Bartosz Marcinkowski

University of Gdansk | UG · Department of Business Informatics

Globalization retains an imposing future for the managers of numerous companies, while the global information systems (IS) play a significant role in the connection, collection, access and analysis of information produced in interrelated operations from numerous national markets. The popularity of such systems in textile, manufacturing, finance and...

This study investigates data sources for Business Intelligence solutions, which provide a foundation for holistic analyses, optimization and forecasting of electrical power consumption within Facility Management for retail facilities networks. A multiple-case study among Polish subsidiaries of Sweden, France and UK-based companies along with a dome...

Purpose Process-oriented organizations are compelled to be innovative and continuously implement changes to meet customer requirements and gain a competitive advantage in accordance with the business process management approach. In the digital age, organizations develop business process support systems using agile methods and introduce adaptation s...

Purpose One of the leading factors that shape product and service delivery are data collected in databases and other repositories maintained by companies. The transformation of such data into knowledge and wisdom may constitute a new source of income. This paper aims to explore how small/medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) advance their business models...

This article reports on a domain-specific software development venture at Nordea. We explore organizational constraints, challenges, and corrective actions undertaken when scaling the agile development approach of their Core Banking Platform program. The fit and required customizations of the rather complex and rigid SAFe framework in a policy-heav...

In IT ecosystems that imply the exchange of data with systems on the customer or business partner side, it is oftentimes problematic or even borderline impossible to predict what external systems shall eventually be covered by integration and what technological solutions should be employed. Based on the feedback obtained in a series of interviews,...

This paper attempts to address the macroeconomic consequences of various crises impacting the economy, supply & demand balance, and supply chains. The authors, as a part of a joint logistic company-academia effort, enhanced the analytical potential in the field of data evaluation by providing a tool that monitors key indicators for road freight tra...

Despite a wide range of scaling frameworks available, large-scale agile transformations are not straightforward undertakings. Few organizations have structures in place that fit the predefined workflows – while once one applies an off-the-shelf framework outside of its prescribed process, guidance quickly runs out. In this paper, we demonstrate how...

After the COVID-19 breakout, agile teams found themselves in situations that “pure agilists” and textbooks on agile methods had preferred to ignore. Whereas agile mindsets helped them to quickly shift to remote work, mere virtualization of agile practices often proved insufficient, and several challenges emerged. This paper reports on an Action Res...

The PLAIS EuroSymposium 2022 was organized with the leading topic of “Digital Transformation”. The papers included in the proceedings are related to the use of machine learning, big data, and the Internet of Things in various applications. Other topics of the proceedings concern the current situation of ICT employees and their creativity via social...

The potential of the Internet and related digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cognition and artificial intelligence, data analytics, services computing, cloud computing, mobile systems, collaboration networks, and cyber-physical systems, are both strategic drivers and enablers of modern digital platforms with fast-evolving e...

Companies employ Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) reports to inform stakeholders on their activities and achievements regarding reducing carbon dioxide emissions and lowering electricity consumption. Whereas some frameworks for ESG reporting have been standardized, the capability to independently trace real actions undertaken l...

Blockchain technology is a very promising disruptive technology with the potential to address problems that afflict our society, making it more inclusive, fair, and resilient. However, on the other hand, there are some notorious cases of using blockchain-based cryptocurrencies for money laundering, human trafficking, and financing criminal activiti...

This thematic issue introduces two structured literature review articles as well as a couple of empirical ones. The authors of the literature reviews move into the broad field of assuring the quality of IT artifacts, focusing on different dimensions of the software engineering process. With the ever-increasing scale of computerization in more and m...

Nowadays, information and communication technologies (ICT) are a significant part of the modern economy, especially in countries in the process of political and economic transition. However, socioeconomic development is not possible without digital innovation. Novel ICT-solutions support different countries to improve their business competitiveness...

