scholarly journals The Digitalization of Local Owner-Operated Retail Outlets: How Environmental and Organizational Factors Drive the Use of Digital Tools and Applications

2021 ◽  
pp. 329-341
Author(s):  
Lars Bollweg ◽  
Soeren Baersch ◽  
Richard Lackes ◽  
Markus Siepermann ◽  
Peter Weber
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Process ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Retail Outlets ◽  
Digital Options ◽  
Digital Channels

The digitalization of the retail industry is a disruptive innovation process which endangers the very existence of Local Owner Operated Retail Outlets (LOOROs). Despite the manifold digital options to regain competitive power, LOOROs struggle in their digital transformation and persist often in their traditional business behaviour. As their customers get more and more used to buying via digital channels, they more and more expect the provision of digital services. This paper and the presented survey among 223 LOORO owners from 26 cities in Germany aim to understand why the LOOROs are so hesitant. Our findings show high insecurity among LOOROs about what to do and where to begin the digitalization route. The owners of LOOROs are often decoupled from their near and far business environment. This leads to a wrong self-assessment and implies the risk that the services provided do neither match the competitive environment nor customer expectations.

scholarly journals External Environmental Analysis For Small And Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather C. Banham
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Medium Enterprises

<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) face unique challenges in the business environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>SMEs need to successfully deal with the prevalent forces for change if they are to survive and grow and meet the expectations to create investment and employment opportunities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Successfully adapting to change from technological advances, customer expectations, supplier requirements, the regulatory environment and increasing competition requires successful implementation of organizational change. The &lsquo;Degrees of Turbulence&rsquo; Model is proposed as a self assessment tool to aid SMEs in their environmental scan and to assist in assessing the potential impact and adjusting to the impending changes in the external environment to ensure continued viability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></strong></p>

scholarly journals SERVICE CREATION FOR RE-NORMALISING ESSENTIAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT: A PREVENTION BASED DIGITAL TECH APPROACH

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2631-2640
Author(s):  
Santosh Maurya ◽  
Tezuka Shin ◽  
Kentaro Watanabe ◽  
Hiroshi Nakagoe
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Service Creation ◽  
Prevention Through Design ◽  
After Effect

AbstractThis research investigates service creation in/after effect of coronavirus pandemic targeting the essential business environment. It follows prevention through design approach to facilitate business owners to maintain their business environments at low COVID contraction risks, for both customers and staff. The effectiveness of recommended prevention practices (like social distancing and hand-sanitising) is uncertain at public workplaces, simply due to inevitable workers and customers interactions. Such uncertainty, especially in cases of retail stores and hospitals, raises a need for the design of services and support systems for common/necessary public business activities to reduce the burden on people involved. This research investigates the risk-related metrics to realise such digital services, focussing on three types: congestion at the work environment, disinfection of store area/objects, and sanitisation of people and staffs involved. Based on this, a digital technology-based service COVSAFE was created and tested through a proof-of-concept implementation for a supermarket business environment. This implementation and its evaluations highlight the bottlenecks/challenges for realising this system in everyday scenarios.

scholarly journals Evaluating Disruptive Innovation Project Management Capabilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mikel Zubizarreta ◽  
Jaione Ganzarain ◽  
Jesús Cuadrado ◽  
Rafael Lizarralde
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Management Capabilities

Firms must adapt to a business environment in constant flux. Economic and political factors and the constant interruption of new technologies force firms and organizations to change and to adapt, so that they are not left behind. Over recent years, the development of disruptive innovations has completely revolutionized past scenarios. These innovations break with what is already established and firms from various sectors face no choice other than to incorporate them into their project management portfolios, so as to ensure survival and business sustainability. Using MIVES methodology as its foundation, a business sustainability management model is presented in this paper for the management of disruptive innovation projects that a firm may wish to develop within a given sector. The management model is designed to facilitate disruptive innovation project management for firms within technological-industrial sectors, by assessing the sustainability of the project. The model is applied to two firms, one from the machine-tooling sector and another from the construction sector. Finally, a sensitivity analysis was performed, the results of which verified the validity and the stability of the proposed model.

scholarly journals ATTITUDE OF SLOVAK SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES TOWARDS RISK MANAGEMENT – INVESTIGATION OF THE REGIONAL DIFFERENCES

