information technology

The increasing demand for collaborative value chains challenges the IT. Both the integration of a heterogeneous and complex process and IT-landscape in a short time and the flexible support of new requirements from the business have to be assured. The dynamism of cooperation makes an exact planning of implementation and IT-costs exceedingly difficult. Therefore, the article shows a method that allows a systematic and structured planning and design of the IT in value-added networks.

A lot of attention has been spent to the front-end of product innovation during the past decades. Different approaches to support the front-end were carried out from industry as well as in research. In parallel, the technological options in managing information and knowledge have been tremendously increased. This paper examines the question if - and how - the front-end of product-innovation can yet be supported by information technology: an overview on information objects in the early phases is given, standard software is evaluated and prototype - overcoming the shortcomings of existing software - presented.

Today, intelligent cognitive systems are expected to provide the user at the machine with situation-dependent information in regard to the sequence of actions. The resulting requirements are analyzed in this paper and based on this, an information model is developed which is machine-oriented and computer-processable. With this information model not only the structural and functional aspects of the machine but also the actions of the user are described. By the situational extraction of relevant instructions according to the information model the machine user is supported in his decision making.

An effective knowledge management is only possible through an indirect management, i.e. associated circumstances have to be analyzed and improved. From this objective in German and Turkish enterprises in Istanbul an enterprise study was performed. It has been noticed from the findings of the research that the answers differentiate significantly according to execution of programmed information management activities and the number of employees.