.0: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation.- VM*: A Family of Visual Model Manipulation Languages.- The BPMN Visual Query Language and Process Querying Framework.- Retrieving, Abstracting, and Changing Business Process Models with PQL.- QuBPAL: Querying Business Process Knowledge.- CRL and the Design-Time Compliance Management Framework.- Process Query Language.- Part III: Event Log and Process Model Querying.- Business Process Query Language.- Celonis PQL: A Query Language for Process Mining.- Part IV: Other Process Querying Methods.- Process Querying Using Process Model Similarity.- Logic-Based Approaches for Process Querying.- Process Model Similarity Techniques for Process Querying.- Complex Event Processing Methods for Process Querying.- Process Querying: Methods, Techniques, and Applications.

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Book SynopsisThis book explains the functional scope, the data model, the solution architecture, the underlying engineering concepts, and the programming model of SAP S/4HANA as the most well-known enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The approach is to start with general concepts and then to proceed step-by-step to concrete implementations in SAP S/4HANA. In the first part the reader learns about the market view of ERP solutions and vendors. The second part deals with the business processes for sales, marketing, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, services, procurement, and human resources which are covered with SAP S/4HANA. In the third part the underlying concepts of SAP S/4HANA are described, for example in-memory storage, analytics and search, artificial intelligence, process and data integration, security and compliance, lifecycle management, performance and scalability, configuration and implementation. The book is concluded with a final chapter explaining how to deploy an appliance to explore SAP S/4HANA. The target audience for the book are managers and business analysts who want to understand the market situation and future ERP trends, end users and process experts who need to comprehend the business processes and the according solution capabilities provided with SAP S/4HANA, architects and developers who have to learn the technical concepts and frameworks for enhancing SAP S/4HANA functionality, and consultants and partners who require to adopt and configure SAP S/4HANA.Table of ContentsPart 1: Market View.- 1. Challenges and Characteristics of ERP Systems.- 2. ERP Market Analysis.- 3. ERP Future Trends.- Part 2: Functional View.- 4. Functional Departments and Enterprise Domains.- 5. Master Data of Business Partner.- 6. Master Data of Product.- 7. Master Data of Bill of Material.- 8. Process of Idea to Market.- 9. Process of Source to Pay.- 10. Process of Plan to Fulfill.- 11. Process of Lead to Cash.- 12. Process of Recruit to Retire.- 13. Process of Acquire to Decommission.- 14. Process of Governance.- 15. Process of Finance.- 16. Industry Solutions.- Part 3: Conceptual View.- 17. ERP Product Qualities: Customer View.- 18. ERP Product Qualities: Provider View.- 19. In-Memory Persistency.- 20. Virtual Data Model.- 21. Transactional Programming Model.- 22. Analytics.- 23. Search.- 24. Artificial Intelligence.- 25. Internet of Things.- 26. Process Integration.- 27. Data Integration.- 28. In-App Extensibility.- 29. Side-by-Side Extensibility.- 30. User Experience.- 31. Identity and Access Management.- 32. Data Protection and Privacy.- 33. Secure Development and Operations.- 34. Globalization and Localization.- 35. Scalability and Performance.- 36. Lifecycle Management.- 37. Configuration.- 38. Implementation.- Appendix.- 39. Explore SAP S/4HANA System.

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Book SynopsisA new wave of digital technologies has impacted the business world like a tsunami. But after a first phase characterized by hype and unrealistic expectations, there is now a shared need for a better understanding of how to create real and sustainable value by adopting these technologies. This book suggests a pragmatic approach to value creation by embracing the post-digital mindset: a more mature attitude toward digital innovation focused on putting these technologies at work rather than marveling at them. After the illustration of a post-digital manifesto, the book explores all the key topics and tools that are relevant for the decision makers in this context. Table of Contents1. Companies and Digital Transformations.- 2. Disruptive as Usual: A Manifesto for the Digital Age.- 3. Redescovering the Fundamentals of Value Creation.- 4. Competences and Capabilities for Digital Value Creation.- 5. Enterprise Renewal and Change Management.- 6. A Tool for the Boardroom: The Devo Lab Hit Radar.- The Hit Radar in Action.- 8. The Legal Side of Digital Technologies: Challenges and New Paradigms.- 9. Enabling the Post-Digital Enterprise.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a comprehensive, holistic, scientifically precise, and practically relevant description of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM). Based on state-of-the-art concepts, it also addresses current trends like disruptive digitization or agile methods. The book is structured in five chapters. The first chapter offers a comprehensive overview of EAM. It addresses questions like: what does EAM mean, what is the history of EAM, why do enterprises need EAM, what are its goals, and how is it related to digitalization? It also includes a short overview of essential EAM standards and literature. The second chapter provides an overview of Enterprise Architecture (EA). It starts with clarifying basic terminology and the difference between EA and EAM. It also gives a short summary of existing EA frameworks and methods for structuring the digital ecosystem into layers and views. The third chapter addresses the strategic and tactical context of the EAM capability in an enterprise. It defines essential terms and parameters in the context of enterprise strategy and tactics as well as the operative, organizational context of EAM. The fourth chapter specifies the detailed goals, processes, functions, artifacts, roles and tools of EAM, building the basis for an EAM process framework that provides a comprehensive overview of EAM processes and functions. Closing the circle, the last chapter describes how to evaluate EAM in an enterprise. It starts by laying out core terminology, like “metric” and “strategic performance measurement system” and ends with a framework that integrates the various measuring areas in the context of EA and EAM. This textbook focuses on two groups: First, EAM scholars, ie bachelor or master students of Business Information Systems, Business Administration or Computer Science. And second, EAM practitioners working in the field of IT strategy or EA who need a reliable, scientifically solid, and practically proven state-of-the-art description of essential EAM methods.Table of Contents1. EAM in a Nutshell.- 2. Enterprise Architecture in a Nutshell.- 3. Strategic and Tactical Context of EAM.- 4. EAM Implementation.- 5. EAM Evaluation.

