Publications related to Challenges Laying Ahead for Future Digital Enterprises: A Research Perspective

The Lean Startup Framework: Closing the Academic-Practitioner Divide

The lean startup framework is one of the most popular contributions in the practitioner-oriented entrepreneurship literature. This study seeks to generate new insights into how new ventures are started by describing the five main building blocks of the lea ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2020

Data Structures and Algorithms for Logic Synthesis in Advanced Technologies

Eleonora Testa

Logic synthesis is a key component of digital design and modern EDA tools; it is thus an essential instrument for the design of leading-edge chips and to push the limits of their performance. In the last decades, the electronic circuits community has evolv ...

EPFL2020

The Industrialization of Astronomical Instrumentation: An Industrial Systems and Process Engineering Perspective

Mohamed Bouri, Luzius Gregor Kronig, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Loïc Grossen, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of > 6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of superma ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Integration of Wearable Sensors Into the Evaluation of Running Economy and Foot Mechanics in Elite Runners

Benoît Mariani, Mathieu Pascal Falbriard

Running economy, known as the steady-state oxygen consumption at a given submaximal intensity, has been proposed as one of the key factors differentiating East African runners from other running communities around the world. Kenyan runners have dominated m ...

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS2018

Digital Information Asset Evaluation: A Case Study in Manufacturing

Gianluigi Viscusi

The article discusses a model for information value assessment based on the concepts of information capacity, information utility, and information management costs. Notwithstanding that both state-of-the-art researchers and practitioners consider informati ...

2018

Beyond Activities: Business Process Models from a Knowledge Management Perspective

Gil Regev

When conducting workshops with business people, there is a significant risk to become bogged down in the details of the underlying business process rather than seeing the big picture of the value provided by the process to its stakeholders. In this paper, ...

2017

What Have We Unlearned Since the Early Days of the Process Movement?

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

The vision brought forth by Michael Hammer in the late 1980s was to save struggling American companies by getting them to focus on the creation of value for clients by reorganizing their operations and structure around the use of IT systems. This was the B ...

Springer2016

Current trends on ICT technologies for enterprise information systems

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Soumaya El Kadiri

As business conditions change rapidly, the need for integrating business and technical systems calls for novel ICT frameworks and solutions to remain concurrent in highly competitive markets. A number of problems and issues arise in this regard. In this pa ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Digital business innovation: roadmaps and attitudes from a FutureEnterprise perspective

Gianluigi Viscusi

The paper investigates the potential axes and dimensions of roadmaps for digital business innovation for entrepreneurs as well as enterprises. Actually, digital business innovation requires a change of perspective with regard to IT governance and managemen ...

2015

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

Dario Floreano

We are witnessing the advent of a new era of robots — drones — that can autonomously fly in natural and man-made environments. These robots, often associated with defence applications, could have a major impact on civilian tasks, including transportation, ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Value Map - An Innovative Tool for Business Model Innovation

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam, Aarthi Gopal

In this paper, we present a modeling framework called “Value Map”. Value Map assists in conceptualization, representation and analysis of value creation and capture processes with the objective of innovating a firm’s business model. We illustrate the appli ...

ISPIM2014

From Business Services to IT Services by Capturing Design Decisions

Claude Petitpierre, Alain Wegmann, Biljana Bajic-Bizumic

The main goals of any service-oriented design include flexible support and adaptability of business services and improved business-IT alignment. The existing approaches, however, have failed to fully meet these goals. One of the major reasons for this defi ...

2012

Technology In-Sourcing and the Creation of Pioneering Technologies

Vareska van de Vrande

This study analyzes the effect of different external technology sourcing modes on the creation of radical innovation in companies. Moreover, since prior research has indicated that exploration consists of looking beyond both organizational and technologica ...

2011

Using Declarative Specifications in Business Process Design

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Irina Rychkova

Business process modeling techniques, such as BPMN, encourage the early specification of the exact order in which the activities of the process will be executed. However, a business process may be exposed to different environments and subjected to many con ...

2008

High-Level Design and Analysis of Business Processes. The Advantages of Declarative Specifications

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Irina Rychkova

Business process modeling techniques, such as BPMN, encourage the early specification of the exact order in which the activities of the process will be executed. However, a business process may be exposed to different environments and subjected to many con ...

2008

High-level design and analysis of business processes the advantages of declarative specifications

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Irina Rychkova

Business process modeling techniques, such as BPMN, encourage the early specification of the exact order in which the activities of the process will be executed. However, a business process may be exposed to different environments and subjected to many con ...

2008

Business Process Flexibility through the Exploration of Stimuli

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Kuldeep Kumar

For organizations to survive and flourish in a changing environment, their business processes need to be flexible. Ashby’s law of requisite variety applied to business processes postulates that a robust process needs to exhibit as much variety in its respo ...

2008

e-Innovation and financial services

Yang Yang

The Internet, a classic Schumpeterian innovation, has profoundly altered our lives and influenced the ways we do business. It is now widely accepted by policy makers, scholars, and enterprises that the Internet and related information technologies are the ...

EPFL2008

Formal semantics for refinement verification of entreprise models

Irina Rychkova

In this dissertation we investigate how Business/IT alignment in enterprise models can be enhanced by using a software engineering stepwise refinement paradigm. To have an IT system that supports an enterprise and meets the enterprise business needs, manag ...

EPFL2008

Modelling the regulative role of business processes with use and misuse cases

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Business processes contain value-added and abuse prevention activities. Most modelling techniques do not provide a rationale for abuse prevention activities. Such a rationale is needed when redesigning business processes. In this paper we propose to consid ...

2005