Special Section: The Transformative Value of Cloud Computing: A Decoupling, Platformization, and Recombination Theoretical Framework

Benlian, Alexander; Kettinger, William J.; Sunyaev, Ali; Winkler, Till J.

doi:10.1080/07421222.2018.1481634

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“…For both topics, we provide suggestions that guide future research (eg, to focus on developing CCSs that enable collaboration in health care) or even create new opportunities and directions (eg, to focus on inherently increased, instead of decreased, IT security in health care by using CC). In addition, we noticed that research topics on CC are by nature broad and diverse, which should not be limited to the development of CC applications and IT security, as in current health care settings, but can include more areas such as its business perspective [ 61 , 62 ], its adoption (by organizations) [ 63 , 64 ], user awareness and acceptance [ 65 , 66 ], and its certification [ 67 - 69 ]. The proposed research directions in this study are a step toward facilitating research on CC in health care settings.…”

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Rethinking the Meaning of Cloud Computing for Health Care: A Taxonomic Perspective and Future Research Directions

Gao¹,

Thiebes²,

Sunyaev³

2018

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundCloud computing is an innovative paradigm that provides users with on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources such as servers, storage, and applications. Researchers claim that information technology (IT) services delivered via the cloud computing paradigm (ie, cloud computing services) provide major benefits for health care. However, due to a mismatch between our conceptual understanding of cloud computing for health care and the actual phenomenon in practice, the meaningful use of it for the health care industry cannot always be ensured. Although some studies have tried to conceptualize cloud computing or interpret this phenomenon for health care settings, they have mainly relied on its interpretation in a common context or have been heavily based on a general understanding of traditional health IT artifacts, leading to an insufficient or unspecific conceptual understanding of cloud computing for health care.ObjectiveWe aim to generate insights into the concept of cloud computing for health IT research. We propose a taxonomy that can serve as a fundamental mechanism for organizing knowledge about cloud computing services in health care organizations to gain a deepened, specific understanding of cloud computing in health care. With the taxonomy, we focus on conceptualizing the relevant properties of cloud computing for service delivery to health care organizations and highlighting their specific meanings for health care.MethodsWe employed a 2-stage approach in developing a taxonomy of cloud computing services for health care organizations. We conducted a structured literature review and 24 semistructured expert interviews in stage 1, drawing on data from theory and practice. In stage 2, we applied a systematic approach and relied on data from stage 1 to develop and evaluate the taxonomy using 14 iterations.ResultsOur taxonomy is composed of 8 dimensions and 28 characteristics that are relevant for cloud computing services in health care organizations. By applying the taxonomy to classify existing cloud computing services identified from the literature and expert interviews, which also serves as a part of the taxonomy, we identified 7 specificities of cloud computing in health care. These specificities challenge what we have learned about cloud computing in general contexts or in traditional health IT from the previous literature. The summarized specificities suggest research opportunities and exemplary research questions for future health IT research on cloud computing.ConclusionsBy relying on perspectives from a taxonomy for cloud computing services for health care organizations, this study provides a solid conceptual cornerstone for cloud computing in health care. Moreover, the identified specificities of cloud computing and the related future research opportunities will serve as a valuable roadmap to facilitate more research into cloud computing in health care.

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Rethinking the Meaning of Cloud Computing for Health Care: A Taxonomic Perspective and Future Research Directions

Gao¹,

Thiebes²,

Sunyaev³

2018

J Med Internet Res

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“…We investigated both in-house and cloudcomputing services (CCSs) because an increasing number of healthcare organizations (up to 82%) now outsource to complement and improve their in-house IT [16], and CC is becoming their preferred form of outsourcing [17]. Further, many current CCS offerings in healthcare support some degree of collaboration [18,23]. Including CC could increase the comprehensiveness of our findings.…”

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Multi-Organizational Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration Systems: An Exploratory Research Study of Design Concerns in Healthcare

Gao¹,

Briggs²,

Thiebes³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Much Collaboration Engineering research focuses on collaboration systems for teams of five to fifty members. That research can also inform large-scale multi-organizational multi-stakeholder (MO-MS) collaborations such as disaster relief, joint ventures, and healthcare. These larger contexts, though, present design concerns beyond those for smaller teams, and not all these concerns are self-evident. This paper explores the design concerns for IT-supported MOMS collaboration. We selected the healthcare industry as the first exemplar domain for this inquiry mainly because research shows high potential benefits from, and substantial challenges to implementing systems for collaborative healthcare. We draw on an extensive literature review, and 50 semi-structured interviews with experts to discover and validate collaboration challenges presented by in-house and cloud-based IT services for healthcare. We derive an eleven-class typology of design concerns related to MOMS collaboration, and derive requirements-elicitation design questions for each class. To demonstrate its utility, we draw on exploratory findings to elaborate the generalizable typology with design probes specific to healthcare collaboration systems.

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“…Capturing the increasing orientation towards platform thinking in practice, terms, such as "platform coring" [12,25] and "platformization", have emerged in the IS literature to describe the commercial transformation from products to (multi-sided) platforms [3,6] or the establishment of large-scale platform architectures to spur innovation within as well as across organizations [5,28]. According to Benlian et al [3, p.724], platformization "builds on decoupling and characterizes the process in which an entity (a provider organization) creates access and interaction opportunities centered around a core bundle of services (the platform) within an ecosystem of consumers, complementors, and other stakeholders".…”

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Platformization and Internationalization in the LEGO Group

Törmer¹,

Henningsson²

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Internationalization, to expand a firms territorial footprint, is an important but difficult strategic act for a growing business. Simultaneously, digital technologies are increasingly shaping businesses worldwide and by implication also their internationalization activities as well as strategies. Using experiences from the LEGO Group, the toymanufacturer well-known for its iconic modular bricks concept, we explain how the transformation of the Information Systems (IS) landscape towards a platform architecture is a key enabler for internationalization. Platformization of the IS landscape contributes to mitigate the issues of psychic distance that needs to be overcome when expanding internationally. Based on the insights gained from the LEGO Group, we provide lessons learned for CIO's when enabling an internationalization strategy.

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Special Section: The Transformative Value of Cloud Computing: A Decoupling, Platformization, and Recombination Theoretical Framework

Cited by 124 publications

References 42 publications

Rethinking the Meaning of Cloud Computing for Health Care: A Taxonomic Perspective and Future Research Directions

Rethinking the Meaning of Cloud Computing for Health Care: A Taxonomic Perspective and Future Research Directions

Multi-Organizational Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration Systems: An Exploratory Research Study of Design Concerns in Healthcare

Platformization and Internationalization in the LEGO Group

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