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Book SynopsisTechnology is pervasive in today’s globalized world. Moreover, technology and globalization drive competitiveness and strategy, and must be managed well. This textbook uses technology management as the central theme to cover multiple business and social facets, including digital transformation, cybersecurity, international operations, marketing, finance, culture, human capital, and the political economy. The book is divided into four sections. Part 1 examines the confluence of globalization and technology from the first Industrial Revolution to the current Fourth Industrial Revolution. Part 2 introduces strategic and analytical metrics and models that are crucial to managerial decision-making. Part 3 discusses the basics of cybersecurity and combating cyber-threats to protect organization and its stakeholders. Part 4 focuses on sustainable operations, global projects, and digital transformation in a technology-centric, globalized world. The book will help students learn how to navigate business aspects of globalization and technology in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). For instructors, the learning objectives and discussion questions help guide students in grasping the material.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Section I. Understanding the Emerging 4IR World .- Chapter 1. The Road to 4IR (4th Industrial Revolution).- Chapter 2. Managing in the 4IR world.- Chapter 3: Business Concepts in Globalization.- Section II: 4IR Strategy and Analytics.- Chapter 4. Strategizing using Technology.- Chapter 5: How 4IR Innovations are Reshaping the World.- Chapter 6: Strategic Analytics for Decision-Making.- Chapter 7: Tying Strategic Analytics to Data Analytics.- Chapter 8: Data Analytics and Data Mining.- Section III: Cybersecurity in a Global Context .- Chapter 9: Introduction to Cybersecurity.- Chapter 10: Cybersecurity Threats: Malware in the Code.- Chapter 11: Cybersecurity Protection Framework.- Section IV: Managing 4IR Operations: Global Projects, Sustainability, & Digital Transformation.- Chapter 12: 4IR Operations, Technology, and Sustainability.- Chapter 13: Managing Offshore Projects and Operations.- Chapter 14: Digital Transformation in a Globalized World.

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Book SynopsisThis book is intended to guide researchers interested in the world of innovation in real estate finance linked to technology and provide new evidence on classifying and evaluating the performance of PropTech companies. Chapters will deal with the evolution of PropTech, possible business models, negotiation and property management tools, new property financing tools (p2p lending and crowdfunding), the market and the balance sheet analysis of PropTech companies in Europe.A valuable resource for researchers studying the real estate industry, this book is also relevant to those studying FinTech and the impact of technology on industry more broadly. It can also be of use to professionals in the real estate industry, looking for a cutting edge research-based study on PropTech.Table of ContentsIntroduction 2. PropTech: history and development2.1 Introduction2.2 Proptech 1.0 (1982-2000)2.3 Proptech 2.0 (2001-2016)2.3.1 Sector classification2.3.2 Business model2.4 Proptech 3.0 (2017-Today)2.4.1 Blockchain technology2.4.2 Blockchain and real estate2.5 European real estate market2.6 ConclusionInnovation in negotiating real estate assets3.1 Introduction3.2 Negotiation process3.3 Managing real estate transactions3.3.1 Valuation3.3.2 Counterparty screening3.3.3 Due diligence and contract registration3.4 ConclusionManaging real estate assets and portfolios with IT tools4.1 Introduction4.2 Real estate risk4.2.1 Greenfield and Brownfield projects4.2.2 Income-producing real estate 4.3 Risk management tools4.3.1 Transaction-Intensive Processing4.3.2 Judgement-Intensive Processes4.3.3 Design and Strategy Support Processes4.4 ConclusionFinancing Instruments in the proptech industry5.1 Introduction5.2 The framework of P2P lending in Crowdfunding5.2.1 Object and operation of P2P lending5.2.2 The opportunities offered by P2P lending5.2.3 Risks and disadvantages of P2P lending5.2.4 Business models 5.3 The leading international player in P2P lending5.4 Debt-crowdfunding5.4.1 Characteristics5.4.2 The risks5.5 Equity crowdfunding investment 5.5.1 Characteristics5.4.2 The risksConclusionAn analysis of the performance of the protech companies6.1 Introduction6.2 Business model classification6.3 Empirical analysis6.3.1 Sample6.3.2 Methodology6.3.3 Results6.4 ConclusionConclusion

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Book SynopsisEditorial: Industry 5.0 Towards Human Value and Value for Human.- The Dilemma Between Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0: A Technological Evolution of Digital Transformation or a Humanitarian Revolution of Well-Being?.- Transitioning from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0: An Overview of Co-Evolution.- Industry 5.0: Quo Vadis? Challenges and Concerns for Future Development.- From Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0: challenges and opportunities of evolutionary transition in Russia.- Theoretical Research on Sustainable Business Model Innovation Driven by Digital Technology.- Economic Passionarity: Formation Peculiarities in The Digital Age.- Value-Based vs Pragmatic Approach to the Sustainable Development of Energy Sector Companies in the Context of Industry 5.0.- Institutional Environment of The Information Economy: A Method for Assessing the Contribution to The Socio-Economic Development.- Agile Methodology Catalyzing Digital Transformation: Implementation Objectives and Evaluation Criteria in Organizational Settings.- New Forms of Capital in the Context of Digitalization of the Industrial Sector.- Developing an Agent-Based Model for Intelligence Transformation of a Regional Industrial Complex.- The New Industry 5.0 Paradigm: An Investigation in the Italian Automotive Sector.- Operational Management of Production for Car Maintenance and Repair Using Digital Twin Technology.- Industrial Digitalization as a Driver of City Reindustrialization: Evidence from Detroit.- Strategic Interventions: Navigating Industry Development Trends through Digitalization for Enhanced Competitiveness of Italian Wood-Furniture Companies.- Robotic Technological Processes Optimization in the Context of Digital Transformation of Industry.- Driving Sustainable Growth: Leveraging Digital Transformation in Photovoltaic Manufacturing.- Digital Twin Prototype Structure of Value, Demand and Supply Chain Management.- Green Warehouse 5.0.- Digitalization of Manufacturing Enterprises: The perspective of employees and employers.- Congruence of Skills and Technologies in the Conditions of Digitalization of Industry.- The Role of Demographic Processes in the Digital Transformation of Industrial Regions.- Problem-Based Modular Learning in Instrument Engineering Within Education 5.0.- Big and Small Data in Corporate Human Resource Management.- Strategic Integration of Industry 5.0 Assistive Technologies for Cognition in Business for Human Capital Development.- The Impact of the Digital Economy on the Development of Human Capital in the Oil and Gas Industry.- Digitizing Human Capital Management at Industrial Enterprises: A Case of Business Process Modeling in the Fuel and Energy Sector.- The Impact of Industry 5.0 Human Capital on Production System Performance: Evidence from Russian Metallurgy.- The Impact of Digital Transformation on Labor Productivity of Chinese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs).- Defining Performance Indicators for a Multi-Stakeholder Manufacturing Digital Platform: An ECOGRAI Adaptation.- Method of Minimax Terminal Program Control of Enterprise Product Output for Digitalization of Decision-Making Processes.- Risk Evaluation in the Strategic Planning of Industrial Regions' Development within Industry 5.0.- Implementation of the Windows of Opportunity in the Investment Sector of Industry of Russian Regions in the Context of Digitalization.- Integration of the Sustainability Aspects into the Evaluation of the Export Potential of High-Tech Companies.- Impact of Digitalisation on the Technological Development of Industry: Russian Experience.