This paper develops a foundation for understanding how a rapid shift of focus towards the advancement of technological infrastructure – driven by the intensive internationalization of a company’s processes – impacts the information system development process itself. Five major issues regarding the engineering of software that directly supports busi...

Networking hardware might be considered a relatively unexposed enabler of the enormous success of the modern digital economy, and information technology of a global reach. The COVID-19 traffic spike across e-commerce portals puts further pressure on computer network component vendors and raises the bar regarding both performance and reliability. Th...

It has been recognised that students of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) tend to find their majors more of a challenge than their peers from any other course. That has a significant impact on their retention and engagement within the subject taught. What makes the content difficult to grasp is the fact that it is usually full of abstr...

The Computer Science (CS) industry stands out as male-dominated. On top of that, many companies struggle to retain women that dedicated themselves to enter careers in CS as they manage to do so. While initiatives to achieve gender parity within CS might be considered utopian, any form of discrimination against any gender in the industry is highly p...

This practitioner research insight explores how the usage patterns of reports targeted at internal decision-making evolved upon imposing COVID-19 restrictions Europe-wide that led to temporary Home Office conditions in a number of countries. The experiences of a multinational Facility Management group are discussed. The contribution identifies some...

In the contemporary highly competitive digital commerce market, it is easy to miss new online ventures being launched and those that go away. The success of such a venture is highly dependent on the quality of an e-commerce platform. Even more so in the case of dropshipping-based business models, where similarly-profiled businesses are intensively...

In the era of expensive energy carriers and care for the climate, companies are keen to take action towards bolstering energy efficiency. Businesses often lack data on actual energy consumption to date, are rarely equipped with adequate analytical tools, and do not have the know-how regarding the transition itself. Developing energy efficiency mana...

E-learning has become a widely accepted phenomenon that offers plethora of advantages to pupils, students as well as teaching staff. It is successfully utilized in academia and professional environments both in pure and blended forms. A number of studies focus on successful implementations of virtual learning environments and courses as well as inv...

Niniejszy rozdział poświęcono problematyce modelowania procesów biznesowych. Produkty wytworzone na etapie modelowania procesów mają szczególne znaczenie w kontekście wsparcia przez rozwiązania IT procesowości w organizacji gospodarczej, stanowiąc podstawę dla informatyzacji dalszych faz zarządzania procesami biznesowymi, takich jak symulacja czy w...

Niniejszy rozdział poświęcono teoretycznym podstawom oraz zasadom funkcjonowania sieci teleinformatycznych. Każda sieć posiada charakterystyczne cechy, dzięki którym można odpowiednio ją sklasyfikować i zaprojektować. Zasady transmisji w sieci opisują i wyjaśniają warstwowe modele odniesienia – w szczególności siedmiowarstwowy model ISO/OSI. Aby ka...

Enterprises adopt more and more information systems in order to extend range of provided services and support more business processes – and ultimately improve the ability to compete in the market. Individual IT solutions are implemented in different timelines, and, in addition, technologies behind them often vary significantly. For this reason, dat...

Traditional business models in Facility Management (FM) companies are aimed at handling service processes on commercial premises. Nowadays, such companies tend to collect large volumes of data from different sources and develop data-based products that assist in managing facilities. This is causing changes within their business models. In this pape...

While Business Intelligence brings new buzzwords each year, the maturity of many companies in terms of practical use of Business Intelligence (BI) often leaves much to be desired. Research shows that setting up Business Intelligence Competency Centers (BICCs) is among the means to narrowing the gap between the technological potential of BI and its...

Business Intelligence (BI) has been introduced in different areas in order to take better decisions and it provides diverse levels of information to the stakeholders, based on their information needs. Some organizations apply BI to control their energy costs. To achieve comprehensive knowledge of all factors that affect energy consumption, BI syste...

This article provides an enriched technology acceptance model explaining the impact of both classic and additional variables on software engineering tools acceptance within Information Systems Development courses. Two novel, domain-specific variables were identified (i.e., Professional Training Diffusion and Model Interchange). Statistical verifica...

