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The objective of this paper, based on early results of the New Global study, is to explore how globalisation of markets and industries affects the way companies are operating and collaborating, and to investigate the opportunities which global networking and global collaborative working opens up for market players including Europe's large number of SMEs. A core focus is on how ICT-enabled collaborative...
The higher the complexity and multiplicity of relationships among SMEs is, the more necessary the involvement of sophisticated ICT solutions is. One such example are the relationships of recycling SMEs with business, economic, legal and ecologic environments, which require business models unthinkable without state-of-the-art ICT systems. The problem of reconciling e.g. increasingly severe legal and...
Manufacturing processes traceability has become increasingly important in many industrial sectors, as the way for tracking and tracing manufacturing data at different points in the production history. With the increasing level of collaboration and integration of supply chain in extended enterprises, traceability focus has changed from internal systems to external or chain traceability systems. Moreover,...
This paper describes a software prototype that was developed for estimating building environmental effects. The software uses generic building information represented using IFC standard together with product specific environmental profiles represented in Product Modelling Ontology (PMO). By combining these information sources, the software makes estimates of the environmental effects of the building...
This paper presents the design and implementation of a web-based platform for complex industrial product design and simulation, which integrates all the stakeholders in the product lifecycle by using collaborative tools. The research method used in this work relies on the analysis of industrial design and simulation, collaborative product development tools, security and control related aspects and...
The design of a decision support system (DSS) addressing usage, maintenance, recycling management along product lifecycle is a challenging task which is the basis for the development of the DSS itself. Seizing the chance offered by a EU-funded project which explores innovation in lifecycle management, the DSS general model was conceptualised for each lifecycle phase. In this paper we present and propose...
Recently farmer's market obtains attention of consumer as an alternative distribution channel for green vegetables and fruits in Japan. The market is managed as collaborative enterprise of independent farmers of which most of them are small-scale and aged. We have proposed a business model for the market and implemented information systems of inventory control and web promotion. The system is characterized...
The aging of our society presents a range of challenges to various commercial and institutional service providers. With the advanced mobile technologies we are now able to develop quality mobile services to help senior citizens' daily lives in dedicated smart living environments. This paper adds an extension to a previously reported systematic approach to design and develop mobile services which meet...
To satisfy consumer demands co-ordination between member organisations of a supply chain is necessary. Various co-ordination mechanisms exist, like standardisation of products or processes, quality management systems, chain integrators, or inter-organisational information systems. In this paper we will investigate which type of co-ordination mechanisms are suitable to use in connection with particular...
Today's need for more complex, more capable systems in a short timeframe is leading more organizations towards the integration of existing systems into network-centric, knowledge-based system-of-systems (SoS). Cross-agency collaborations are critical to the success of e-government, which has great potential to transform the way that governments work, share information and deliver services to external...
This paper presents the results of a study that assesses innovation in the Dutch food processing industry, conducted in nine leading prospector companies with headquarters or major operations in the Netherlands. A 52-item research questionnaire, based industrial organization theory and the Resource-Based-View, was designed for this study, including quantitative questions on business performance, and...
This speculative paper presents research questions concerned with the transition from manufacturing to service in firms and the role of design in firms making it. The transition is recognised in the marketing and operations-management literatures but the business implications are not fully understood, leaving scope for empirical research to fill the gap in knowledge. It is recognised that products...
The value of design is increasingly recognised, but design is often overlooked in favour of R&D in the measurement of innovation. Design is difficult to define, which makes it difficult to measure in financial terms. R&D was previously considered difficult to measure, but, as it is now well defined, financial measures of R&D have been established. Several previous studies demonstrated...
The paper proposes the use of product data technology to better manage the complexity of information needed to design products with a low environmental impact throughout the whole life cycle, from the "cradle to the grave". The use of these standards has to be considered as an investment which brings not only to meet the requirements of the Integrated Product Policy promoted by the European...
This paper presents an overview of the Web Service Execution Environment (WSMX) and its basic support for issues originating in the Enterprise Interoperability (EI) problem domain. WSMX is a reference implementation of the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO), which is a conceptual model used to describe various aspects related to Semantic Web Services (SWS). WSMX is an execution environment aiming...
The new business context changes the way in which Enterprise Interoperability (EI) serves business needs. Instead of connecting partners in an extended and deterministic enterprise to support business as usual, EI now needs to accommodate continuous, emergent changes. As a result, a direct correlation between value innovation, open business models and Enterprise Interoperability can be drawn: it confirms...
Collaborative engineering has been discussed as a solution for complex technological projects for a long time. Still, adoption of this management technique remains limited. The paper identifies theoretical issues in understanding and modeling collaborative work practices and respective coordination related challenges in the project management of collaborative engineering which are derived from the...
Collaboration is a hot issue, and is to an increasing extent recognised as a key driver of overall business performance, innovation capabilities and productivity. However, few companies methodically evaluate how well they perform in the area of collaboration, and few companies have implemented management and leadership principles to systematically improve collaborative performance. This article describes...
With the wearIT@work project the European Commission and 42 partners from 16 countries invested into a new technology empowering mobile workers. The first 42 months of this project are over and industrial demonstrators, evaluations and results and an exploitation strategy are available. Beside the four application domains of maintenance, production, healthcare and emergency response further domains...
The dissemination of information and communication technologies for supporting the conduct of business operations is turning supply chain organisations into supply networks. Planning the collaborative activities of all the stakeholders involved in supply networks under the constraints of quality, cost and time is a key issue. After having described the architecture of supply networks by contrasting...
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