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Book Synopsis1. Generative AI Review Summaries and their Impact on Ambivalence and User Behavior: An Eye-Tracking Study.- 2. Offloading to Digital Minds: How Generative AI Can Help to Craft Jobs.- 3. Deciphering User Gaze Dynamics: Interacting an AI-Driven Platform with an Chatbot for Problem Solving.- Pictures or it didn't happen! How the Use of the Generative AI Images Impacts the Perceived Believability of News Headlines.- 5. Trust and Compliance in Financial Services: A Comparative Study of Human-led vs AI-led Teams Using Behavioral and Neuroscientific Measures.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Navigating Digital Transformation: Organizational Change, Digital Work, and Individual Behaviors.- Chapter 2. Disruptive Technology's Transfer Between Organizational Units: The Role of Corporate Headquarters.- Chapter 3. Change Management in the Italian Judicial System: the Case of Ufficio per il Processo".- Chapter 4. Lessons Learned From a Case Study: A Diamond Model for Implementing and Scaling Process Mining.- Chapter 5. Information Security: Still Not My Job!.- Chapter 6. User Acceptance of Business Information Systems and Their Influence on Organizational Performance: an Agent-based Model.- Chapter 7. The Pivotal Role of Workarounds for Navigating Challenges in Digital Work.- Chapter 8. Opportunities and Constraints in Designing Well-being Programs Supported by Wearable Technologies in Organizations.- Chapter 9. Effective Strategies for Managing and Maintaining Organisational Culture in Virtual and Hybrid Teams: Insights for Organisational Leaders.- Chapter 10. Linking People Analytics, HRM Practices and Sustainable Development Goals Reporting: an Interpretative Framework.- Chapter 11. Robots in Personnel Selection: the Role of Interviewer's Competence Ratings and Interviewee's Fairness Perception.- Chapter 12. Organisational Culture and Hybrid Work in the Italian Public Sector. The Case of a Small University.- Chapter 13. Promoting the Adoption of AI-based Recommendations Through Organizational Practices.- Chapter 14. Business Intelligence for Continuous Auditing.- Chapter 15. Conceptualizing Responsible Adoption of Artificial Agents in the Workplace: A Systems Thinking Perspective.- Chapter 16. AI and Decision-making Process: A Meta-synthesis of the Literature.- Chapter 17. Beyond the Technical Use of Management Control Systems: Valuing Public Employees' Experience of Interactional Fairness.- Chapter 18. Organizational Change and Leadership: A Bibliometric Analysis.- Chapter 19. Women's Resilience in the Time of Covid-19.

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Book Synopsis.- AI, ML & Agents..- AI Explainability Methods in Digital Twins: A Model and a Use Case..- Enterprise Design, Operations and Computing with AI Agents: Accountability using DSL..- BPM and WFM..- A Tree-Based Definition of Business Process Conformance..- Control-flow Reconstruction Attacks on Business Process Models..- Business Models, Platforms & Strategic Management..- Value assessment of consumer electronics with Digital Product Passport: A case study of lifetime extension assessment of disposed washing machines..- Enterprise and IT Architecture..- How to Measure the Speed of Enterprise IT? An Enterprise Architecture - based Case Study in a Very Large Enterprise..- Towards Role Mappings in Hybrid Cloud Environments: A Systematic Literature Review..- A Longitudinal View on the Perceived Contribution of Enterprise Architecture in the Netherlands..- IT & Software Architecture..- MVVM Revisited: Exploring Design Variants of the Model-View ViewModel Pattern..- Domain-Driven Design Representation of Monolith Candidate Decompositions..- Implications of Trust in Cyber-Physical Systems Design: the ASSA Case Study..- Drivers and Metrics for Quantifying IT Landscape Complexity.- Modeling Methods, Data & Component..- GNN-based Conceptual Model Modularization: Approach and GA-based Comparison..- Automatic Extraction and Formalization of Temporal Requirements from Text: A Survey..- Process Mining & Monitoring..- Recognizing Relationships: Detecting the 4C Spectrum in O(P 2 + T 2 ) for Acyclic Sound Process Models..- Process Tree Alignments..- DigiEMine: Towards Leveraging Decision Mining and Context Data for Quality Control..- Sustainability & Resilience..- Unlocking Sustainability Compliance: Characterizing the EU Taxonomy for Business Process Management.

