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Idea Management in SMEs – Design Principles for Collaboration in Idea Management Systems

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To improve Digital Transformation efforts in SMEs, the application of dedicated Idea Management Systems that involve the collaboration with external supporters is promising. In this context, scientific contributions that structure underlying design knowledge appear to be scarce. Addressing this gap, this paper proposes eleven Design Principles that prescribe the collaboration between SMEs and external supporters in Idea Management Systems. These Design Principles have been derived retrospectively from a previous Action Design Research endeavor. Ultimately, they inform the implementation of solution instances.

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    Andreas Hermann, Torsten Gollhardt, Paul Kruse, Ann-Kristin Cordes & Jörg Becker

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Hermann, A., Gollhardt, T., Kruse, P., Cordes, AK., Becker, J. (2022). Idea Management in SMEs – Design Principles for Collaboration in Idea Management Systems. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S., Salvendy, G. (eds) HCI International 2022 – Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1655. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19682-9_35

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