IT solutions provide international and global businesses with effective means of coordinating local operations and facilitating flow of essential information and knowledge across national borders. The paper focuses on project management challenges regarding development of proprietary IT solution by a multinational facility management company ? SESC...

For many enterprises, internationalization plays a big role in their development process. To enter foreign market, global and multinational organizations must be able to manage and organize operations in different countries, with different currencies, time zones, suppliers and labor rules. To meet these challenges, organizations introduce and devel...

Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) is widely used for the assessment of acceptance factors in different fields of business and IT. A number of studies focus on university teaching with regard of technology acceptance as well. The paper is devoted to elaborating enhanced UTAUT model that takes into account the specificity of...

Data-related modeling capabilities within Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) are intentionally restricted to being handled within dynamic process perspective and do not enable implementation of individual processes in dedicated workflow engines and/or iterative improvement of process specifications by running simulations using specialized s...

Background and Purpose Business process simulation (BPS) model is based on real-life data form sources like databases, observations and interviews. It acts as “as-is” business scenario can used for reengineering. The main challenge is to gather relevant data and to develop simulation model. Research aims to elaborate BPS model and to systematically...

Artykuł prezentuje doświadczenia w zakresie integracji adaptacyjnych metod zarządzania projektami oraz płaszczyzny zarządzania procesami biznesowymi w organizacji gospodarczej w oparciu o studium przypadku firmy SESCOM S.A. z Gdańska. Celem opracowania jest formalizacja autorskiego modelu ABPM (Agile Business Process Management), który ma służyć uk...

Widely used methods for designing and optimizing business processes confirm that in numerous enterprises, analysts and managers are not aware of the feasibility of solutions provided by workflows’ computer simulations. It proves to be a challenge to satisfactorily address the question why the design of business processes is often reduced to creatin...

Artykuł poświęcono problematyce specyfikacji danych w modelach procesów biznesowych, opracowanych z wykorzystaniem notacji BPMN, która ma realne szanse stać się powszechnie akceptowanym standardem modelowania procesów. Opracowanie zakłada znajomość wspomnianej notacji na poziomie wystarczającym do poprawnej interpretacji studium przypadku dotyczące...

Nieodłącznym elementem dokumentacji projektowej systemów informatycznych są diagramy prezentujące infrastrukturę sprzętową i oprogramowania tworzonych systemów. Przykładem są diagramy wdrożeniowe, tworzone w języku UML. Można wyróżnić dwie konkretne odmiany takich diagramów - diagramy komponentów i rozlokowania, wykorzystywane odpowiednio do modelo...

Although MIS is one of the most quickly evolving areas of research and business activity, UML – including its implementation features – retains its exceptional stability, despite its relatively long history. UML still meets the crucial expectations of IS analysts and designers regarding the most current and modern digital and mobile applications as...

Increasing the flexibility of ICT teaching process may be achieved by extending the scope of application of e-learning tools. In order to reach candidates who may not fit the rigid course schedules, Cisco Academies consider application of simulation, emulation as well as remote equipment management environments. The goal of the current article to e...

Modelowanie i optymalizacja procesów biznesowych należą obecnie do najważniejszych działań związanych z organizacją pracy i zarządzaniem każdym nowoczesnym przedsiębiorstwem, niezależnie od jego profilu oraz branży, w której operuje. Działania te wymagają od kadry kierowniczej przeprowadzania rozmaitych analiz i symulacji, konfrontowania charaktery...

Rynek długookresowych programów szkoleniowych w dobie mnogości inicjatyw dofinansowanych ze środków europejskich jest rynkiem trudnym - podatnym na intensywne bodźce konkurencyjne i fluktuacje popytu. Czy w takich warunkach możliwe jest zarządzanie programem, którego skala na przestrzeni lat ma być względnie stabilna, przede wszystkim w oparciu o r...

