Kurt Sandkuhl

University of Rostock · Institute of Computer Science

Many companies digitally transform their business models, processes, and services. They have also been using Enterprise Architecture Management approaches for a long time to synchronize corporate strategy and information technology. Such digitalization projects bring different challenges for Enterprise Architecture Management. Without understanding...

Though modeling tools are developing fast, today, enterprise modeling is still a highly manual task that requires substantial human effort. Today, human modelers are not only assigned the creative component of the process, but they also need to perform routine work related to comparing the being developed model with existing ones. Larger amount of...

Demand-responsive public transport, such as new mobility solutions (NMS), like car sharing, urban bikes or e-scooters, have become increasingly popular in big cities. NMS have started to influence the way people move in urban areas, but they are also expected to impact public transport operators and especially their IT landscape. The purpose of thi...

The specification of interfaces is critical in modularization and product architecture development. Literature defines product architecture as (1) the arrangement of functional elements, (2) the mapping from functional elements to physical components (3) the specification of the interfaces between interacting physical components. However, other sch...

Zusammenfassung Die neuerlichen Cyberangriffe auch auf kommunale Infrastrukturen verdeutlichen, dass auch Kommunen ein Informationssicherheitsmanagementsystem (ISMS) aufbauen müssen. Denn die Verwaltung trägt nicht nur für ihre eigenen Dienstleistungen Sorge, sondern auch dafür, dass die Daten von Bürgern auf Basis rechtlicher Vorgaben angemessen g...

Zusammenfassung Die angespannte Cybersicherheitslage, die anhaltende Pandemielage sowie die Digitalisierung der Gesellschaft verdeutlichen, dass sich die gesamte föderale Verwaltung Deutschlands den Herausforderungen eines kontinuierlichen Betriebs der digitalen Infrastruktur stellen muss. Gleichzeitig trägt die Verwaltung nicht nur für ihre eigene...

A multitude of regulations and the lack of established best practices make the market launch of ICT-based medical devices in Europe very complex. This paper is part of a project aiming at methodical support for medical device launch. Its goal is to investigate a management system for regulative compliance of ICT based medical devices. To understand...

In many industrial sectors, modularization of products and services is considered as an important contribution to increased efficiency and competitiveness. Research has developed many modularization approaches, however, there is a gap between industrial practice in modularization and state-of-research in this field, which partly is due to shortcomi...

Networks and ecosystems are involved in Open Innovation (OI) initiatives, their collaboration mediated by technology. A central element of OI is the generation of value as perceived by involved actors. The paper investigates how information systems supporting collaboration (CIS) facilitate the generation of perceived value for OI participants. As m...

The market launch and regulative assessment of ICT-based medical devices in Europe is very complex due to a multitude of regulations to be considered during requirements engineering and product management. Additionally, there are no established standards, best practices or support tools how to launch medical devices on the market. The paper is part...

Approaches and methods for enterprise modeling have been the subject of discussion and development in industry and academia during at least the last 30 years. Enterprise modeling supports organizations in coping with challenges related to dynamically changing business environments and the alignment of business goals and information systems to suppo...

The interaction between security management in public and private organisations includes complex challenges. In particular in critical infrastructure sectors, there is a need for instruments that enable the holistic and overarching management of private and public providers. Cross-organisational structures and processes should be defined, but are d...

Many physical products have been equipped with sensors, control units and actuators that allow monitoring and control via Internet. In this context, the paper defines “quantified products” (QP) exploiting the possibility of collecting and analyzing data during operation, not only on the level of a single product instance but for a complete fleet, w...

Modern administrative action is no longer conceivable without electronic communication and IT. The complexity of IT, the increasing degree of networking and the dependence of the administration on IT-supported procedures has led to the fact that security of IT and associated processes must be given high priority and a corresponding cybersecurity st...

Digital transformation of industrial areas resulted in new products and services that build upon innovative technologies and enable new kinds of business models. Quantified products (QP) are such a kind of new product category that exploits data of on-board sensors. A quantified product is a product whose instances collect data about themselves tha...

Digital transformation in combination with service ecosystems exploit and incorporate innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence, Internet of things or data analytics. For most enterprises, new digital business models and participation in service eco-systems lead to severe changes of the enterprise ar-chitecture (EA) and the need for...