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Book Synopsis8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Business Process Management (AI4BPM 2024).- The Role of Trust in AI-Augmented Business Process Management Systems.- Knowledge Graphs: A Key Technology for Explainable Knowledge-Aware Process Automation.- Graph Neural Networks for PPM: Review and Benchmark for Next Activity Predictions.- Bridging Domain Knowledge and Process Discovery Using Large Language Models.- 3rd International Workshop on Data-Driven Business Process Optimization (BPO 2024).- The Business Process Optimization Competition.- Ad-hoc subprocesses The missing link between scheduling and business process modelling.-Applying Process Mining on Scientific Workflows: a Case Study on High Performance Computing Data.- 8th International Workshop on Business Processes Meet Internet-of-Things (BP-Meet-IoT 2024).- Check my Flow: Distributed Conformance Checking at the Source.- From IoT Event Logs to Human Routines via Community Detection Algorithms.- Machinery activity recognition in the industry based on heterogeneous data.- LLM-based event abstraction and integration for IoT-sourced logs.- 17th International Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2 2024).- Non-visual process models: How do blind and low-vision users model business processes.- Diversity and Inclusion in HR processes in financial sector.- Mining for Well-Being: The Potential of Process Mining for Evaluating Employee Well-Being.- 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Business Process Management (NLP4BPM 2024).- Straight outta Logs: Can LLMs overcome preprocessing in Next Event Prediction.- Enhancement of Low-Level Event Abstraction with Large Language Models (LLMs).- Analysis, and Optimization of Business Processes.- Towards a Benchmark for Causal Business Process Reasoning with LLMs 220.- Using Large Language Models to Generate Process Knowledge from Enterprise Content.- Efficient LLM-Based Conversational Process Modeling.- Leveraging Generative Vision Models for Extracting Process Models from Documents.- International Workshop on Object-centric Processes from A to Z (OBJECTS 2024).- Coordination Process Verification for object-centric Business Processes.- Transforming Object-Centric Event Logs to Temporal Event Knowledge Graphs.- 2nd International Workshop on Change, Drift, and Dynamics of Organizational Processes (ProDy 2024).- SWORD Framework for Workaround Detection.- First Insights into the Impact of Concept Drift on Process Complexity.- Visualizing Routine Dynamics in Outpatient Medical Clinics with Topological Data Analysis.- 1st International Workshop on Managing Process Innovation and Value Creation in the Era of Digital Transformation (Innov8BPM 2024).- Process Mining Pipelines with Controlled Sharing of Data and Algorithms.- How Can We Develop Inclusive Business Process Management.- Business Value of Process Mining: A Contingency Perspective.- Towards a Unified Approach: Developing a Reference Model for Digital Twins and Business Process Management in Clinical Trials.- Business in the Age of Platform Economics: Managing Decentralised Business Processes Beyond Blockchain.

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Book SynopsisA Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Exploring Bias in Inclusive Chatbot Design.- Ensuring Energy Affordability through Digital Technology: A Research Model and Intervention Design.- The Motivation of Companies to Implement Corporate Digital Responsibility Activities Voluntarily: An Empirical Assessment.- Human perceptions of fairness: a survey experiment.- Unraveling Information-Limiting Environments: An Empirical Review of Individual, Social, and Technological Filters in Social Media.

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Book SynopsisRequirements for a Federated Learning System to strengthen IT Security in Human Resource Management.- Implementing Smart Contracts: The case of NFT-rental with pay-per-like.- Revealing Hidden Self-financed Wash Trading in Non-Fungible-Token Markets.- DataOps as a Prerequisite for the Next Level of Self-Service Analytics Balancing User Agency and Central Control.

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Book SynopsisAntecedents of Non-Ownership Business Model Offerings in the Mechanical Engineering Industry A Set Theoretic Approach.- Conflicting Identities during Digital Transformation Efforts of an Incumbent Automotive Firm.- Understanding Business Process Evolution in Digital Ventures.- Exploring Central Platform Types and Related Concepts in Service Research A Systematic Literature Review.

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Book SynopsisPart I: Introduction.- 1. Introduction to Enterprise Engineering.- 2. Introduction to Enterprise Architecture.- 3. Introduction to Enterprise Design.- Part II: Theories.- 4. The Enterprise Engineering theories.- 5. The EE function-construction theory.- 6. The EE organisational operation theory.- 7. The EE organisational construction theory.- 8. The EE organisational essence theory.- 9. The EE organisational design theory.- 10. The EE organisational implementation theory.- Part III: Applications.- 11. The DEMO methodology.- 12. Exercise: Pizzeria.- 13. Exercise: Library.- 14. Exercise: Redesigning a National Police Force.- 15. Real-life cases.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Scaling Product Acceptance Analysis Using Annotation Systems Based on Large Language Models.- Chapter 2. Strategies for Effective Remote Retrospectives: Exploring Retrospective Games, Anonymity, and Continuous Reflection.- Chapter 3. Self-Sovereign Identities: Brief History and Survey of the Field.- Chapter 4. A Framework for Rigorous Execution and Presentation of Expert Interviews in IS and Digital Transformation Research.- Chapter 5. Growing Pains of Digital Transformation: Navigating the Challenges in Non-Profits.- Chapter 6. Digital Innovation, Strategic and Lean Management as Success Factors in IT.- Chapter 7. A Solution for Developing Corpora for Polish Speech Enhancement in Complex Acoustic Environments.- Chapter 8. Data-Driven Assessment of Practical Skills in Cybersecurity Challenges.- Chapter 9. A Circular Digital Twin for Climate-Smart Soils through Community Composting.- Chapter 10. Design Principles for Food Heritage Digital Twins.- Chapter 11. Beyond Agile Methodologies: Exploring the Business Analyst’s Role in Agile Software Development.- Chapter 12. Assessing Operational Business-IT Alignment for Architecture Improvement.- Chapter 13. An EBNF-Based Grammar for Use Case Specification.- Chapter 14. Changes in Node.js Server-Side Application Performance Characteristics Over Time Under Load.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 2. IS Strategy and Governance.- Chapter 3. Enterprise Architecture and IT Infrastructure.- Chapter 4. Data, Information, and Content Management.- Chapter 5. Systems Development and Systems Deployment.-  Chapter 6. Enterprise Systems.- Chapter 7. Project Management.- Chapter 8. Process Management.- Chapter 9. Business Continuity and Information Assurance.- Chapter 10. Ethics, Impacts, and Sustainability.- Chapter 11. Digital Transformation.

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Book SynopsisThe Genesis and Evolution of AI Agents.- AI Agent Tools and Frameworks.- AI Agent Ecosystem - Multi-Agent Coordination.- AI Agent Economics.- AI Agents and Business Workflow.- AI Agents in Offensive Security.- AI Agents in Cyber Defense.- AI Agents in Banking.- AI Agents in Insurance.- AI Agents in Healthcare Practices.- AI Agents in Robotics.- AI Agent Safety and Security Considerations.

