Tobias Brockmann

University of Duisburg-Essen | uni-due · Abteilung Informatik und Angewandte Kognitionswissenschaft

The relevance of mobile working is steadily increasing. Based on new mobile devices (e.g. smartphones) and their innovative functionalities, an increasing amount of data is being made available ubiquitously. As a result, the growing diffusion of smartphones offers new potential for enterprises. Current mobile devices and related mobile networks hav...

In recent years, software for collaborative improvement of master data quality has been increasingly introduced into public administration. With the support of this collaborative software, master data is not only managed by one stakeholder such as an individual or department but rather cross-institutionally and across departments by groups of sever...

The last few years have seen more and more employees using their personal mobile devices for work-related tasks. This phenomenon is part of a broader trend known as IT consumerization. Enterprises and employees have recognized that they might profit from these developments and implemented “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) policies, but they also have...

Despite the fact that enterprise social software solutions such as IBM Connections and Microsoft Sharepoint are able to increase the communication as well as the collaboration among employees, companies are constantly confronted with the necessity to improve their employees' motivation to interact with the system. Since gamification has been identi...

Social software solutions in enterprises such as IBM Connections are said to have the potential to support communication and collaboration among employees. However, companies are faced to manage the adoption of such collaborative tools and therefore need to raise the employees' acceptance and motivation. To solve these problems, developers started...

Der Artikel greift die aktuelle rasante Entwicklung im Bereich der mobilen Kommunikation im Unternehmenskontext auf. Ausgangsfragestellung ist hierbei: Wie können Unternehmen mobile Endgeräte und mobile Applikationen so in ihre Geschäftsprozesse integrieren, dass Mehrwerte entstehen? Basierend auf einer empirischen Umfrage unter 200 Entscheidungstr...

In recent years, the diffusion of mobile applications (mobile apps) has risen significantly. Nowadays, mobile business apps are strongly emerging in business, enhancing productivity and employees’ satisfaction, whilst the usage of customized individual enterprise apps is still an exception. Standardized business apps enable basic functionalities, f...

The relevance of mobile working is steadily increasing. Based on new mobile devices (e.g. smartphones) and their innovative functionalities, an increasing amount of data is being made available ubiquitously. As a result, the growing diffusion of smartphones offers new potential for enterprises. Current mobile devices and related mobile networks hav...

In diesem Beitrag werden auf Basis einer Umfrage unter 200 Entscheidungsträgern in deutschen Unternehmen der Status quo und die Erfolgsfaktoren für die Einführung mobiler Applikationen hin zu einer Mobile Enterprise vorgestellt und diskutiert. Begünstigende Faktoren sind demnach der Integrationsgrad der Anwendungen in Workflows und Kommunikationspr...

The increasing diffusion of mobile devices is changing the working environment and implicating new challenges for enterprises. Mobile applications specifically designed to the enterprises’ needs, so-called Enterprise Apps, conquer the market. Enterprise Apps support e.g. enterprise processes to enhance the communication possessing interface to exis...

In diesem Artikel untersuchen wir „Mobile Learning" an Universitäten und zeigen auf Basis einer Befragung unter Studenten den Stand der Nutzung von mobilen Apps in der Lehre an zwei verschiedenen deutschen Universitäten auf und leiten Potentiale für eine mobileApp gestützte Lehre ab.

Museums face the problem of a decreasing number of visitors. One way to solve this problem is to attract new target groups such as young people. Therefore, some museum started to develop online museums where they digitally present their exhibition artefacts to a larger audience. One way to reach this goal are virtual environments. But how can poten...

GeNeMe steht für Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien, im englischen Sprachgebrauch bezeichnet als Web-based Communities oder Online Communities. Einen wichtigen Impuls erfuhren die wissenschaftliche Analyse und die wirtschaftliche Nutzung dieser Communities unter der Metapher des Web2.0. Internet-basierte Technologien wie z. B. Social Media Werkzeuge, a...

Companies’ adoption of social media has strongly increased in recent years. Managers are challenged to inform their employees about the potentials and the risks associated by using social media in enterprise communication. Providing guidelines on social media usage for employees is twofold: on the one hand guidelines might increase the awareness of...

In recent years, augmented reality applications became more popular due to a more user-friendly design and technical improvements. Currently, augmented reality applications start to play a growing role for communication and collaboration. Some researchers classified and structured augmented reality applications in different domains, but an overall...

In recent years virtual worlds left their origins driven by new technologies. Following, 3D-based environments moved into business related domains and are used e.g. to support virtual meetings or product presentations. However, enterprises have to consider that large share of companies' employees still fit to the definition of so-called digital imm...

In the last years social media as well as mobile applications are of growing relevance for public political discussions and therefore for the approach of e-participation. However, studies show that there is still a low degree of involvement of politicians and citizens. Current research regularly focuses on how citizens can be enabled to more effect...

The increasing diffusion of smartphone's and usage of mobile devices in general, leads to a perennially crescendo diffusion of mobile social media. This development does not only affect private persons but also organizations such as enterprises. Companies may adopt mobile social media to communicate with customers (B2C) e.g. by utilizing location b...

Recently, market researchers predicted a global market penetration of one billion smartphones by the year 2016. 350 million smartphone owners will be using their device for business purposes. Following those studies, this will definitely change the working environment and confront CIOs with new challenges. In order to identify how IT business value...

In the last years the rise of mobile devices and mobile applications alike changed the working environment massively. Within this realm mobile Business Intelligence (mobile BI) currently is one of the trending topics, however, until now very little conceptual work exists in this field. Therefore, we provide an overview of related work in the fields...

Social media enable individuals to share knowledge, experiences, opinions, and ideas among each other. With regard to political sector, social media can be an enabler for participation and democracy among citizens. As the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaigns have shown, social media platforms such as social network sites (SNSs), microblogging...

Since companies have recognized that the integration of customers into processes of product innovation has become a critical factor for success, new concepts of virtual customer integration have been developed to investigate customer's needs and to identify customer-generated ideas. Virtual worlds seem to be promising in means of support customer i...

Aufgrund der hohen Diffusion von mobilen Endgeräten, dem zunehmenden Ausbau der Netzinfrastruktur und der Forderung nach Kosteneinsparungen und Effizienzsteigerung sind Unternehmen in der Lage und in der Pflicht, Geschäftsprozesse mobil zu unterstützen. In diesem Artikel werden auf Basis einer Umfrage unter 200 Entscheidungsträgern in deutschen Unt...

Unternehmen haben bereits vor einigen Jahren erkannt, dass die Einbindung von Kunden in den produktorientierten Innovationsprozess zukünftig ein kritischer Erfolgsfaktor werden kann. Nicht nur die Bedürfnisse von Kunden können so besser erkannt werden, es können auch Ideen der Kunden aufgegriffen werden. Social Media bieten hierbei die Möglichkeit,...