http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10612 2026-07-21T13:56:02Z 2026-07-21T13:56:02Z Köffer, Sebastian Ortbach, Kevin Junglas, Iris Niehaves, Björn Harris, Jeanne http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10655 2018-03-26T09:09:41Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Innovation Through BYOD? Köffer, Sebastian; Ortbach, Kevin; Junglas, Iris; Niehaves, Björn; Harris, Jeanne Leveraging the IT innovation capabilities of employees is becoming increasingly feasible in the era of IT consumerization. Consumer IT tools, in form of tablets, smartphones, or social media, are entering organizations and are changing the way employees use technology for work. In this article, the authors decipher the term IT consumerization in more detail by providing a framework that illustrates the various perspectives of the phenomenon. They then apply the various perspectives in order to propose an IT consumerization framework that juxtaposes consumer IT with enterprise IT in its ability to lead to individual IT innovation behaviors. Using data from 486 European employees that work for large-sized companies, they are able to infer that consumer IT and the permission to use privately owned IT exert positive effects on employees’ innovation behaviors. An examination of the various perspectives supports the assumption of science and practice that BYOD strategies and the diffusion of consumer IT within organizations are beneficial for innovation. The results provide a first step in theorizing about the innovative power of IT consumerization.

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Winter, Robert Bichler, Martin Heinzl, Armin http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10654 2018-03-26T09:09:41Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teaching Winter, Robert; Bichler, Martin; Heinzl, Armin

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Mertens, Peter Barbian, Dina http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10656 2018-03-26T09:09:41Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Researching “Grand Challenges” Mertens, Peter; Barbian, Dina Attempts have been made to identify the grand challenges (GC) in quite different disciplines including Computer Science. These major problems should be solved within one or two generations and the solution would have great societal and economic impact. GCs are to be distinguished from the improvement of methods where the basic problem has already been solved (“emerging fields”). Among other purposes, a common understanding of GCs within a community helps to focus efforts and resources and to create a climate of competition. With our study we try to gain an impression whether a certain consensus is within reach in Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE; Wirtschaftsinformatik, WI) in the German speaking area. We used a multi-staged opinion survey among scientists and practitioners of WI and could establish an order of precedence concerning the most important GCs. At the top ranks the item “Control of systemic risks in global networks”, followed by “Humanlike Information Systems in business context”, “Determining the influences on the degree of automation und integration”, “Influence of WI on the solution of semantic data processing problems”, and “Overcoming of communication barriers in inter-company integration”. We discuss drawbacks of the GC concept as well as attempts to improve the method. One main problem is to distinguish the terms “grand challenges” (GC), “emerging fields” (EF), and “new research goals” (NR).

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Eymann, Torsten Legner, Christine Prenzel, Manfred Krcmar, Helmut Müller, Günter Liggesmeyer, Peter http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10658 2018-03-26T09:09:41Z 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Addressing Grand Challenges Eymann, Torsten; Legner, Christine; Prenzel, Manfred; Krcmar, Helmut; Müller, Günter; Liggesmeyer, Peter

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z