Industry 4.0 is an issue that has already reached most companies, although its implementation still varies significantly. This variance is mostly due to the fact that planning and implementing networked technologies in companies requires new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration. The approach developed in this paper provides guidance to manufacturing companies to identify and exploit digitally […]
The purpose of this paper is to show how knowledge intensive information technology (IT) applications within an organisation can be identified and analysed to achieve two corporate goals: First, an optimisation of the corporate IT landscape that avoids inefficiencies or redundancies. Second the implementation of a knowledge management (KM) system that is aligned with the […]
Purpose of this paper is to show the work in progress of the author’s Ph.D. which is about the development of a method to support the communication between SME and their respective bank regarding intellectual capital (IC) within the lending process. Based on a theoretical and practical requirement analysis selected methods on intellectual capital reporting […]
Customers and their requirements are increasingly influencing product development and production processes and at the same time products are becoming more and more individualized. Thus, individualization is no longer restricted to the final products; it increasingly influences all process of companies. New strategies and methods for an effective and flexible management of the production system […]
Purpose: Purpose of this paper is, to show the experiences from the German and European pilot projects where the developments in Germany let into a national Intellectual Capital (IC) System with different stakeholder groups. The paper shows how the German IC Center has been built up and how the different stakeholder groups spread the idea […]
Purpose – Knowledge and innovation have always played a crucial role in economic and social development (Kefala, 2010). As enterprises are facing constantly transforming framework conditions knowledge and innovation continue to gain importance in research and practice as means to realise sound economic, social and ecologic development. As mere product or incremental process innovations are […]
Purpose – Enterprises are facing transforming framework conditions that are manifesting on several levels. Increased competition from emerging markets, limited availability of resources as well as political and societal requirements with regard to the sustainability of enterprises` operations are only an extract of changing factors of influence. The capability to innovate has proven to be […]