UNIVERSITY OF KOBLENZ
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Projects
Running Projekte
2C-NOW²: Hybrid Workgroups and Workspaces (DFG)
2C-NOW2 builds on the concepts, methods, and findings achieved in 2C-NOW Phase One to extend our existing trace analytics work by developing novel methods for conducting trace ethnographies and analysing rich contextual data from workplace studies. Together, these methods are used to provide empirical evidence and insights into how new arrangements for hybrid work are transforming working worlds and to enable rich contextual analyses of hybrid workgroups and emerging coordinative practices.
2C-NOW Collaboration and Coordination in Networks of Work (DFG)
This project investigates transformations to work processes and practices in large-scale, heterogeneous enterprise collaboration platforms in order to obtain a deeper theoretical and practical understanding of how collaborative work takes place within the digital workplace.
BECS-3 Cross-Level/cross-System choreography of collaborative work processes (DFG)
In the BECS-3 we extend the scale and scope of the BECS research programme to examine digital work processes in greater depth. In combination with the research being conducted in the 2C-NOW and Social Process Mining projects, we extend our research to analyse the cross-level, cross-system orchestration of collaboration work processes in order to identify how work is orchestrated across a complex, heterogenous enterprise collaboration platform.
IndustryConnect
IndustryConnect is a practice-based research community undertaking research in the areas of digital transformation and the digital workplace.
Launched in early 2015 IndustryConnect is an initiative of CEIR (Center for Enterprise Information Systems Research) a cooperation project between the Enterprise Information Management Research Group (FGEIM) and the Business Software Research Group (FGBAS).
University Competence Center for Collaboration technologies (UCT) powered by HCL
The purpose of this project is the establishment and the operation of a competence center for educational institutions. Its aim is the identification of a broad spectrum of established, as well as alternative technologies in the field of collaborative work. Further goals are the target-group-specific review of the existing knowledge of collaborative technologies. The learning-platform is complemented by international research projects in the fields of collaborative technologies.
Finished Projects
BECS (Phase 2): Capturing and Measuring Digital Transformation Capabilities
BECS-2 builds on and extends the work completed in the original project (BECS-1). The project examines the transformative characteristics of ECS. Through the collection of research data in the form of case studies, surveys, interviews, and logfile data from 29 ECS using organisations, and provides the first large-scale, comprehensive, empirical study on the role of ECS in the digital transformation of organisations.
BECS (Phase 1): A Sociotechnical Framework for ECS Benefits Realisation (DFG)
Digitisation and the transition to the Digital Workplace are driving profound change in organisations. Enterprise Collaboration Systems (ECS) that provide large-scale, integrated and socially-enabled collaboration platforms have emerged as a fundamental component of the Digital Workplace. The benefits of ECS and methods for the identification, measurement and realisation of ECS benefits were the subject of investigation in the first phase of this project
The project "Developing an Information Capability" is a joint project of the University of Koblenz (Prof. Williams) and the University of Sydney (Hardy, Ph.D.). The aim is to investigate and understand the problems and challenges in the area of enterprise information management by means of surveys and case studies. It is to be examined how companies can achieve effective information management.
The project Hackathon Handwerk aims to assist skilled craftsmen in assessing the value of IoT to their business and developing the skills and capability to deploy IoT appropriately. This project is jointly organised by the Enterprise of Things Lab at the University of Koblenz (EIM research group) and the Handwerkskammer Koblenz and builds on the previous joint project Digitales Handwerk.
In cooperation with HUEBINET Informationsmanagement and the Handwerkskammer Koblenz, the project “Mittelstand 4.0 - Digitales Handwerk“ was initiated to train skilled craftsperson in the area of Enterprise of Things (EoT) and introduce them to key use cases and scenarios that can be embedded in, enhance, or substitute their existing business processes to deliver new or improved business products and services.
The EU project Passport to Trade 2.0 was initiated by the University of Salford, UK. The aim of this project was to create an internet platform, on which small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well students can inform themselves about foreign European countries.
This interdisciplinary study is being conducted with colleagues from the Sydney University Business School. The aim of the project is to deepen understanding of the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital transformation through an interdisciplinary examination of matters of scale, scaling and cross-scale dynamics in IoT information infrastructures. The IoT is widely acknowledged as a key driver in transforming business and society. Yet to date limited attention has been directed towards socio-technical change issues and considerable uncertainty remains about the scale, nature, timing and impact of the associated digital transformations.
Social media risk has gained a lot of attention in recent years. This study investigates the governance of social media risk and risk assessment. The first phase of the work (conducted between December 2014 and July 2015) examines risk governance and the readiness of executive board members/risk committees for managing emerging social media risks. Our objectives are to gain an understanding of: - the significance of social media risks from different stakeholder groups - experiences of social media risks, organizationally and individually (eg. attitudes, meanings, importance) - how social media risks are being governed in organisations The outcomes of the work will provide both theoretical and practical guidance towards social media risk governance in the form of risk classifications and risk profiles, and risk governance strategies.
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