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Jan Marco Leimeister
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Prof. Dr.
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Leimeister
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Jan Marco
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janmarco.leimeister@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 3330
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PublicationCommunity engineering for innovations: the ideas competition as a method to nurture a virtual community for innovations‘Crowdsourcing’ is currently one of the most discussed key words within the open innovation community. The major question for both research and business is how to find and lever the enormous potential of the ‘collective brain’ to broaden the scope of ‘open R&D’. Based on a literature review in the fields of Community Building and Innovation Management, this work develops an integrated framework called ‘Community Engineering for Innovations’. This framework is evaluated in an Action Research project – the case of an ideas competition for an ERP Software company. The case ‘SAPiens’ includes the design, implementation and evaluation of an IT-supported ideas competition within the SAP University Competence Center (UCC) User Group. This group consists of approximately 60,000 people (lecturers and students) using SAP Software for educational purposes. The current challenges are twofold: on the one hand, there is not much activity yet in this community. On the other, SAP has not attempted to systematically address this highly educated group for idea generation or innovation development so far. Therefore, the objective of this research is to develop a framework for a community-based innovation development that generates innovations, process and product ideas in general and for SAP Research, in particular, combining the concepts of idea competitions and virtual communities. Furthermore, the concept aims at providing an interface to SAP Human Resources processes in order to identify the most promising students in this virtual community. This paper is the first to present an integrated concept for IT-supported idea competitions in virtual communities for leveraging the potential of crowds that is evaluated in a real-world setting.Type: journal articleJournal: R & D ManagementVolume: 39Issue: 4
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PublicationEvaluation of a systematic design for a virtual patient communityVirtual Communities (VCs) offer ubiquitous access to information and exchange possibilities for people in similar situations, which is especially valuable for patients with chronic / life-threatening diseases. However, it is seldom considered possible to create VCs systematically. This article describes the evaluation of the design elements and factors that contributed to the success of the VC krebsgemeinschaft.de (a VC for cancer patients in the German-speaking internet), by assessing user acceptance and usage. Additionally, the existence of trust (a constituent element of working VCs) in krebsgemeinschaft.de is addressed. Based on these criteria, we empirically verify the chosen design components and generate insights into the systematic development and operation of VCs in general and VCs for patients in the German healthcare system in particular.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC)Volume: 10Issue: 4
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PublicationThe role of virtual communities for the social network of cancer patients(Association for Information Systems, 2006-08-04)
;Schweizer, Karin J.Krcmar, HelmutType: conference paper -
PublicationAcceptance and Utility of a Systematically Designed Virtual Community for Cancer PatientsVirtual Communities (VCs) offer ubiquitous access to information and exchange possibilities for people in similar circumstances. This is especially valuable for patients with chronic / life-threatening diseases as they exhibit strong needs for information and interaction. Grounded on the preceding findings of the analysis on the user-centric construction of the VC krebsgemeinschaft.de, this article describes the evaluation of the underlying design elements and success factors by assessing the user's acceptance and usage of the site. The results obtained empirically substantiated insights into the systematic development and operation of VCs in general and for a subgroup of cancer patients in the German healthcare system in particular.Type: conference paper
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PublicationRevisiting the Virtual Community Business Model( 2004-08)Krcmar, HelmutType: conference paper
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PublicationErfolgsfaktoren virtueller Gemeinschaften aus Sicht von Mitgliedern und Betreibern(Physica-Verl., 2003-09-17)
;Sidiras, Pascal ;Krcmar, Helmut ;Uhr, Wolfgang ;Esswein, WernerSchoop, EricType: conference paperVolume: Bd. 2 -
PublicationGeschäftsmodell Virtual Community: Eine Analyse bestehender Communities(Eul, 2002-09-26)
;Bantleon, Andrea ;Krcmar, Helmut ;Engelien, MartinHomann, JensType: conference paper -