Bart-Jan van Putten

• PhD
• PhD Student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Ageing consumers make up a large and growing market, which can be served successfully when producers understand and address technology acceptance factors.

Reusing evaluation criteria and valuation methods is a promising way to make it easier to develop reliable business cases for IS investments. Better support for reuse can support the comparison and prioritization of business cases, can make it easier for decision makers to understand them and it can facilitate learning.

Business case development (BCD) can be supported by a business case framework (BCF), which often comes in the form of a spreadsheet template with some pre- defined criteria and methods. Today’s BCFs are, however, often too generic, providing little support for business case (BC) developers who need to define domain- specific criteria and methods. O...

Determining the value of an information system for an organization is challenging, especially before the execution of the project in which the system is put into operation. Many organizations cope with problems when having to identify the potential benefits of the investment, while even more have difficulties with their quantification. An analysis,...

Today’s BCFs are not based on a standardized model of what a BC is. As a consequence, most BCFs and BCs are structured rather differently. This hampers the broader applicability of those BCFs and limits benchmarking. If however BCFs would share a common model, parts of BCs could be reused. BC developers could learn from earlier BCs developed by oth...

Today’s business case frameworks (BCF) are either too generic, providing too little support for domain-specific business case development (BCD), or are sufficiently specific but not based on a generic BCD process. Such BCF do not allow for reuse of investment criteria or quantification methods, which hampers the broader applicability of those BCF a...

Business case development (BCD) is a complex activity, which can be improved by supporting the reuse of investment criteria (benefits, costs, risks) and valuation methods. The aim of this paper was to find out why certain methods are more likely to be reused than others, from the perspective of usability.

For decades, determining the value and success of information systems (IS) has been high on the agendas of researchers, cf. (King & Schrems, 1978; Davis, 1989; Urbach, Smolnik, & Riempp, 2009; Schryen, 2010). Many IS investments are strategic in nature, have long-term, hard to quantify benefits and incur indirect costs (Irani, 2002). 68% of IS proj...

Business cases (BC) are often used to support information systems (IS) investment evaluation. Unfortunately, business case development (BCD) is a complex task, especially identifying and quantifying the benefits of a proposed investment. Although today’s business case frameworks (BCF) support BCD to some extent, they have several limitations

Business case development (BCD) is a complex activity, which can potentially be improved by supporting the reuse of investment criteria and valuation methods. The goal of this research was to improve the usefulness and usability of business case frameworks (BCFs), while limiting the effort required to develop and maintain static databases of reusab...

Business cases (BC) are often used to support information systems (IS) investment evaluation. Unfortunately, business case development (BCD) is a complex task, especially identifying and quantifying the benefits of a proposed investment. Although today's business case frameworks (BCF) support BCD to some extent, they have several limitations. Based...

It is advantageous for companies to have an in-depth understanding of their business processes. To support companies in decision making, based on the properties of their business processes, a method was developed for the automatic analysis of business process models. A machine-readable representation of the model is parsed to extract several featur...

The agility of companies can be increased when implementing merged or changed business models in the organization and when using business cases to determine if it is time to change the business model. This study clarifies the relation between business models, as an implementation of a company's strategy, and business cases, as an abstraction of a c...

The Future Factory Initiative is a joint effort between SAP Research and industrial and academic partner organizations to foster research and development for the manufacturing industry. One of the main efforts is the Future Factory Lab. Based on a scenario for high-variant, discrete manufacturing, the Future Factory applies evolving technologies an...

Today's air traffic management system is not expected to scale to the projected increase in traffic over the next two decades. Enhancing collaboration between the controllers and the users of the airspace could lessen the impact of the resulting air traffic flow problems. The authors summarize a new concept that has been proposed for collaborative...

Today’s air traffic management system is not expected to scale to the projected increase in traffic over the next two decades. Enhancing collaboration between the controllers and the users of the airspace could lessen the impact of the resulting air traffic flow problems. The authors summarize a new concept that has been proposed for collaborative...

The organizational view on work systems focuses on the desired outcomes of work, while the emergent view focuses on how the work actually gets done. Often a gap exists between these two, because workers pursue individual objectives in addition to the organizational objectives. Agent-based simulations can be used to improve work practice and thereby...

The organizational view on work systems focuses on the desired outcomes of work (i.e., the work process) while the emergent view focuses on how the work actually gets done (i.e., the work practice). Often a gap exists between these two, because workers pursue individual objectives in addition to the organizational objectives. Agent-based modeling a...

Traffic Flow Management (TFM) is a complex field that involves a variety of participants, terminology, concepts, actions, and relationships. We are in the process of building an agent-based simulation of a proposed concept of Collaborative Traffic Flow Management (CTFM), and found that informal representations were not adequate, given the complexit...