Abstract:Collaboration increasingly takes place in virtual communities using the Internet. These communities are socio-technical systems that tend to evolve strongly and become more complex over time. To ensure that changes to these complex socio-technical systems are meaningful and acceptable to the community as a whole, the relevant members of the community need to be involved in their specification. The RENISYS method conceptualizes community specification processes as conversations for specification by relevant mem… Show more
“…In an ever more Internet-based society and with the advent of the powerful Web and of the more user-friendly applications (Moor & Weigand, 2007), the new communication platforms are capable of creating multiple and different channels. They can also improve the channels among customers and this will affect the various decisions on the manager side.…”
Section: Social Network and Virtual Communitiesmentioning
Purpose -The introduction and growth of the Internet and modern technology has had a strong impact on the structures of companies and led to a change in the decisional processes. In the new economic scenarios, with the growth of social networks and Web 3.0, technologies go through developments and transformations that are of vital importance to ensure the competitiveness of companies.Methodology -The study analyzes the possibility of applying social networks to the new business models, underlining their importance not only with regard to managers but also, and especially, to crowdsourcing processes.Implications -The objective of the study is to focus on the impact that web 3.0 and social networks have on management and marketing decisions, underlining certain processes in order to improve the competitive advantages of companies.
“…In an ever more Internet-based society and with the advent of the powerful Web and of the more user-friendly applications (Moor & Weigand, 2007), the new communication platforms are capable of creating multiple and different channels. They can also improve the channels among customers and this will affect the various decisions on the manager side.…”
Section: Social Network and Virtual Communitiesmentioning
Purpose -The introduction and growth of the Internet and modern technology has had a strong impact on the structures of companies and led to a change in the decisional processes. In the new economic scenarios, with the growth of social networks and Web 3.0, technologies go through developments and transformations that are of vital importance to ensure the competitiveness of companies.Methodology -The study analyzes the possibility of applying social networks to the new business models, underlining their importance not only with regard to managers but also, and especially, to crowdsourcing processes.Implications -The objective of the study is to focus on the impact that web 3.0 and social networks have on management and marketing decisions, underlining certain processes in order to improve the competitive advantages of companies.
“…It is well known that in a contemporary manufacturing system, effective human communication is vital, not only for its operation, but also for its design and any further developments and changes [11]. New communication channels are described in detail in [12], giving attention to human operator and remote cell.…”
Section: User Interface For Distributed and Remote Labmentioning
Conversations are the lifeblood of collaborative communities. Social media like microblogging tool Twitter have great potential for supporting these conversations. However, just studying the role of these media from a tool perspective is not sufficient. To fully unlock their power, they need to examined from a sociotechnical perspective. We introduce a socio-technical context framework which can be used to analyze the role of systems of tools supporting goal-oriented conversations. Central to this framework is the communicative workflow loop, which is grounded in the Language/Action Perspective. We show how socio-technical conversation contexts can be used to match the communicative requirements of collaborative communities with enabling tool functionalities. This social media systems design process is illustrated with a case on Twitter.
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