The objective of this thematic issue was to show the diversity of research in the field of business informatics, both from the perspective of application areas and from the research methodologies applied. Application areas visible in this issue are product development in manufacturing industries, online learning in universities, innovation activiti...

Today, enterprise modeling is still a highly manual task that requires substantial human effort. Human modelers are not only assigned the creative component of the process, but they also need to perform routine work related to comparing the being developed model with the existing ones. Although the huge amount of information available today (big da...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the key drivers of digital transformation and challenges enterprises to adapt to its various requirements. Many companies fail to implement AI applications or have significant trouble because of data or process requirements. The changes in a company resulting from the implementation of AI applications can vary...

The current advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) combined with other digitalization efforts significantly impacts service ecosystems. Artificial intelligence has a substantial impact on new opportunities for the co-creation of value and the development of intelligent service ecosystems. Motivated by experiences and observations from digitali...

Nowadays, IT operations devolve many tasks in IT services to internal customers (i.e., IT self-service). The rationale for this service task devolvement is often to reduce the IT personnel’s workload. However, prior research has shown that IT operations often fail to achieve this goal. Existing methods for modeling and analyzing services fall short...

The 27th issue of CSIMQ presents four articles that cover a wide range of research topics. The articles are extended versions of previous publications. The topics of this issue start with the discussion of sound workflow specifications. It suggests control-flow-based methods. The range of topics ends with the discussion of literature results about...

When introducing new management systems and regulatory requirements, companies often have to change and adapt their operational and organisational structure, which usually leads to considerable work and costs. As there exist a plethora of different management systems and regulatory requirements, organisations need a systematic approach to avoid iso...

Platforms and their surrounding ecosystems are becoming increasingly important components of many companies' strategies. Artificial Intelligence, in particular, has created new opportunities to create and develop ecosystems around the platform. However, there is not yet a methodology to systematically develop these new opportunities for enterprise...

Organizations adopt new tools and technologies even more during the Covid19 pandemic. Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) as a holistic management discipline supports systematic adoption processes by integration business and IT concerns. This integrated view requires the participation of different stakeholders to EAM projects. To minimize the...

Enterprises and societies currently face crucial challenges, while Industry 4.0 becomes important in the global manufacturing industry all the more. Industry 4.0 offers a range of opportunities for companies to increase the flexibility and efficiency of production processes. The development of new business models can be promoted with digital platfo...

Digitalization and digital transformation have been an important topic for a lot of industries and application domains during the last years. In many enterprises, the result is a long list of digitalization projects – some of them completed, many still ongoing - and doubts about long-term benefits. Where are the disruptive effects of digital transf...

The company FutureTV produces and distributes self-produced videos in the fashion domain. It creates revenue through the placement of relevant advertising. The placement of apposite ads, though, requires an understanding of the contents of the videos. Until now, this tagging is created manually in a labor-intensive process. We believe that image re...

The transition from traditional to digital business models, i.e. digital transformation, requires a high degree of agility in enterprises and a way to systematically establish and control the required organizational and structural changes. Furthermore, digital business models often are triggered by technological innovations and lead to entirely new...

Enterprises are currently transforming their strategy, processes, and their information systems to extend their degree of digitalization. The potential of the Internet and related digital technologies, like Internet of Things, services computing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, big data with analytics, mobile systems, collaboration networ...

Enterprises are currently transforming their strategy, processes, and their information systems to extend their degree of digitalization. The potential of the Internet and related digital technologies, like Internet of Things, services computing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, big data with analytics, mobile systems, collaboration networ...

The importance of involving enterprise stakeholders in organizational transformation and development processes has been acknowledged in many scholarly publications in the context of business information systems research. Method and tool support for this is particularly explored and provided by the field of participatory enterprise modelling (PEM)....

Products and services are essential to an enterprise’s operations and hence they need to be designed, developed, and delivered in congruence with the enterprise’s business strategy and design. This paper investigates how to identify relevant aspects of products and services to be added to enterprise models by extending existing Enterprise Modeling...

