Autor: Anja Hofer

The article gives an overview about the results of the “Automotive Survey 2005” which was commissioned by IDS Scheer Germany and carried out by the Institute for Information Systems (IWi) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). The survey focuses on innovations in the automotive industry, in particular the automotive supplier industry. This article concentrates on business process innovations and their relation to cross-organisational co-operation. The current situation as well as a prospect of its development towards c-business is given at the end of the article.

The article describes an integrated approach for the introduction and continuous management of e-business scenarios and applications in SME. This model enriches existing and publicly available consulting approaches with phases for optimizing business processes, the implementation and introduction of e-business applications and a continous process improvement.