A Meta-Level Design Science Process for Integrating Stakeholder Needs - Demonstrated for Smart City Services

Modeling and Visualizing Smart City Mobility Business Ecosystems: Insights from a Case Study

Information ◽

10.3390/info9110270 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. 270 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Anne Faber ◽

Sven-Volker Rehm ◽

Adrian Hernandez-Mendez ◽

Florian Matthes

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Design Science ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Knowledge Flows ◽

Sustainable Mobility ◽

Ecosystem Models ◽

Business Ecosystem ◽

Proactive Management ◽

Business Ecosystems

Smart mobility is a central issue in the recent discourse about urban development policy towards smart cities. The design of innovative and sustainable mobility infrastructures as well as public policies require cooperation and innovations between various stakeholders—businesses as well as policy makers—of the business ecosystems that emerge around smart city initiatives. This poses a challenge for deploying instruments and approaches for the proactive management of such business ecosystems. In this article, we report on findings from a smart city initiative we have used as a case study to inform the development, implementation, and prototypical deployment of a visual analytic system (VAS). As results of our design science research we present an agile framework to collaboratively collect, aggregate and map data about the ecosystem. The VAS and the agile framework are intended to inform and stimulate knowledge flows between ecosystem stakeholders in order to reflect on viable business and policy strategies. Agile processes and roles to collaboratively manage and adapt business ecosystem models and visualizations are defined. We further introduce basic categories for identifying, assessing and selecting Internet data sources that provide the data for ecosystem models and we detail the ecosystem data and view models developed in our case study. Our model represents a first explication of categories for visualizing business ecosystem models in a smart city mobility context.

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Research on the Problems and Countermeasures of Taiyuan Smart City Construction

Journal of Architectural Research and Development ◽

10.26689/jard.v5i3.2198 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Lifang Shi

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Development Trend ◽

Investment Policies ◽

Level Design ◽

City Construction ◽

Countermeasures And Suggestions

Taking Taiyuan City as the research object, this paper sorts out the problems in smart city construction from four aspects, and based on the analysis of their deep-seated reasons, combined with the practice and development trend of Taiyuan City’s smart city construction, 4 items have been put forward. Strong operability countermeasures and suggestions: strengthen the top-level design, clarify the construction ideas; formulate preferential investment policies to solve the capital dilemma; give full play to geographical advantages, clarify the focus of construction, etc.

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A double design-science perspective of entrepreneurship – the example of smart contracts in the insurance market

Journal of Work-Applied Management ◽

10.1108/jwam-08-2020-0037 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Christian Hugo Hoffmann

Keyword(s):

Teaching Method ◽

Design Science ◽

Design Principles ◽

Innovative Teaching ◽

Content Type ◽

Meta Level ◽

Insurance Firms ◽

Continuous Support ◽

Flight Delay

PurposeFollowing the call for strengthening the third pillar of knowledge in entrepreneurship as well as work-applied management contexts constituted by pragmatic design principles, we present a case study on an insurtech for insurance firms specialized in smart contract insurance solutions such as flight delay or ski resort insurance.Design/methodology/approachDesign science.FindingsThis not only serves as a pointer for how insurances may master their digital transformation while remaining competitive. But moreover, on the meta level, we find that the adoption of entrepreneurial design principles by the students, whose experiential project represents our case study, does not necessarily require continuous support or foundational knowledge to be delivered beforehand. However, for a deeper or more holistic assessment of the case sketched in their project, it makes sense to introduce them to newer developments such as the simple, practical framework of the Entrepreneur's Question Index.Originality/valueInnovative teaching method on innovative topics.

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