Großer Erfolg auf der International Conference on Information Systems
Creating Business Value through Fog-based Information Systems
Autoren: Yannick Heß, Maximilian Blume, Sebastian Lins, Ali Sunyaev
Beschreibung
Fog-based information systems (FBIS) offer local data processing services to organizations, promising reduced latency, bandwidth conservation, and real-time data processing. However, organizations remain uncertain about how to leverage FBIS’ capabilities to create value. Bridging technical-and application-driven research streams, we investigate how organizations can leverage FBIS to create business value. Employing a qualitative and inductive approach grounded in value creation literature, we synthesize insights from 59 articles, 13 expert interviews, and 29 real-world FBIS. We identify five infrastructure properties, five organizational fog capabilities, and seven business value targets. Most notably, we uncover four FBIS value creation mechanisms with eleven variants explaining how specific combinations of capabilities and properties lead to distinct value outcomes. Our study refines the current understanding of FBIS’ capabilities, resolves inconsistent views on achieving business value, and provides theoretical and practical guidance for value-oriented adoption of fog computing in organizational contexts.
Agents of Change: The Role of Healthcare Professionals in Digital Innovation
Autoren: Richard Guse, Philipp Danylak, Long Hoang Nguyen, Scott Thiebes, Sebastian Lins, Ali Sunyaev
Beschreibung: Digital innovation (DI) in healthcare organizations is typically conceptualized as a process initiated by management. However, the potential of frontline employees like healthcare professionals to drive DI remains overlooked. This study aims to uncover how healthcare organizations enable employee-driven DI and examines which contingency factors determine its successful initiation. By drawing on 16 semi-structured interviews with physicians, management, and IT staff in different hospitals in Central Europe and utilizing grounded theory techniques, we reveal that hospitals involve healthcare professionals in DI initiation via various initiation paths (i.e., structures, actions, or roles that explicitly support DI initiation). We uncover that the success of these initiation paths depends on various contingency factors, including organizational resources, team climate, and clear roles. Overall, this study contributes to DI research by clarifying mechanisms that lead to the successful initiation of DI in healthcare organizations.