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matej Masár ◽  
Mária Hudáková
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Employee Education ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Current Business

Contemporary trends highlight the need for education in each enterprise. The current business environment is characterized by many changes such as increased customer expectations and high levels of competitiveness in the environment. World trends, shows, that managers and owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perceived the need to take care of risk management in their enterprise. This issue has been analyzed and discussed for a long time. It is necessary to concentrate on this field mainly in the Slovak Republic. SMEs in Slovakia are very sensitive to changes in the environment. The aim of this paper is to investigate regional differences in the attitude of Slovak SMEs towards risk management, with special emphasis on the attitude towards significance of the education in the field of risk management based on empirical research, which was provided by authors in 2017. This paper will evaluate: the level of dependence between the selected Slovak regions and the created space for discussion about risks in SMEs, the level of dependence between selected Slovak regions and the created space for employee education in risk management in SMEs, and the level of dependence between selected Slovak regions and the required education possibilities in the field of risk management. It will use: association, the Pearson’s coefficient and the Tschuprov coefficient for evaluating the results. Overall results of the empirical research point towards the significance and importance of using risk management in SMEs. The results, shows, that there is a very large association between investigating dependence. Based on the results, it is necessary to improve the level of education in the field of risk management, which will be based on current entrepreneurial requirements.

scholarly journals The impact of innovations on the efficiency of animal husbandry in Lviv region

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (97) ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
K. Hirniak
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Process ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Livestock Industry ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Method Of Evaluation ◽  
The Impact

Domestic agricultural enterprises do not have a high level of innovation activity, however, stable and competitive operation of an agricultural enterprise is impossible without its innovative activity. Stabilization of the situation in the agricultural sector with the current level of competition and constant technological variables, the innovative vector of development is the driving component of economic growth. Activation of innovation of domestic agricultural enterprises is one of the important prerequisites for stability and sustainable socio-economic development of the country. Consequently, the effective functioning of the livestock industry is possible only under the conditions of systemic and purposeful innovation aimed at finding a variety of new opportunities provided by the business environment. The innovation process in domestic animal husbandry is clearly aimed at the end result - a certain socio-economic, technical or environmental effects. The efficiency of animal husbandry is determined after the introduction of innovation, calculated by the method of evaluation of investment projects. On the example of Lviv region we analyzed the conditions of innovative activity in animal husbandry, assessed the modern innovative potential of the industry, established the features of its innovation and investment activities. SWOT-analysis is an important component of assessing the position of livestock enterprises in the region. It should be recognized that the innovative activity of livestock enterprises is mainly associated with the final stage of the innovation process – the development of innovations. In 2020, farms of all categories of Lviv region compared to 2019 decreased meat production (sales for slaughter of farm animals in live weight) by 1.6 %, milk – by 4.7 %, eggs – by 0.3 %. cattle on farms of all categories on January 1, 2021 amounted to 144.4 thousand heads (including cows – 86.2 thousand heads), pigs – 346.1 thousand heads, poultry – 10.5 million. heads. Compared to January 1, 2020, the number of poultry increased by 5.7 %, pigs – by 4.1 %, the number of cattle decreased by 8.2 % (including cows – by 8.6 %). Innovative activity of the livestock industry is formed under the influence of the domestic innovation system and has its own specifics, which is caused by the peculiarities of agriculture. Most innovative projects are aimed at introducing innovations that contribute to the intensification of animal husbandry and increase the competitiveness of products. Thus, on the basis of innovative development of animal husbandry it is possible to achieve a significant increase in the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises, which will allow Ukrainian producers to achieve significant results in world markets for agricultural products.

3D Printing Technology Diffusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 478-502
Author(s):  
Kemal Yayla ◽  
Basak Ozdemir ◽  
Serhat Burmaoglu ◽  
Haydar Yalcin
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Patent Analysis ◽  
Printing Technology ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
3D Printing Technology ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Manufacturing

3D printing technology has been considered one of the most potentially groundbreaking technologies for the future, as the customer expectations, market requirements, and the competition grows in a global scale. In order to understand the potential effect of 3D printing technology and if it is a disruptive innovation that will change the traditional manufacturing paradigm, it is essential to examine the diffusion of knowledge in this area. In this study, 3D printing technology has been reviewed and patent analysis regarding 3D printing technology has been conducted in order to understand the diffusion of 3D printing technology. The results of the patent analysis indicate that the diffusion of 3D printing technology which is represented by the patents of four key methods not expected to fit with Bass diffusion model. According to the findings, it can be concluded that 3D printing technologies are in a situation where a state of maturity has not been reached, yet the growth still continues.