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Book SynopsisPart I: General.- Chapter 1: Why AI and Security?.- Chapter 2: Understanding AI and ML.- Part II: AI in Security.- Chapter 3: AI in Security.- Chapter 4: AI for Network Security.- Chapter 5: AI for Software Security.- Chapter 6: AI for Cloud Security.- Chapter 7: AI for IoT and OT Security.- Part III: Secure AI.- Chapter 8: AI Security and Privacy.- Chapter 9: Defense Methods for Adversarial Attacks and Privacy Issues in Secure AI.- Chapter 10: General Framework for AI Security and Privacy.- Chapter 11: AI Safety and Fairness.- Chapter 12: AI Security Challenges, Opportunities and Future Work.- Chapter 13: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisChapter1: Motivation and Chapter Overview.- Chapter2: Cloud product strategy, vision, market positioning, and pricing.- Chapter3:Understanding Product Strategy and Roadmaps.- Chapter4: The Challenges of User Research in Product Management.- Chapter5: Integrating the Voice of the Customer in Cloud Product Management The Role and Application of Market Research Techniques.- Chapter6: Managing Generative Products Different Rules for Software Innovation.- Chapter7: Machine Learning Get ready to measure the value for Supply Chain Management Understanding the value of Machine Learning in the context of Business Processes.- Chapter8: Systematic Quality Assurance for Blockchain based Services.- Chapter9: Make product and service requirements shippable from the cloud service vision to a continuous value stream which satisfies current and future user needs.- Chapter10: Engineering of Sustainability with Existing Levers in Cloud Services.

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Book Synopsis.- Discussion of Current Issues in Cost Estimation Decisions for Aircraft Manufacturing..- A Computer Vision Approach to Build Manufacturing Simulation Models in the Digital Twin Context..- Anomaly Detection in Supply Chain Business Processes: A Deep Learning Approach..- Digital Engineering Ecosystem for the Enhancement of Traceability: Industrial Study..- A survey investigating skills, job profiles, and education in Circular Economy: a practice perspective..- Development of an Augmented Reality Book to Promote the Local Wisdom of Tai Lue Foods in Gastronomy Tourism..- Rail Infrastructure Management Optimization through Digital Twins: Focus on Data Reliability and Quality..- Survey on Knowledge-Based Engineering Approaches for Complex Product Design: A Focus on Crowd Intelligence..- Advancing Industrial Digital Twins: Towards An Open Platform Aligned with Standards..- Overview of Digital Thread from a Traceability perspective: From Engineering, Manufacturing to Operations..- Potential of the Industrial Metaverse – A Taxonomic Approach..- On the Integration of the SAPPhIRE Model in the Digital Twin Development Process: a Train Braking System Use Case..- Models for Manufacturing (MfM) Methodology Applied to the Automated Characterization of Aerospace Sheet Metal Parts Manufacturing Process..- The implementation of a PDM/PLM system: Case Study in an Industrial Process Cooling Company..- Wasp Detection System Using AI Technology to Support Honey Bee Farming..- Comparing different ChatGPT4.0 generated oriented word suggestions as design fixation interferences for the ideation phase in Design Thinking..- Lifecycle Approaches based BIM: Challenges and Opportunities..- Effect of internal & external financing on labor productivity – (2009-2014) panel data study of Ecuadorian companies..- Digital Transformation for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control in Thailand by Using a Mixed Methods Approach..- From Strategy to Action: A Methodological Framework for Digital Transformation in Manufacturing SMEs..- PLM Traceability Approaches along the V-model – A Systematic Literature Review..- Data-Driven Digital Twin Model Construction and Stress State Monitoring of Grasping Robot..- MESLedger: Investigating Manufacturing Execution Improvements through the Integration of AI and Blockchain Technologies..- Navigating the Future: Integrating Safety Passports for Enhanced Product Implementation on Machinery - conceptualization and use case..- Towards a multi-criteria decision-making approach for R&D project prioritisation driven by innovation incentives and enterprise strategies..- Personalized Exercise Plans for the Elderly Using KNN based on FITT Principle..- Developing a Mixed Reality (MR) Technology System for Training Intelligent Logistics Personnel, a Learning Course on Vehicle Condition Inspection..- Designing of beef cattle recognition and detection sys-tem to improve Walk-over-Weighing system (WoW) for beef cattle in the Lancang-Mekong Region.

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Book Synopsis1 Introduction.- 1.1 Process Mining.- 1.2 Mining Organizational Models from Event Logs.- 1.3 Outlook.- 2 Framework for Organizational Model Mining.- 2.1 Preliminaries.- 2.2 Execution Context.- 2.3 Organizational Model.- 2.4 Discovering Organizational Models.- 2.5 Evaluating Organizational Models.- 2.5.1 Fitness.- 2.5.2 Precision.- 2.6 Analyzing Organizational Models.- 2.7 Discussion.- 3 Learning Execution Contexts.- 3.1 Preliminaries.- 3.2 Problem Modeling.- 3.2.1 Categorization Rules.- 3.2.2 Quality Measures for Execution Contexts.- 3.2.3 Problem Statement.- 3.3 Problem Solution.- 3.3.1 Deriving Attribute Specification.- 3.3.2 Inducing Rules via Simulated Annealing.- 3.4 Evaluation.- 3.4.1 Event Log Datasets.- 3.4.2 Experiment Setup.- 3.4.3 Evaluation against the Baselines.- 3.4.4 Evaluation between tree-based and SA-based.- 3.4.5 Summary.- 3.5 Discussion.- 4 Discovering Organizational Models.- 4.1 A Three-Phased Discovery Approach.- 4.1.1 Determining Execution Contexts.- 4.1.2 Discovering Resource Grouping.- 4.1.3 Profiling Resource Groups.- 4.2 Implementation.- 4.3 Evaluation.- 4.3.1 Experiment Setup.- 4.3.2 Model Evaluation and Comparison.- 4.3.3 Model Diagnosis.- 4.3.4 Summary.- 4.4 Discussion.- 5 Applying Organizational Models to Workforce Analytics.- 5.1 Preliminaries.- 5.2 Resource Group Work Profiles.- 5.2.1 Work Profile Indicators.- 5.2.2 Extracting and Analyzing Work Profiles.- 5.3 Case Study: One Process, Five Municipalities.- 5.3.1 Group-level Analysis.- 5.3.2 Within-Group Analysis.- 5.3.3 Summary.- 5.4 Discussion.- 6 Epilogue.- 6.1 Conclusions.- 6.2 Future Work.- References.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introducing Enterprise Governance of IT, Alignment and Value.- Chapter 2. Enterprise Governance of IT.- Chapter 3. Business/IT Alignment.- Chapter 4. IT Business Value.- Chapter 5. Standards and Frameworks for Enterprise Governance of IT.- Chapter 6. EGIT Case Study Insights.

