NGEBIS 2014 - The International Workshop on Next Generation Enterprise and Business Innovation Systems (NGEBIS)

Innovation is one of the key enablers for European enterprises to compete in global markets, especially in difficult economic periods.
An innovation process is different from a ‘usual’ business process we find in an enterprise that is normally well defined in its plans, activities, committed resources, etc. Innovation needs a creative behaviour to address ‘wicked problems’, i.e., problems difficult to solve because of incomplete, fuzzy, changing requirements.
The NGEBIS workshop intends to address the area of Innovation Management Systems that have that operate in a fuzzy and ill-defined problem space to be systematically tackled by using existing information systems and information engineering methods. NGEBIS 2014 intends to contribute to the development of methods to be used in the implementation of a new generation of information systems dedicated to business innovation, with particular attention to networked enterprises.
Format
The NGEBIS’14 Workshop will feature the following sections:
Presentation oriented section, with peer reviewed scientific papers, to be included in the official CAiSE Workshops proceedings (Published in one volume in the Springer LNBIP series)
Demo and Poster section, with (a) demos of new tools and systems, (b) posters. The D&P papers will be published as CEUR-WS e-Proceedings.
Knowledge Panel, that will freely discuss the 3 most hot topics that will emerge during a 2 months Online Forum. The outcome of the discussion will be published in the CEUR-WS e-Proceedings.
Online Workshop Forum, for online discussion that starts 2 months before the workshop, aiming at debating about the 3 hottest issue among NGEBIS topics that will be selected for the Knowledge Panel to be held on site.
Topics
The following is a suggested, but not exhaustive, list of topics of interest for papers to submit.
Business Model Innovation
Process innovation
Mixed process & product innovation
Collaborative Awareness Platforms for Innovation
Innovation lifecycle, value driven innovation
Open innovation and innovation communities
Creativity and Ideas management
Joint goods service innovation
Innovation in SMEs and business ecosystems
Distributed and networked innovation
Creating routes from ideas and research to solutions implementation and take-up
Design thinking for information systems innovation
Product and service innovation
Service design as a means of delivering innovation
Matchmaking of innovation needs and innovative solutions
Intellectual Property Rights in Open Innovation
Innovation by servitization: service bundling to goods
Assessing innovation
Key Performance Indicators in innovation
Scouting of technology innovation to be embedded in products, services, and production processes
Case studies and examples of innovation management and best practices