Bücher der Reihe Progress in IS

This book discusses the opportunities and conditions that digital technology provides to extend, innovate and differentiate the services offered by consulting companies.

This book highlights research that contributes to a better understanding of emerging challenges in information systems (IS) outsourcing. and how to cope with the increasing demands of internationalization and new sourcing models, such as crowdsourcing, cloud sourcing and robotic process automation.

This book features the latest research in the area of immersive technologies, presented at the 5th International Augmented and Virtual Reality Conference, held in Munich, Germany in 2019.

This research handbook provides a comprehensive, integrative, and authoritative resource on the main strategic management issues for companies within the e-business context.

This book features both cutting-edge contributions on managing knowledge in transformational contexts and a selection of real-world case studies.

The book describes how these reference solutions can be used in a practical context: it presents the latest insights into their development, highlights lessons learned from numerous international projects and combines them with well-founded research results in enterprise architecture management and reference modeling.

This book presents and analyzes the concept of online brand communities, an emerging and exciting topic in marketing and eCommerce. On this basis, the book then presents a detailed analysis of online brand communities, examining the concept of virtual community with a specific focus on virtual brand communities.

The introduction of Enterprise Identity Management Systems (EIdMS) in organizations even beyond the purely technological level is a costly and challenging endeavor. To this regard, the focus is put on the general nature of EIdMS projects and the constructs being relevant for analyzing such projects in the decision support phase.

This book examines how and why collaborative quality assurance techniques, particularly pair programming and peer code review, affect group cognition and software quality in agile software development teams.

This book provides an integrated overview of key trends in digital transformation, taking into consideration five interrelated dimensions: strategy and business models, society, organization, technology and regulation.

This book examines the principles of and advances in personalized task recommendation in crowdsourcing systems, with the aim of improving their overall efficiency.

This book presents the latest research on the software crowdsourcing approach to develop large and complex software in a cloud-based platform. The book examines a variety of issues in software crowdsourcing processes, including software quality, costs, diversity of solutions, and the competitive nature of crowdsourcing processes.

It studies not only the spatial differences in technology usage worldwide, but also examines digital differences in the major world nations of China, India, the United States and Japan at the state and provincial levels.

This book takes an in-depth look at consumer behavior in the context of multichannel commerce and explores how the convergence of physical and electronic channels influences consumer decision-making in a multichannel environment.

This book describes how manufacturing enterprises, by reinforcing their existing monitoring and control of manufacturing processes, can successfully face the ever-increasing pressure from internal and external environments to maintain their competitive advantage.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective. It compares European best practices and analyzes how smart projects and programs in cities could help to improve the quality of life in the urban space and to promote cultural and economic development.

This book develops, evaluates and refines a cloud service relationship theory that explains how cloud users' uncertainties arise in these relationships and how they can be mitigated.

¿What will business software look like in the future? And how will it be developed?This book covers the proceedings of the first international conference on Future Business Software ¿ a new think tank discussing the trends in enterprise software with speakers from Europe¿s most successful software companies and the leading research institutions. The articles focus on two of the most prominent trends in the field: emergent software and agile development processes.¿Emergent Software¿ is a new paradigm of software development that addresses the highly complex requirements of tomorrow¿s business software and aims at dynamically and flexibly combining a business software solution¿s different components in order to fulfill customers¿ needs with a minimum of effort. Agile development processes are the response of software technology to the implementation of diverse and rapidly changing software requirements. A major focus is on the minimization of project risks, e.g. through short, iterative development cycles, test-driven development and an intensive culture of communication.

This research handbook provides a comprehensive, integrative, and authoritative resource on the main strategic management issues for companies within the e-business context.

In an important antecedent to the spread of more efficient household energy management technology, this book is one of the first to empirically study the acceptance of smart meter technology (SMT) amongst potential customers and a group of SMT users.

This book covers the multi-disciplinary nature of process management. It develops a methodology that supports the work of a process management team and provides a tutorial to implement the use of the methodology in healthcare and business case studies.

Here is an introduction to the process of scientific research in the fields of Information Systems as well as the related fields of Information Technology, Business Process Management and other related disciplines within the social sciences.

This book explores models and concepts of trust in a digitized world. Focusing on an investigation of how the Internet is changing the relationship between trust and communication, and the impact this change has on trust research, this volume facilitates a greater understanding of these topics, thus enabling their employment in social relations.

It presents the latest research on intelligent information systems, computational intelligence methods in Information Systems and new trends in Business Process Management, making it a valuable resource for both researchers and practitioners looking to expand their information systems expertise.

This book presents the latest research on the software crowdsourcing approach to develop large and complex software in a cloud-based platform. The book examines a variety of issues in software crowdsourcing processes, including software quality, costs, diversity of solutions, and the competitive nature of crowdsourcing processes.

It presents the latest empirical research findings in that area of IS research and explores new technologies and practices. The book is written for researchers and professionals working in the field of IS research or the research of SMEs.

This book collects ECM research from the academic discipline of Information Systems and related fields to support academics and practitioners who are interested in understanding the design, use and impact of ECM systems.

It presents the latest research on intelligent information systems, computational intelligence methods in Information Systems and new trends in Business Process Management, making it a valuable resource for both researchers and practitioners looking to expand their information systems expertise.