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Book SynopsisTypology of IS Artefacts - Providing an Organizing Foundation for Design Science Research Outcomes.- The Architecture of Project Design Knowledge in Design Science Research.- Abstraction and Abstraction Levels in Design Science Research.- Collaborative Evolution of the IS Artefact - Negotiating Research/Practice Tensions.- Function-Construction Patterns for Designing IS Artefacts.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Digital Business to Autonomic Business.- Part I: Understanding the Autonomic Business.- Chapter 2: Maturity Levels and Evolution Path.- Chapter 3: Technology Foundations of Autonomic Business.- Chapter 4: Developing Multi Agent Systems for Autonomic Business.- Chapter 5: Autonomic Business in the Real World.- Part II:  Autonomic Business Transformation.- Chapter 6: Evolving the Team.- Chapter 7: New Capabilities and Challenges.- Chapter 8: Developing an Autonomic Strategy and Business Architecture.- Chapter 9: Instituting Control and Oversight.- Part III: The Future of Autonomic Business.- Chapter 10: Agentic Ecosystems.- Chapter 11: Robotics Revolution.- Chapter 12: Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisAre you attracted by the promises of agile methods but put off by the fanaticism of many agile texts? Would you like to know which agile techniques work, which ones do not matter much, and which ones will harm your projects? Then you need Agile!: the first exhaustive, objective review of agile principles, techniques and tools.Agile methods are one of the most important developments in software over the past decades, but also a surprising mix of the best and the worst. Until now every project and developer had to sort out the good ideas from the bad by themselves. This book spares you the pain. It offers both a thorough descriptive presentation of agile techniques and a perceptive analysis of their benefits and limitations.Agile! serves first as a primer on agile development: one chapter each introduces agile principles, roles, managerial practices, technical practices and artifacts. A separate chapter analyzes the four major agile methods: Extreme Programming, Lean Software, Scrum and Crystal.The accompanying critical analysis explains what you should retain and discard from agile ideas. It is based on Meyer’s thorough understanding of software engineering, and his extensive personal experience of programming and project management. He highlights the limitations of agile methods as well as their truly brilliant contributions — even those to which their own authors do not do full justice.Three important chapters precede the core discussion of agile ideas: an overview, serving as a concentrate of the entire book; a dissection of the intellectual devices used by agile authors; and a review of classical software engineering techniques, such as requirements analysis and lifecycle models, which agile methods criticize.The final chapters describe the precautions that a company should take during a transition to agile development and present an overall assessment of agile ideas.This is the first book to discuss agile methods, beyond the brouhaha, in the general context of modern software engineering. It is a key resource for projects that want to combine the best of established results and agile innovations. Trade Review“This is probably the first serious book ever written about Agile … . Bertrand Meyer is not a signatory of the Agile Manifesto, resulting in a book free of hype or marketing propaganda. … It consists of a short … enumeration of ‘pros and cons’ of various methodologies, with discussions about their applicability and suitability for certain projects.” (Adrian Kosmaczewski, De Programmatica Ipsum, deprogrammaticaipsum.com, January 6, 2021)“This book was written to be an independent, impartial and objective study of the various agile methods (scrum, xp, lean, crystal) viewed against the knowledge-base of software engineering methods and principles. … This book, in my view, should be essential reading for any software manager, looking to understand agile methods before diving head-first into a vanilla, textbook-implementations.” (Outlet!, khanmjk-outlet.blogspot.de, November, 2015)“The purpose of this excellent book is to ‘enable readers to benefit from the good ideas in agile methods and stay away from the bad ones.’ … The overall presentation is elegant, clear, and understandable … . It can be used both by novices and by experts … .” (H. I. Kilov, Computing Reviews, September, 2014) Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisWettbewerbsvorteile werden in Zukunft nur noch die Unternehmen erlangen, denen es gelingt, Informationen in Wissen zu verwandeln. Die zwei Welten Business Intelligence und Knowledge Management wachsen vor diesem Hintergrund zusammen. Der Herausgeber, Leiter des Instituts für Managementinformationssysteme und des Instituts für Knowledge Management, zeigt in diesem Buch die zunehmende Integration der beiden Bereiche. Das Buch bringt damit Transparenz in einen der größten IT-Wachstumsmärkte. Mehrere Studien, etwa des Fraunhofer Instituts, beleuchten den relevanten Markt und geben wichtige Orientierungshilfen. Anhand einer Vielzahl von Beispielen wird gezeigt, welchen Nutzen der Einsatz hochentwickelter Analysewerkzeuge und die Entwicklung von Lösungen für das Wissensmanagement heute bereits erbringen. Ebenfalls sehr hilfreich für Praktiker ist die umfangreiche Anbieterliste. Einen raschen Überblick über die wichtigsten KM- und BI-Begriffe bietet ferner das integrierte Glossar.Table of ContentsKM und BI - Zwei Welten wachsen zusammen.- Knowledge Management: Status Quo im Knowledge Management; Wissensgewinnung; Wissensspeicherung; Wissensnutzung.- Business Intelligence: Status Quo im Business Intelligence; Einsatz von BI zur Unternehmenssteuerung; Einsatz von BI im Marketing.- Literatuvrverzeichnis.- Index.- Glossar.- Anbieterverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisIn dem Band werden 50 Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (EAF) ausführlich behandelt und 45 weitere hinsichtlich ihrer Intention kurz und prägnant dargestellt. Die detaillierten Beschreibungen erlauben durch ein einheitliches Raster den Vergleich unterschiedlicher EAF. Sie enthalten Informationen zum Entwickler, zu Versionen, zur Marktrelevanz, zu Abhängigkeiten, Verfügbarkeit, unterstützenden Tools sowie Anschaffungskosten. Die Unterstützungsvielfalt, die Frameworks bieten, demonstriert der Autor anhand eines Anwendungsszenarios.Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: “... Das Buch empfiehlt sich allen Verantwortlichen, welche vor der architekturgeleiteten Umsetzung eines IT-Projekts stehen oder eine aktuelle IT-Strategie zu entwickeln haben, da es die Entscheidungsfindung dank seiner strukturierten Herangehensweise effektiv unterstutzt. ... Da dieses Buch von einer aktuellen Website begleitet wird, sind nicht nur weiterführende Informationen, sondern auch ein interaktives Navigationssystem nach der Registrierung einfach zuganglich. Lehrende finden dort detaillierte Framework-Beschreibungen, Übungs- und Vortragsmaterialien sowie eine Orientierungshilfe als Druckvorlage ...“ (WI Wirtschaftsinformatik www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de, June/2012)Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Einführung eines grundlegenden Begriffsverständnisses.- Recherche und Ordnung der Enterprise Architecture Frameworks.- Grundlagen für die Beschreibung ausgewählter Rahmenwerke im Interesse des Informationsmanagers.- Detaillierte Beschreibung ausgewählter Rahmenwerke.- Exemplarische Umsetzung einzelner Rahmenwerke innerhalb eines fiktiven Anwendungsszenarios.- Anhang A: Konspekt zum Grundlagenkapital Rahmenwerke.- Anhang B: Framework Selection Guide.- Literaturverzeichnis.- Index.

