Managing Development and Application of Digital Technologies : Research Insights in the Munich Center for Digital Technology & Management (CDTM)

Digital technology determines today’s world and will be one of the key technologies of the future. Successful technology development, introduction and management are not only a question of technical issues; due to their complexity a close cooperation between different scientific disciplines is required to discuss various consequences, chances and risks from manifold points of view as a starting point for the design of adequate solutions. The ability to integrate business and technology decisions will become a crucial core competence. The aim of this volume is to highlight a selection of important current research topics in the field of digital technology and management, illustrating the variety of aspects which have to be considered in the development and application of digital technologies. Main topics of this book are the design of the innovation process, digital rights management, mobile, location-based and ubiquitous services, IT service management and future communication networks. Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Innovation in Engineering Software Intensive Systems....Pages 3-15 Outsourcing Innovation in Digital Service Creation: What Software Engineering Can Learn from Modern Product Development....Pages 17-37 Motives and Perception of Fairness in Commercial User Communities....Pages 39-55 Engaging Students in Distributed Software Engineering Courses....Pages 57-68 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 Digital Rights Management and Software Innovation....Pages 71-86 Open Standards — a Cure for Digital Rights Management?....Pages 87-106 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 IT Service Management: Getting the View....Pages 109-130 When Infrastructure Management Just Won’t Do: The Trend Towards Organizational IT Service Management....Pages 131-146 IT Service Management Across Organizational Boundaries....Pages 147-175 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Trends in Telecommunication Networking....Pages 179-193 Ethernet in the Backbone: An Approach to Cost-efficient Core Networks....Pages 195-209 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 A Generic User Innovation Toolkit Architecture for Mobile Service Creation....Pages 213-237 Integrating Users in Discontinuous Innovation Processes: Findings from a Study of Mobile Download Games....Pages 239-253 Distributed Collaboration: Services and Information Sources in a Knowledge-based Architecture....Pages 255-273 Front Matter....Pages 275-275 Business Potentials of Ubiquitous Computing....Pages 277-291 A Novel Approach to Ubiquitous Location-Based Service Architectures Using Mobile Communities....Pages 293-324 Context-sensitive Content Provision for Classified Directories....Pages 325-336

Digital technology determines today’s world and will be one of the key technologies of the future. Successful technology development, introduction and management are not only a question of technical issues; due to their complexity a close cooperation between different scientific disciplines is required to discuss various consequences, chances and risks from manifold points of view as a starting point for the design of adequate solutions. The ability to integrate business and technology decisions will become a crucial core competence.

The aim of this volume is to highlight a selection of important current research topics in the field of digital technology and management, illustrating the variety of aspects which have to be considered in the development and application of digital technologies.

Main topics of this book are the design of the innovation process, digital rights management, mobile, location-based and ubiquitous services, IT service management and future communication networks.

The aim of this volume is to highlight a selection of important current research topics in the field of digital technology and management, illustrating the variety of aspects which have to be considered in the development and application of digital technologies. Topics covered in the book include the design of the innovation process, digital rights management, mobile, location-based and ubiquitous services, IT service management and future communication networks.