During the years of prosperity, numerous organizations neglected numerous aspects of risk management. As systematic approach to handling identified risks is crucial to achieving success by the organization, modern business modeling standards and techniques are supposed to take risk-related features into account. The article is devoted to elaboratin...

Modelowanie systemów informatycznych w oparciu o język UML znalazło wiele zastosowań i jest obecnie przedmiotem nauczania na kierunkach informatycznych wielu światowych uczelni. UML stał się również inspiracją do opracowania licznych standardów branżowych, przyjmujących postać profili tego języka. Dla analityków, projektantów oraz inżynierów system...

Trwający dekady proces ewolucji notacji modelowania systemów in-formatycznych, procesów biznesowych oraz standardów o charakterze ogólnym zaowocował nowoczesnymi językami modelowania, takimi jak UML, BPMN czy też BPMS. Wciąż jednak istnieje szerokie pole dla dal-szych udoskonaleń. Artykuł koncentruje się na propozycji rozszerzeń no-tacji BPMS i BPM...

The aim of this paper is an investigation into the practicality of SysML Requirement Diagrams in requirement identification and specification for an Internet banking transactional platform. The research attempts to discover if SysML Requirement Diagrams can be applied not only for defining requirements in engineering domains, but also for conductin...

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been extensively used in the systems engineering domain. It has become a commonly accepted standard. However, not all expectations of system engineers have been met by UML. Therefore, a new language, based on UML but strongly supplemented by notions specific for the systems engineering field, has been propose...

Selection and proper application of business process modeling methods and techniques have a significant impact on organizational improvement capabilities as well as proper understanding of functionality of information systems that shall support activity of the organization. A number of business process modeling notations were implemented in practic...

SysML, czyli System Modeling Language, to nowy obiektowy język modelowania systemów. W prostej linii wywodzi się on z języka UML, który stanowił do tej pory swego rodzaju standard w inżynierii oprogramowania. SysML został dostosowany do specyficznych potrzeb inżynierów systemowych, zajmujących się projektami w sposób całościowy. Pozwala na specyfik...

Information systems modeling has gone through a meaningful evolution in which a significant place is occupied by information systems development methodologies, these are, in succession: structured, soft, object-oriented, and agile (Wrycza, 1999). At present, a particular position in this field has been achieved by UML (Unified Modeling Language), r...

One of the fundamental questions in the business activity of service providers is how to allocate existing resources in a WAN computer network in order to meet customers’ requirements and manage the bandwidth effectively. The aim of the current paper is to compare the effectiveness of software and hardware-based bandwidth allocation solutions in re...

UML 2 has become even more complicated and diverse set of graphical techniques than its predecessors. Therefore, system developers propose creation of its reduced, limited or minimal version called Light UML. This problem has become also the serious challenge for the UML aca-demic teachers. The goal of this paper is the study of specifying of the U...

UML 2.x version has become an even more complicated and diverse set of graphical techniques than its predecessors. Therefore, system developers propose preparation of its reduced, limited or minimal version called Light UML. This problem has become also a serious challenge for the UML academic teachers. The goal of this paper is the study of specif...

Rosnąca popularność programowania obiektowego zmieniła również metody modelowania systemów informatycznych. Modelowanie strukturalne zostało zastąpione przez modelowanie obiektowe. Standardem w tej dziedzinie stał się język UML (Unified Modelling Language) -- graficzny system wizualizacji, specyfikowania oraz dokumentowania składników systemów info...

Transition from UML 1.4/1.5 standard to its 2.0 version has brought modifications extensive enough to reassess some concepts and views. One of such views is isomorphism of interaction diagrams, no longer so obvious after extending the scope of available interaction diagrams. In the paper author verifies the statement concerning isomorphism of inter...

The aim of the paper is presentation of the assumptions and conclusions related to the UML 2 application in teaching practice of information systems development at postgraduate studies. The content of the paper is based on the experiences collected at University of Gdansk during the UML course lectures, laboratories supported by case studies, UML C...