New mobility solutions (NMS), such as car sharing, city bikes or e-scooters, have become increasingly popular in large cities. NMS have started to affect the way how people move in urban areas, but they can also be expected to affect public transportation companies and in particular their IT-landscape. The purpose of this paper is to investigate th...

This paper gives an overview of the existing research topics in the field of SME digitalization. Digitalization commonly causes severe changes in both, organizational structures, business models and the IT landscape of an enterprise, i.e., there is a need for business and IT-alignment. By means of a literature analysis and a subsequent systematic m...

This paper reports the discussion of the "Enterprise Modelling in Digital Age" plenary panel held at the PoEM2020 conference. The panel was concerned with the interplay between emergent digitalization, big data, high complexity, needs for competencies and collaboration, in the scope of enterprise modelling methods and enterprise architecture framew...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) management has been discussed as being supportive for implementation of regulations in enterprises and organizations, but the role of EA frameworks in this context has not been addressed intensely. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one of the most frequently discussed regulation in industry and researc...

Digital transformation has an increasing influence on business processes and new business models. A successful digital transformation in enterprises requires a holistic IT infrastructure in order to meet changing business requirements. Enterprises face the challenge of combining business and IT to benefit from existing technological attainments in...

Neue Mobilitčtslösungen (NML), wie Carsharing, City Bikes oder E-Scooter, werden in Großstčdten immer beliebter und gewinnen zunehmend Einfluss darauf, wie sich Menschen im Stadtgebiet fortbewegen. Mittelfristig ist zu erwarten, dass die Zunahme der NML-Kundenanzahl auch auf öffentliche Verkehrsunternehmen und insbesondere deren IT-Landschaft Auswi...

Objective, reproducible and quantifiable measurements based on well-defined metrics are a widespread instrument for quality assurance in engineering disciplines and also in ontology engineering. Ontology metrics allow for the assessment of their quality and the comparison of different versions of the same ontology. We argue that such a comparison a...

Complex systems and their analysis, construction, management or application are the motivation of all articles in this issue of CSIMQ. Different perspectives exist on what actually causes “complexity” in systems. In systems theory, a widely spread view is that complex systems have many components with emergent behavior, i.e. the large number and th...

Today, many companies are adapting their strategy, business models, products, services as well as business processes and information systems in order to expand their digitalization level through intelligent systems and services. The paper raises an important question: What are cognitive co-creation mechanisms for extending digital services and arch...

Not only companies, but also cities and public administrations are increasingly thinking about complementary and new digital business and corresponding service models due to growing digital networking, smarter services, omnipresent access technologies and dynamic customer requirements. Thus, the development and implementation of smart city technolo...

Industry 4.0 is a concept that has attracted much research and development over the last decade. At its core is the need to connect physical devices with their digital representations which essentially means establishing a digital twin. Currently, the technological development of digital twins has gathered much attention while the organizational an...

Predictive maintenance has the potential to improve the reliability of production and service provisioning. However, there is little knowledge about the proper implementation of predictive maintenance in research and practice. Therefore, we conducted a multi-case study and investigated underlying conditions and technological aspects for implementin...

Artificial Intelligence-based Assistants AIAs are spreading quickly both in homes and offices. They already have left their original habitats of "intelligent speakers" providing easy access to music collections. The initiated a multitude of new devices and are already populating devices such as TV sets. Characteristic for the intelligent digital as...

To create viable digital products from business and technical perspective, stakeholders from different enterprise functions should be involved. The focus of the paper is on the use of modelling approaches, in particular ontologies and enterprise models, for specifying the requirements to new services or products. There are hardly any reports of ont...

This paper deals with the question of how software enabling participatory enterprise modeling on a multi-touch table should be designed. We will present a pre-selection of existing HCI patterns addressing the requirements which come along with collaboratively creating enterprise models on a shared workspace. Moreover, we examined a software prototy...

Financial industries are undergoing a digital transformation of their products, services, overall business models. Part of this digitalization in banking aims at automating most of the manual work in payment handling and integrating the workflows of involved service providers. The focus of the work presented in this paper is on fraud discovery and...

The objective of this thematic issue was twofold. The first it was to present selected research results of the 17th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR2018) in Stockholm, Sweden, in September 24–26, 2018. The conference created a productive forum for researchers and practitioners on the specific topic – Bu...

