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- ZeitschriftenartikelDo Reflexive Software Development Teams Perform Better?(Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 59, No. 5, 2017) Kakar, Adarsh KumarReflexivity, the extent to which teams reflect upon and modify their functioning, is widely recognized as a key factor influencing performance of work teams. The paper proposes that outcome interdependence, defined as the extent to which team members perceive that attainment of goals by their colleagues will facilitate their own goal achievement, will moderate the effect of team reflexivity on its performance. An empirical study with 332 team members of 34 software projects reveals that as predicted team reflexivity and outcome interdependence have both synergistic and antagonistic impacts on team performance. While high outcome interdependence magnified the positive impacts of team reflexivity on its effectiveness, an increase in team reflexivity at low outcome interdependence had a deleterious impact. However, an opposite effect was observed for team efficiency. Further, agile teams demonstrated higher outcome interdependence and team reflexivity, and thereby higher effectiveness, but lower efficiency, compared to teams adopting plan-drive methods of software development. Finally, in general, agile software development projects performed better than plan driven projects for innovative software development, while projects adopting plan-driven methods performed better than agile projects for routine software development.
- ZeitschriftenartikelMethodology and Tool Support for Adaptive Idea Exploitation in Open Innovation(Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 59, No. 5, 2017) Huber, SebastianThe lack of efficiency and transparency regarding cross-company collaboration in the field of open innovation often leads to cost intensive and unsuccessful products and services. This is because traditional approaches fail to cope with emerging requirements in innovation projects, e.g., the vertical and horizontal integration of strategic partners within and across the company’s value network. However, to maintain their competitive advantage, companies seek a constant and sustainable development of their product and service portfolio. In this context, knowledge work plays an important role in the collaborative development of innovative product and service ideas. For that reason, knowledge workers need systematic support regarding both methodological and operational challenges. The concept of Adaptive Case Management emerged from the necessity to support knowledge workers in unpredictable and highly creative working environments, especially in the field of Business Process Management. Therefore, the contribution shows, both from a conceptual and technological point of view, how to combine those approaches to support knowledge workers in dynamic innovation projects. To test the validity of the concept, a software prototype serves as the foundation for interviews with experts of the innovation department of a large international industrial company.
- ZeitschriftenartikelIntegration Platform as a Service(Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 59, No. 5, 2017) Ebert, Nico; Weber, Kristin; Koruna, Stefan
- ZeitschriftenartikelTowards a User-Centered Feedback Design for Smart Meter Interfaces to Support Efficient Energy-Use Choices(Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 59, No. 5, 2017) Dalén, Anders; Krämer, JanBased on interviews of users’ experience with current smart-meter technologies the authors propose, implement and evaluate a user-centered design of an energy-use information system that assists private households in making efficient energy consumption decisions. Instead of providing disaggregated data, the envisioned system automatically calculates the monetary savings from replacing an appliance or by changing the operational behavior of an appliance. The information provided is personalized with respect to appliance use and also comprises information from external databases. A prototype is implemented and evaluated in a use case with white goods household appliances. The study concludes with directions for further interactivity improvements and research into the structures of an openly shared appliance database.
- ZeitschriftenartikelA Multilevel Model of IT Platforms for the Needs of Enterprise IT Landscape Analyses(Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 59, No. 5, 2017) Kaczmarek-Heß, Monika; Kinderen, SybrenConceptual modeling supports analyses of IT artifacts and the enterprise action system they are embedded in. However, in this paper it is argued that for IT landscape analyses existing modeling approaches fall short due to, among others, (a) problems with accounting for specifics of the IT domain, e.g., an elaborate technical terminology with various hierarchy levels, and (b) inadequate support for automated analyses within and across those different levels. In this paper, the authors discuss how a designed multilevel model of IT platforms created using the multilevel modeling language FMMLx can help overcome these problems. To this end, limitations of IT platform models created with conventional, two-level modeling languages are shown. Furthermore, benefits resulting from the application of the selected multilevel modeling language are discussed.
- ZeitschriftenartikelResponsible Data Science(Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 59, No. 5, 2017) Aalst, Wil M. P.; Bichler, Martin; Heinzl, Armin