Controlling

Why are we concerned with ecosystems at all? Better understanding the complex economic relationships is central for companies in a rapidly changing environment. Generating growth or safeguarding the core business from is the value of such systems....

This case study presents an analysis of the development process behind a business-to-business (B2B) ecosystem, focusing on sustainable living, orchestrated by the Swiss company myky. During this process, nine pivotal lessons have been identified....

The increasing digitization of the business world leads to the fact that economic value is created less and less by one company alone, but rather through the sharing and joint use of data in so-called data ecosystems. This article provides an...

Value creation is increasingly taking place in networks with other players. Business ecosystems are a specific form of this, which in turn have further variations. We delineate the variants using the Value Blueprint and develop initial indications...

Medium-term planning is an often used tool in german companies to translate strategic goals into concrete budgets and measures. However, little research about the tool has been done so far. This article therefore deals with identifiable practical...

New user-friendly analytics solutions such as SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) provide access to statistical forecasting models to a wide audience. However, the question arises as to how well these models perform compared to self-developed forecasts. In...

Many Business Ecosystems are not competitive in the long term due to inadequate governance. Legal contract design plays a crucial role in establishing governance. The FIR at RWTH Aachen University has developed a support tool that presents...

In the past, BASF relied on a manual process to create local liquidity plans. Treasury has identified potential for improvement. Algorithms and models from artificial intelligence opened up new possibilities for extracting valuable information from...

This article proposes a process model for estimating the effort required for managed cloud services. In essence, the technical configuration and the service design of a customer is compared with the recommended reference configuration of the...