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Will chatbots play a significant role for B2B marketingin the future? Chatbots in B2B businesses
(2022)
Digitalization has gained a foothold in our everyday lives. However, it remains to be seen what digital tools B2B companies can benefit from. During the last few years, chatbots have been on the rise and have played a more significant role in B2B marketing. Thus, this research follows a literature review to examine the current state of B2B chatbots. With this, the study will discover the buyer’s preferences for chatbots compared to sales agents and the role of chatbots in different stages of the B2B sales funnel.
Gamification erfährt seit Jahren zunehmende Aufmerksamkeit in Wissenschaft und Praxis. Eine 2019 veröffentliche Metaanalyse zur Gamification-Forschung zeigt, dass der Fokus bislang auf den Bereichen Bildung und Gesundheit lag. Mit verbreiteter Anwendung steigt allerdings der Bedarf, die Forschung auf weitere Felder auszuweiten. Dieser Beitrag ergründet die Potenziale von Gamification im B-to-B-Vertrieb. Eine Betrachtung an dieser Stelle eignet sich aus den folgenden Gründen: Gamification wird vor allem für diejenigen Felder als attraktiv bezeichnet, wo Aktivitäten komplex und vielfältig sind und Fortschritt nur schwer nachzuvollziehen ist. Darüber hinaus unterstützt Gamification in der Erzielung nachhaltiger Ergebnisse mit Kontinuität und langfristigem Engagement.
Turning students into Industry 4.0 entrepreneurs: design and evaluation of a tailored study program
(2022)
Startups in the field of Industry 4.0 could be a huge driver of innovation for many industry sectors such as manufacturing. However, there is a lack of education programs to ensure a sufficient number of well-trained founders and thus a supply of such startups. Therefore, this study presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a university course tailored to the characteristics of Industry 4.0 entrepreneurship. Educational design-based research was applied with a focus on content and teaching concept. The study program was first implemented in 2021 at a German university of applied sciences with 25 students, of which 22 participated in the evaluation. The evaluation of the study program was conducted with a pretest–posttest-design targeting three areas: (1) knowledge about the application domain, (2) entrepreneurial intention and (3) psychological characteristics. The entrepreneurial intention was measured based on the theory of planned behavior. For measuring psychological characteristics, personality traits associated with entrepreneurship were used. Considering the study context and the limited external validity of the study, the following can be identified in particular: The results show that a university course can improve participants' knowledge of this particular area. In addition, perceived behavioral control of starting an Industry 4.0 startup was enhanced. However, the results showed no significant effects on psychological characteristics.
To generate greater value faster from digital innovation, many companies are increasing how much they learn from their own innovation efforts. However, in many companies, these changes are limited to one stakeholder group: innovation teams. Two other stakeholder groups, senior executives and experts from corporate functions, also need to learn from digital innovation initiatives. We have defined three learning imperatives that address a company’s needs to learn continually about building (1) a successful innovation, (2) a portfolio of initiatives that realizes strategic objectives faster, and (3) shared resources that propel multiple initiatives. All three imperatives involve collecting data regularly from digital innovation initiatives. In this research briefing we outline the three learning imperatives and provide examples of how companies are pursuing them to achieve strategic objectives more effectively and efficiently.
Von den Covid-19-Restriktionen wurden im Automobilsektor die Zulieferer wesentlich stärker getroffen als die Fahrzeughersteller. Vor allem die Entwicklung des Working Capitals im ersten Pandemie-Jahr erwies sich als kritisch. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über mögliche Lösungen für eine allseits vorteilhaftere, stabile Supply-Chain-Finanzierung in künftigen Krisen.
This research briefing describes the organizational capability of scaling at scale, which we define as enabling multiple digital innovation initiatives to realize bottom-line value from their innovation by leveraging shared resources. We illustrate this concept with a case study from global multi-energy company Repsol, which implemented scaling at scale to cultivate a portfolio of more than 450 initiatives and helped over seventy percent of initiatives to reach the scale-up stage. As a result, over five years Repsol realized €800 million of bottom-line value from digital innovations.
Die Liebherr Hydraulikbagger GmbH setzt sich aktiv mit der Implementierung von Risikomanagementsystemen auseinander und treibt so das risikoorientierte Prozessmanagement weiter voran. Dabei gilt es vor allem, Prozesse auf Risiko-Anfälligkeiten und ihre Relevanz für den Unternehmenserfolg zu analysieren.
Since half a decade, there has been an increasing interest in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) by business firms. However, academic literature has been lacking attention to RPA, before adopting the topic to a larger extent. The aim of this study is to review and structure the latest state of scholarly research on RPA. This chapter is based on a systematic literature review that is used as a basis to develop a conceptual framework to structure the field. Our study shows that some areas of RPA have been extensively examined by many authors, e.g. potential benefits of RPA. Other categories, such as empirical studies on adoption of RPA or organisational readiness models, have remained research gaps.
Der vorliegende Beitrag schlägt auf Basis der Erfahrungen in der Augenheilkunde mit der SARS-CoV-2-Pandemie in den Jahren 2020 und 2021 einen Leitfaden für den Umgang mit (zukünftigen) Pandemien vor.
Die Kernpunkte:
• Das weltweite Epidemie-Geschehen sollte stets beobachtet werden.
• Deutet sich eine Pandemie an, sollte im ersten Schritt ein Krisenstab eingerichtet werden, der die Pandemielage bewertet und Maßnahmen koordinieren kann.
• Die zu ergreifenden Maßnahmen einer augenheilkundlichen Einrichtung betreffen vor allem die Sicherstellung der Versorgungssituation sowie organisatorische und wirtschaftliche Bereiche, um eine tragfähige Fortführung des Betriebs zu ermöglichen.