Open Innovation

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-75
Author(s):  
Hakikur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Business Model Innovation ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Operational Management

While talking about successful entrepreneurship and value addition within an enterprise through innovation, one could comprehend that the innovation paradigm has been shifted from simple introduction of new thoughts and products to accumulation of diversified actions, actors, and agents along the process. Furthermore, when the innovation process is not being constrained within the closed nature of it, the process takes many forms during its evolution. Innovations have been seen as closed innovation or open innovation, depending on its nature of action, but contemporary world may have seen many forms of innovation, such as technological innovation, products/service innovation, process/production innovation, operational/management/organizational innovation, business model innovation, or disruptive innovation, though often they are robustly interrelated.

Assessment of Production Capacity and Ability of Rapid Response to Changing Customer Expectations

2015 ◽  
Vol 809-810 ◽  
pp. 1378-1383
Author(s):  
Iwona Paprocka ◽  
Sonia Cyba
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Interarrival Time ◽  
Company Size ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
A Company ◽  
Operating Company

Companies must respond quickly to customer needs and ensure the desired quality and low price in order to remain competitive in a market. It becomes necessary to create new concepts of production systems that meet all requirements imposed by consumers. The increase of reliability of machines and equipment, staff competence and forecasting a size and subject of demand increase the ability to react quickly to changes in the business environment. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to estimate the agility characteristics of a company (size of demand, interarrival time of orders and reliability of machines) and to verify its production capacity and rapid response capabilities. The characteristics are estimated for three variants of the production system: self-operating company, companies operating in cooperation, company buying additional machine.

Organizational unlearning: time to expand our horizons?

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Becker
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Potential Factor ◽  
Potential Impact

Purpose Interest in the topic of unlearning has grown in recent years, fueled by rapid changes in the business environment and resultant organizational change. This change challenges individuals and organizations to unlearn past knowledge and practice to embrace new organizational realities. However, much of the unlearning literature focuses on either individual or organizational factors that enable or hinder unlearning. This paper aims to look beyond the organizational boundary to question whether there are tensions between professionals and the organizations in which they work that influence organizational unlearning. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper analyzing how professions are established to identify the implications for organizational unlearning. The critical elements of a profession are explored to identify the potential impact that professionals within the organization may have on organizational learning and unlearning. Findings The paper argues that to facilitate unlearning, organizations must recognize not only internal factors but also external pressures on individuals and groups. In particular, professions with a strong identity may represent a significant force that can either engender or resist attempts to learn and unlearn by the organization. Originality/value Within the existing unlearning literature, individual and organizational factors that facilitate or hinder unlearning have been widely canvased. However, little attention has been given to the factors beyond organizational boundaries that may also impact unlearning, particularly for individuals and groups with strong professional identities. This paper offers some unique insights into this potential factor for consideration by those seeking to enhance organizational unlearning.

scholarly journals Sensitivity of Importance Metrics for Critical Digital Services Graph to Service Operators’ Self-Assessment Errors

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Mariusz Kamola
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
The State ◽  
Network Vulnerability ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Estimation Errors ◽  
Aggregation Methods ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Good Analogy

Interdependency of critical digital services can be modeled in the form of a graph with exactly known structure but with edge weights subject to estimation errors. We use standard and custom centrality indexes to measure each service vulnerability. Vulnerability of all nodes in the graph gets aggregated in a number of ways into a single network vulnerability index for services whose operation is critical for the state. This study compares sensitivity of various centralities combined with various aggregation methods to errors in edge weights reported by service operators. We find that many of those combinations are quite robust and can be used interchangeably to reflect various perceptions of network vulnerability. We use graphs of source files’ dependencies for a number of open-source projects, as a good analogy for real critical services graph, which will remain confidential.

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