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Book Synopsis“Everybody loves an innovation, an idea that sells.“ But how do we arrive at such ideas that sell? And is it possible to learn how to become an innovator? Over the years Design Thinking – a program originally developed in the engineering department of Stanford University and offered by the two D-schools at the Hasso Plattner Institutes in Stanford and in Potsdam – has proved to be really successful in educating innovators. It blends an end-user focus with multidisciplinary collaboration and iterative improvement to produce innovative products, systems, and services. Design Thinking creates a vibrant interactive environment that promotes learning through rapid conceptual prototyping. In 2008, the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program was initiated, a venture that encourages multidisciplinary teams to investigate various phenomena of innovation in its technical, business, and human aspects. The researchers are guided by two general questions: 1. What are people really thinking and doing when they are engaged in creative design innovation? How can new frameworks, tools, systems, and methods augment, capture, and reuse successful practices? 2. What is the impact on technology, business, and human performance when design thinking is practiced? How do the tools, systems, and methods really work to get the innovation you want when you want it? How do they fail? In this book, the researchers take a system’s view that begins with a demand for deep, evidence-based understanding of design thinking phenomena. They continue with an exploration of tools which can help improve the adaptive expertise needed for design thinking. The final part of the book concerns design thinking in information technology and its relevance for business process modeling and agile software development, i.e. real world creation and deployment of products, services, and enterprise systems.Table of ContentsIntroductory Chapter: Thinking Research. - Part 1: Design Thinking in Various Contexts. - Design Thinking – A Fruitful Concept for IT Development?. - A Unified Innovation Process Model for Engineering Designers and Managers. - Product Differentiation by Aesthetic and Creative Design - A Psychological and Neural Framework of Design Thinking . - Part 2: Understanding Design Thinking. - Re-Representation: Affordances of Shared Models in Team-Based Design. - The Co-evolution of Theory and Practice in Design Thinking – or: “Mind the oddness trap!” . - Innovation and Culture: Exploring the Work of Designers across the Globe. - The Efficacy of Prototyping Under Time Constraints . - Part 3: Tools for Design Thinking. - An Instrument for Real-Time Design Interaction Capture and Analysis. - Tele-Board: Enabling Efficient Collaboration In Digital Design Spaces across Time and Distance . - Physicality in Distributed Design Collaboration . - Part 4: Design Thinking in Information Technology. - Bringing Design Thinking to Business Process Modeling. - Agile Software Development in Virtual Collaboration Environments. - Towards Next Generation Design Thinking: Scenario-Based Prototyping for Designing Complex Software Systems with Multiple Users . - List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn dem Lehrbuch zur makroökonomischen Theorie werden die Einkommens-, Zins- und Beschäftigungstheorie, die Analyse von Inflation und Unterbeschäftigung sowie die Wachstumstheorie durchgängig aus keynesianscher Sicht betrachtet. Diese Ergebnisse stellen die Autoren insbesondere den Resultaten des Monetarismus sowie der Neo- und Neuklassik und dem derzeit dominanten Ansatz der New-Keynesians gegenüber. Damit bietet der Band eine wichtige Ergänzung zu den Lehrbüchern, die Inflations- und Wachstumsprozesse primär aus neoklassischer Sicht analysieren.Trade Review"Wer auf dem volkswirtschaftlichen Grundlagenwissen der ersten Semester aufbauen will, ist mit diesem Lehrbuch bestens beraten." STUDIUM - Buchmagazin für Studierende, 90-2012Table of ContentsEinleitendes.- Grundlagen der Makroökonomik: Präkeynesianische Makroökonomik. Darstellung und Kritik.- Keynesianische Beschäftigungstheorie: Die kurze Sicht.- Konventionelle Analysen von Inflation und Wachstumsprozessen.- Makroökonomik für Fortgeschrittene: Keynesianische Inflationstheorie: Die mittlere Sicht.- Keynesianische Wachstumstheorie: Die lange Sicht.- Ausblick: Gereifter Keynesianismus.- Übungsmaterialien: Übungsaufgaben.- Multiple-Choice Klausuraufgaben.

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Book SynopsisThis book is designed to introduce doctoral and other higher-degree research students to the process of scientific research in the fields of Information Systems as well as fields of Information Technology, Business Process Management and other related disciplines within the social sciences. It guides research students in their process of learning the life of a researcher. In doing so, it provides an understanding of the essential elements, concepts and challenges of the journey into research studies. It also provides a gateway for the student to inquire deeper about each element covered​. Comprehensive and broad but also succinct and compact, the book is focusing on the key principles and challenges for a novice doctoral student.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“It focuses on the entire research process from start to finish and provides a guide not only for the methods, but for the ‘process of learning the life of a researcher.’ This well-written and easy-to-read book consists of eight chapters, divided into three parts. Each chapter ends with a list of references for further reading on each subject, totaling 200 in all. … The book is intended primarily for doctoral students and young scholars in the field of information systems.” (Alexei Botchkarev, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2012)Aus den Rezensionen: “…Gerade junge Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden werden sehr von diesem Buch profitieren ... allen Doktoranden in der Wirtschaftsinformatik, besonders am Anfang ihres wissenschaftlichen Projektes, sowie ihren Betreuern zur Verwendung in Kursen des Doktorandenstudiums. ” (in: Business & Information Systems Engineering, 16/March/2013)Table of Contents​​Part I: Basic Principles of Research.- Part II: Conducting Research.- Part III: Publishing Research.

