Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Information Management

Die Finanzdienstleister befinden sich in einem Dilemma: Der elektronische Vertrieb erfordert ein Mithalten im Preiskampf. Den anspruchsvollen Kunden zu binden verlangt zugleich Individualisierung der Leistungen. Die virtuelle Beratung stellt einen Ausweg dar: Sie erlaubt es, den Kunden auf effiziente Weise mit individualisierten Leistungen zu versorgen. Die zentrale Herausforderung besteht dabei in der Elektronifizierung von Beratungsqualitat. Die Determinanten der Beratungsqualitat bilden das Fundament fur den idealtypischen Beratungsprozess. Dieser stellt den Leitfaden fur die am Kunden...

Throughout the past decade, the phenomenon of technological convergence has increasingly gained managerial attention. In this special form of technological change, the coming-together of previously distinct knowledge bases gives rise to the creation of new applications and business models. When such innovations emerge at the intersection of industries, the resulting creative destruction may exceed previously established industry boundaries. As a consequence, convergence does not only promise the creation of new value, but may imply significant disruptions to established industries. Based...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB) held in Brussels, Belgium, in June 2011.

This year's conference theme "Managing Software Innovation for Tomorrow's Business" reflects the specific challenges in the research domain of software business. The 14 papers accepted for ICSOB were selected from 27 submissions covering topics like software ecosystems, usage of open source software, software as a service, and software product and project management. The volume is completed by a short summary of the keynote and the two...

This edited book collects state-of-the-art research related to large-scale data analytics that has been accomplished over the last few years. This is among the first books devoted to this important area based on contributions from diverse scientific areas such as databases, data mining, supercomputing, hardware architecture, data visualization, statistics, and privacy.

There is increasing need for new approaches and technologies that can analyze and synthesize very large amounts of data, in the order of petabytes, that are generated by massively distributed data sources. This...

Imagine that you are the CEO of a software company. You know you compete in an environment that does not permit you to treat innovation as a secondary issue. But how should you manage your software innovation to get the most out of it?

This book will provide you with the answer.

Software innovation is multifaceted and the approaches used by companies can be very different. The team of authors that wrote this book took the assumption that there is no such thing as a universal software engineeringprocess or innovation process. Some things work well for a certain company, others...