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ValueApping: An Analysis Method to Identify Value-Adding Mobile Enterprise Apps in Business Processes

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Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2014)

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Mobile enterprise apps provide novel possibilities for the optimization and redesign of business processes, e.g., by the elimination of paper-based data acquisitioning or ubiquitous access to up-to-date information. To leverage these business potentials, a critical success factor is the identification and evaluation of value-adding MEAs based on an analysis of the business process. For this purpose, we present ValueApping, a systematic analysis method to identify usage scenarios for value-adding mobile enterprise apps in business processes and to analyze their business benefits. We describe the different analysis steps and corresponding analysis artifacts of ValueApping and discuss the results of a case-oriented evaluation in the automotive industry.

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The authors would like to thank the German Research Foundation (DFG) for financial support of this project as part of the Graduate School of Excellence advanced Manufacturing Engineering (GSaME) at the University of Stuttgart.

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    Eva Hoos, Christoph Gröger & Bernhard Mitschang

  2. Daimler AG, 71034, Böblingen, Germany

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Hoos, E., Gröger, C., Kramer, S., Mitschang, B. (2015). ValueApping: An Analysis Method to Identify Value-Adding Mobile Enterprise Apps in Business Processes. In: Cordeiro, J., Hammoudi, S., Maciaszek, L., Camp, O., Filipe, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 227. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22348-3_13

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