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  • Publication
    Intellectual Capital-Driven Technology and Innovation Management
    ( 2017)
    Galeitzke, M.
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    Steinhöfel, E.
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    Orth, R.
    ;
    Kohl, H.
    The significance of intangible resources with regard to business success in general has evidently increased. This paper aims to draw conclusions on a broad empirical basis with regard to internal drivers of innovation and related differences between manufacturing and service enterprises. Measures to improve the enterprises' innovation capability are studied on the basis of 38 intellectual capital statements. Furthermore, the data gained from a large scale survey among more than 1000 enterprises is analyzed with regard to product as well as process innovation. In subsequence, the results of both analyses are matched and compared.
  • Publication
    Integrated evaluation system for the strategic management of innovation initiatives in manufacturing industries
    ( 2016)
    Kohl, H.
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    Orth, R.
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    Riebartsch, O.
    ;
    Hecklau, F.
    The innovation capability of industrial organizations is an essential prerequisite to stay ahead of the global competition by adapting flexible to the rapidly changing customer requirements. However, the success of innovation initiatives is often at risk, due to short-sighted, unsystematic planning-, implementation- and evaluation activities. For this purpose an integrated evaluation approach has been developed by Fraunhofer IPK to manage the lifecycle of an innovation initiative in terms of implementation progress and operational performance in a sustainable way. The Evaluation System follows a multi-perspective approach that involves internal and external stakeholders by applying a combination of evaluation instruments including key performance indicators, self-assessment- and audit procedures as well as monitoring- and reporting tools. As a main output of the Evaluation System, specific improvement suggestions and action plans can be derived to react agile on potential challenges.
  • Publication
    Modulare Fertigungsmanagementsysteme für Kundenauftragsindividuellen Prozesse
    ( 2016)
    Knothe, T.
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    Orth, R.
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    Gering, P.
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    Wintrich, N.
    Kundenauftragsspezifische Prozesse sind heute bereits Realität, auch im klassischen Seriengeschäft. Zur digitalen Planung und Steuerung dieser hoch komplexen Prozesse werden zum Beispiel flexible miteinander verknüpfbare Komponentenlösungen, wie z.B. in der DIN SPEC 91345, vorgeschlagen. Gleichzeitig offenbart eine aktuelle Studie einen weiterhin großen Handlungsbedarf zum Prozessmanagement in den meisten deutschen Unternehmen. In diesem Beitrag wird eine modulare Architektur zum Aufbau und Verwaltung von Komponentenlösungen für Fertigungsmanagementfunktionen vorgeschlagen, die auf Basis von Modellfragmenten nutzerorientiert miteinander verknüpft und kundenauftragsspezifisch kombiniert werden können.
  • Publication
    A practical approach to process-oriented knowledge management
    ( 2015)
    Kohl, H.
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    Orth, R.
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    Steinhöfel, E.
    Due to global competition and increasingly dynamic markets, the importance of intangible resources such as knowledge has been growing dramatically, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). SMEs have to be more innovative, flexible, and efficient to successfully cope with typical challenges such as growing competition and rapidly changing demand patterns. In the past, knowledge management has been successfully implemented and developed by large enterprises in particular. In contrast, knowledge management for SME is not a matter of course yet. However, current survey results affirm that activities in the area of knowledge management depend less on the size of an enterprise or its industry, but rather on an enterprise's business strategy and core competencies. In the light of these results, SMEs seem not to have disadvantages regarding the implementation of knowledge management because of their size or industry, but rather because they need to take strategic decisions to implement such solutions and have difficulties in doing so. Against this background, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology started the initiative ldquoFit fur den Wissenswettbewerbrdquo to support especially SMEs on the way to the knowledge society. In the course of the initiative, the research institutes Fraunhofer IPK and Fraunhofer IFF initiated the project ldquoProWis - Prozessorientiertes und integriertes Wissensmanagement in KMUrdquo. Within this project, researchers designed methods meeting the specific needs of SMEs allowing the implementation of process-oriented knowledge management at reasonable efforts. Building up on the developed methods, both institutes accompanied 15 SMEs during the implementation of knowledge management and used the findings from these implementations to refine the methods. The results of the project are summarised in the guideline ldquoPraxisleitfaden Wissensmanagementrdquo, which is freely accessible to interested parties and enables SMEs to systematically and autonomously implement knowledge management. Based on the aforementioned results, this article illustrates the processoriented implementation of knowledge management according to the ProWis approach and, by means of a case study, leads the reader through the single steps of the implementation process towards a business process-oriented knowledge management.