Presenting information to a wide audience through digital signage has now become a very popular way in both public areas (shopping centers, exhibitions) and areas accessible by limited groups of people (condominiums, office buildings). This method of information delivery can be used both for advertising and for non-commercial information. Although...

Presently, many companies are transforming their strategy and product base, as well as their culture, processes and information systems to become more digital or to approach for a digital leadership. In the last years new business opportunities appeared using the potential of the Internet and related digital technologies, like Internet of Things, s...

Modeling methods have been proven to provide beneficial instrumental support for different modeling tasks during information system analysis and design. However, methods are a complex phenomenon that include constructs such as procedural guidelines, concepts to focus on, visual representations and cooperation principles. In general, method developm...

Abstract In the KOSMOS-2 project, a smart learning approach in form of a modern portal for students at Universities has been developed, called “MeinKosmos”. An important question from the point of view of universities and teachers is what the quality of such new tools are or what their benefits are. This article describes the evaluation approach de...

Enterprises are presently transforming their strategy, culture, processes, and their information systems to become more digital. The digital transformation deeply disrupts existing enterprises and economies. Digitization fosters the development of IT systems with many rather small and distributed structures, like Internet of Things or mobile system...

A successful digital transformation in enterprises requires surpassing infrastructural flexibility within firms and high IT competency to accomplish changing business requirements. Digital Enterprises are challenged to combine business and IT to gain from existing technological achievements. Previous studies showed that there are certain factors in...

Knowledge-based systems are used extensively to support functioning of enterprises. Such systems need to reflect the aligned business-IT view and create shared understanding of the domain. Ontologies are used as part of many knowledge-bases systems. The industrial context affects the process of ontology engineering in terms of business requirements...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2019, held in Katowice, Poland, in September 2019. This year’s theme was: Responsibilities of Digitalization – Responsible designing and shaping of future technology for digital preservation, global data storage and cost-...

New business opportunities appeared using the potential of the Internet and related digital technologies, like the Internet of Things, services computing, artificial intelligence, cloud, edge, and fog computing, social networks, big data with analytics, mobile systems, collaboration networks, and cyber-physical systems. Companies are transforming t...

Today, companies feel a need to invest in digital transformation due to customer demand and market pressure, but at the same time also experience many challenges in planning and implementing digital transformation processes. The aim of the paper is to facilitate this process in the following areas: identification of factors on digital transformatio...

Since the global financial crisis from 2007, an increasing number of regulatory requirements has forced financial institutions to implement a holistic and efficient approach for regulatory compliance management (RCM). The state of practice in financial institutions is characterized by various and segregated compliance programs. Research and practic...

Production networks have been established in many industrial domains with globalized supply structures, sourcing strategies or cooperation environments. Knowledge management in such networks requires a context-oriented approach in order to accommodate for individual and organizational needs when providing relevant knowledge for complex tasks, such...

IT operations aims to reduce the IT personnel’s workload in IT self-services, which is not self-evident. This study explores how the IT personnel’s workload can be reduced in IT self-services. A multiple- case study with five IT self-services was conducted. Data was collected from two German IT service providers and a European software company. The...

IT self-services have gained momentum in more and more organiza-tions in recent years. The rationale for IT self-services is the reduction of the IT personnel’s workload in IT service production. However, prior research has shown that the realization of this anticipated benefit is not self-evident. There-fore, scholars have called for research lead...

Enterprise modeling (EM) is an established practice in many organizations, but the majority of stakeholders in organizations who produce content relevant for EM use drawing or presentation tools instead of formalized EM techniques. The model-like content of such drawings or presentations often is very valuable for enterprises which calls for a way...

Information presentation to a wide audience on large screens (digital signage) is quite popular both in publicly accessible places (shopping malls, exhibitions) and in places accessible to limited groups of people (condominiums, company offices). It can be used for both advertisement and non-commercial information delivery. Though targeted informat...

Computational models in biology encode molecular and cell biological processes. These models often can be represented as biochemical reaction networks. Studying such networks, one is mostly interested in systems that share similar reactions and mechanisms. Typical goals of an investigation include understanding of the parts of a model, identificati...