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Book SynopsisIn this book the author aims to describe the path from Information Technology to Information Management and Information Governance. This path allows organizations to identify IT Business Value and take advantage of it. The book synthesizes the main approaches that have emerged in recent years, compares these approaches along multiple variables, and finally proposes an advanced and new approach to Information Governance, based on the concept of Organizational Absorptive Capacity. Furthermore, the book presents a new approach to Information Management: the SIGMA (Strategic Information Governance Modelling and Assessment) approach. The new approach is centered on information as a key factor allowing integration between IT applications, organizational capabilities and business strategy. In particular, the Absorptive Capacity concept is presented and discussed: this concept represents the ability of an organization to maintain and absorb the potential of information and IT investments. After having presented and discussed the model, we also provide the reader with a brief presentation of how the SIGMA approach should be applied in companies. The book adopts a scientific approach to ensure methodological rigour; however, it is also concrete and describes problems from the viewpoints of managers, adopting a clear and easy-to-understand language in order to capture the interest of top managers and graduate students.Table of ContentsThe IT Business Value.- An Information Management Approach Emphasizing on the ‘I’ in IT.- The Information Operation Approach.- The Information Orientation Approach.- The Information Evolution Approach.- The Foundation for an Information Approach.- A Comparison of the Four Approaches.- Organizational Absorptive Capacity and the Use of Information.- Strategic Information Governance Modeling and Assessment.- The Sigma Model.

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Book SynopsisWhile previously available methodologies for software – like those published in the early days of object technology – claimed to be appropriate for every conceivable project, situational method engineering (SME) acknowledges that most projects typically have individual characteristics and situations. Thus, finding the most effective methodology for a particular project needs specific tailoring to that situation. Such a tailored software development methodology needs to take into account all the bits and pieces needed for an organization to develop software, including the software process, the input and output work products, the people involved, the languages used to describe requirements, design, code, and eventually also measures of success or failure.The authors have structured the book into three parts. Part I deals with all the basic concepts, terminology and overall ideas underpinning situational method engineering. As a summary of this part, they present a formal meta-model that enables readers to create their own quality methods and supporting tools. In Part II, they explain how to implement SME in practice, i.e., how to find method components and put them together and how to evaluate the resulting method. For illustration, they also include several industry case studies of customized or constructed processes, highlighting the impact that high-quality engineered methods can have on the success of an industrial software development. Finally, Part III summarizes some of the more recent and forward-looking ideas.This book presents the first summary of the state of the art for SME. For academics, it provides a comprehensive conceptual framework and discusses new research areas. For lecturers, thanks to its step-by-step explanations from basics to the customization and quality assessment of constructed methods, it serves as a solid basis for comprehensive courses on the topic. For industry methodologists, it offers a reference guide on features and technologies to consider when developing in-house software development methods or customising and adopting off-the-shelf ones.Trade Review"This book offers a comprehensive body of knowledge related to the Method Engineering discipline. It provides a summary and synthesis of all past efforts in this domain and clarifies the domain terminology. I suggest it to every researcher interested in the art of method design, not only in software engineering but also in other fields." Marko Bajec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia"I am confident this text will prove an invaluable resource for those interested in improving the standard of software development and the resulting software applications." from the foreword by Mary O'Kane, NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer, Sydney, Australia"This book deftly balances the advantages of situational method engineering in terms of its practical application, underpinned by the solid theory from worldwide research. I heartily recommend it for both researchers and practitioners." from the foreword by Julian Edwards, Chief Operating Officer, Object Consulting, Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsPart I SME Basics.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Method chunks, method fragments and method components.- Chapter 3 Method Engineering as a Social Practice.- Chapter 4 Formal descriptions.- Part II Applying SME in Practice.- Chapter 5 Identification and construction of individual method chunks/fragments.- Chapter 6 Processes for creating a methodology from method parts.- Chapter 7 Tailoring a constructed method.- Chapter 8 Assessing quality.- Chapter 9 Examples of constructed processes.- Part III The Future of SME.- Chapter 10 Recent advances in SME.- Chapter 11 Final summary and future work.

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Book SynopsisIf you have tried to implement Agile in your organization, you have probably learned a lot about development practices, teamwork, processes and tools, but too little about how to manage such an organization. Yet managerial support is often the biggest impediment to successfully adopting Agile, and limiting your Agile efforts to those of the development teams while doing the same old-style management will dramatically limit the ability of your organization to reach the next Agile level.Ángel Medinilla will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of what Agile means to an organization and the manager’s role in such an environment, i.e., how to manage, lead and motivate self-organizing teams and how to create an Agile corporate culture. Based on his background as a “veteran” Agile consultant for companies of all sizes, he delivers insights and experiences, points out possible pitfalls, presents practical approaches and possible scenarios, also including detailed suggestions for further reading.If you are a manager, team leader, evangelist, change agent (or whatever nice title) and if you want to push Agile further in your organization, then this is your book. You will read how to change the paradigm of what management is about: it is not about arbitrary decisions, constant supervision and progress control, and the negotiation of changing requirements. It is about motivation, self-organization, responsibility, and the exploitation of all project stakeholders’ knowledge. We live in a different world than the one that most management experts of the 20th century describe, and companies that strive for success and excellence will need a new kind of manager – Agile managers.Trade Review"Get this book if you need an introduction to agile development." M. M. Tanik, ACM Computing Reviews, January 2013Table of ContentsA Brief History of Management.- Lean and Agile in a Nutshell.- The Agile Manager’s Role.- Motivating the Agile Workforce.- Self Organization.- Agile Structures: Scaling Agility.- Managing Capacity and Workload.- Agile Culture and Driving Change.- Final Thoughts.

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