scholarly journals How Digital Business Strategy Shapes Task Complexity in Datafication of Knowledge Work

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Wunderlich ◽  
Louise Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Task Complexity ◽  
Knowledge Work

Enterprise 2.0

2009 ◽  
pp. 61-93
Author(s):  
Javier Soriano ◽  
David Lizcano ◽  
Marcos Reyes ◽  
Fernando Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Enterprise 2.0 ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Suggested Approach ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
New Business ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Business Web

The Web is becoming in many respects a powerful tool for supporting business strategy as companies are quickly becoming more and more reliant on new Web-based technologies to capitalize on new business opportunities. However, this introduces additional managerial problems and risks that have to be taken into consideration, if they are not to be left behind. In this chapter we explore the Web’s present and future potential in relation to information sharing, knowledge management, innovation management, and the automation of cross-organizational business transactions. The suggested approach will provide entrepreneurs, managers, and IT leaders with guidance on how to adopt the latest Web 2.0-based technologies in their everyday work with a view to setting up a business Web strategy. Specifically, Enterprise 2.0 is presented as a key enabler for businesses to expand their ecosystems and partnerships. Enterprise 2.0 also acts as a catalyst for improving innovation processes and knowledge work.

Integrated Modeling

2011 ◽  
pp. 420-430
Author(s):  
Thomas Hadrich ◽  
Ronald Maier
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Modeling Approaches ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Process Oriented

Modeling is a key task in order to analyze, understand, and improve business processes and organizational structures, and to support the design, implementation, and management of information and communication technologies in general and knowledge management systems (KMSs) in particular. Process-oriented knowledge management (Maier, 2004; Maier & Remus, 2003) is a promising approach to provide the missing link between knowledge management (KM) and business strategy, and to bridge the gap between the human-oriented and technology-oriented views (e.g., Hansen, Nohria, & Tierney, 1999; Zack, 1999). However, existing modeling approaches for business processes, including their extensions for KM, still lack concepts to support knowledge work, which is often unstructured, creative, and learning and communication intensive. Recently, the activity theory has been proposed to provide concepts to analyze knowledge work (e.g., Blackler, 1995), but it has not yet been integrated with business process modeling for designing KM initiatives and KMSs. The following sections analyze the characteristics of knowledge work, distinguish important perspectives for modeling in KM, and discuss extensions of process modeling approaches including activity modeling. Then, the process-oriented and the activity-oriented perspectives on knowledge work are compared and connected by means of the concept of knowledge stance.

scholarly journals Enterprise 2.0

2011 ◽  
pp. 1663-1695
Author(s):  
Javier Soriano ◽  
David Lizcano ◽  
Marcos Reyes ◽  
Fernando Alonso ◽  
Genoveva López
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Enterprise 2.0 ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Suggested Approach ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
New Business ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Business Web

The Web is becoming in many respects a powerful tool for supporting business strategy as companies are quickly becoming more and more reliant on new Web-based technologies to capitalize on new business opportunities. However, this introduces additional managerial problems and risks that have to be taken into consideration, if they are not to be left behind. In this chapter we explore the Web’s present and future potential in relation to information sharing, knowledge management, innovation management, and the automation of cross-organizational business transactions. The suggested approach will provide entrepreneurs, managers, and IT leaders with guidance on how to adopt the latest Web 2.0-based technologies in their everyday work with a view to setting up a business Web strategy. Specifically, Enterprise 2.0 is presented as a key enabler for businesses to expand their ecosystems and partnerships. Enterprise 2.0 also acts as a catalyst for improving innovation processes and knowledge work.

Integrated Modeling

2011 ◽  
pp. 2559-2569
Author(s):  
Thomas Hadrich ◽  
Ronald Maier
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Modeling Approaches ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Process Oriented

Modeling is a key task in order to analyze, understand, and improve business processes and organizational structures, and to support the design, implementation, and management of information and communication technologies in general and knowledge management systems (KMSs) in particular. Process-oriented knowledge management (Maier, 2004; Maier & Remus, 2003) is a promising approach to provide the missing link between knowledge management (KM) and business strategy, and to bridge the gap between the human-oriented and technology-oriented views (e.g., Hansen, Nohria, & Tierney, 1999; Zack, 1999). However, existing modeling approaches for business processes, including their extensions for KM, still lack concepts to support knowledge work, which is often unstructured, creative, and learning and communication intensive. Recently, the activity theory has been proposed to provide concepts to analyze knowledge work (e.g., Blackler, 1995), but it has not yet been integrated with business process modeling for designing KM initiatives and KMSs. The following sections analyze the characteristics of knowledge work, distinguish important perspectives for modeling in KM, and discuss extensions of process modeling approaches including activity modeling. Then, the process-oriented and the activity-oriented perspectives on knowledge work are compared and connected by means of the concept of knowledge stance.

Integrated Modeling

2011 ◽  
pp. 251-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hadrich ◽  
Ronald Maier
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Modeling Approaches ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Process Oriented

Modeling is a key task in order to analyze, understand, and improve business processes and organizational structures, and to support the design, implementation, and management of information and communication technologies in general and knowledge management systems (KMSs) in particular. Process-oriented knowledge management (Maier, 2004; Maier & Remus, 2003) is a promising approach to provide the missing link between knowledge management (KM) and business strategy, and to bridge the gap between the human-oriented and technology-oriented views (e.g., Hansen, Nohria, & Tierney, 1999; Zack, 1999). However, existing modeling approaches for business processes, including their extensions for KM, still lack concepts to support knowledge work, which is often unstructured, creative, and learning and communication intensive. Recently, the activity theory has been proposed to provide concepts to analyze knowledge work (e.g., Blackler, 1995), but it has not yet been integrated with business process modeling for designing KM initiatives and KMSs. The following sections analyze the characteristics of knowledge work, distinguish important perspectives for modeling in KM, and discuss extensions of process modeling approaches including activity modeling. Then, the process-oriented and the activity-oriented perspectives on knowledge work are compared and connected by means of the concept of knowledge stance.

Human Capital and Global Business Strategy

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Thomas ◽  
Richard R. Smith ◽  
Fermin Diez
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Global Business

Gender Differences in the Mental Rotations Test (MRT) Are Not Due to Task Complexity

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna Titze ◽  
Martin Heil ◽  
Petra Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Task Complexity ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Medium Effects ◽  
Performance Factors ◽  
Mental Rotations ◽  
Sufficient Power ◽  
Forced Choice Tasks ◽  
Choice Tasks

Gender differences are one of the main topics in mental rotation research. This paper focuses on the influence of the performance factor task complexity by using two versions of the Mental Rotations Test (MRT). Some 300 participants completed the test without time constraints, either in the regular version or with a complexity reducing template creating successive two-alternative forced-choice tasks. Results showed that the complexity manipulation did not affect the gender differences at all. These results were supported by a sufficient power to detect medium effects. Although performance factors seem to play a role in solving mental rotation problems, we conclude that the variation of task complexity as realized in the present study did not.

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