  • Publication
    Strategic intellectual capital management as a driver of organisational innovation
    ( 2015)
    Galeitzke, M.
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    Steinhöfel, E.
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    Orth, R.
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    Kohl, H.
    The significance of intangible resources for business success has evidently increased. Analyses have indicated some intellectual capital factors as the most prominent and important, yet the impact on the intra- and inter-organisational innovation ecosystems has not been analysed thoroughly. This contribution seeks to close this gap and draw conclusions with regard to drivers of innovation and related differences between manufacturing and service enterprises. The analysis of the correlation between intellectual capital and innovation capabilities allows statements regarding those intellectual capital factors, onto which enterprises should focus to foster innovation. The qualitative content-related analysis of the 38 intellectual capital statements of German enterprises with regard to new and different types of innovation management methodologies allows the identification of existing gaps in intellectual capital management.
  • Publication
    Sustainable corporate development measured by intangible and tangible resources as well as targeted by safeguard subjects
    ( 2015)
    Orth, R.
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    Scheumann, R.
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    Galeitzke, M.
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    Wolf, K.
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    Kohl, H.
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    Finkbeiner, M.
    The needed shift towards sustainable development in existing business processes can be achieved through the combination of the capital based approach and the life cycle sustainability assessment. This contribution performs an analysis and selection of assessment tools and indicators regarding the resources used in organisational processes and the life cycle of the products or services to measure the potential impacts on the environment and society. The relevance of intangible capital to improve the organisational sustainability performance as well as the expansion of the traditional dimensions of sustainability with the target of the six safeguard subjects: human health, social justice, ecosystem quality, financial stability, resource availability and man-made environment are integrated into a conceptual framework. This approach allows the development and implementation of strategies towards sustainable corporate development through a recommendation-based framework.
  • Publication
    Support of innovation networks in manufacturing industries through identification of sustainable collaboration potential and best-practice transfer
    ( 2015)
    Kohl, H.
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    Orth, R.
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    Riebartsch, O.
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    Galeitzke, M.
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    Cap, J.-P.
    The increasing global competition within today's manufacturing industries is confronting organizations with interdisciplinary challenges that require intellectual expertise and innovative technological solutions in various knowledge areas. Research organizations and manufacturing companies can improve their overall performance by bundling expertise in collaborative innovation networks. For this purpose a systematic Benchmarking approach has been developed by Fraunhofer IPK to match the competencies and capacities within a pool of organizations in order to facilitate a sustainable cooperation in terms of resources, customers and R&D topics. Furthermore, a KPI-based identification of best performing network-partners allows an initiation of Best-Practice transfers to gain sustainable competitive advantages for the whole network. Based on a methodological approach, the identification of collaboration potentials and Best-Practices is supported by software tools that visualize the results in an understandable and applicable way.
  • Publication
    Fit für den Wissenswettbewerb - Wissensmanagement im Mittelstand
    ( 2010)
    Kohl, I.
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    Orth, R.
    Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) stehen vor der Herausforderung, mit überschaubaren Ressourcen sowohl auf externe als auch interne Anforderungen flexibel und schnell reagieren zu müssen. Durch ein effizientes Wissensmanagement lässt sich dieses Reaktionsvermögen verbessern. Für Vertreter von KMU liegt jedoch eine Schwierigkeit darin, Wissensmanagement im laufenden Tagesgeschäft so zu etablieren, dass es einen schnellen und spürbaren Mehrwert bringt. Das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie setzt genau hier mit einem umfangreichen Angebot für KMU an. Ziel ist es, die erfolgreiche Einführung von Wissensmanagement in KMU zu initiieren, zu begleiten und zu etablieren.
  • Publication
    Wissen - Prozesse - Management
    ( 2009)
    Kohl, I.
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    Orth, R.
  • Publication
    Intranet + Wiki = Wissensmanagement
    ( 2008)
    Orth, R.
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    Decker, C.