Fons Wijnhoven - Böcker

Information and its management is central to modern society. Organizations – private and public, national and international – have recognized that information is a key resource and that its management is critical for success.Existing books on information management focus on the abilities of computers to process data, the development of information systems, and the management of IT resources. They often start with the computer as a key issue. Although Information Management acknowledges the importance of computers and data communication, it starts from a deeper understanding of the concepts of information and knowledge, and on the basis of this understanding, derives methods to use computers effectively. This textbook provides graduates of any discipline with an understanding of the theory and practice that underpins information management, and introduces students to the concepts and applications of information management techniques in a variety of organizational contexts.In giving students strong philosophical foundations, Fons Wijnhoven's book will prove to be an excellent primer in information management.

Information and its management is central to modern society. Organizations – private and public, national and international – have recognized that information is a key resource and that its management is critical for success.Existing books on information management focus on the abilities of computers to process data, the development of information systems, and the management of IT resources. They often start with the computer as a key issue. Although Information Management acknowledges the importance of computers and data communication, it starts from a deeper understanding of the concepts of information and knowledge, and on the basis of this understanding, derives methods to use computers effectively. This textbook provides graduates of any discipline with an understanding of the theory and practice that underpins information management, and introduces students to the concepts and applications of information management techniques in a variety of organizational contexts.In giving students strong philosophical foundations, Fons Wijnhoven's book will prove to be an excellent primer in information management.

Information services are economic and organizational activities for informing people. Because informing is changing rapidly under the influence of internet-technologies, this book presents in Chapter 1 fundamental notions of information and knowledge, based on philosopher C.W. Churchman’s inquiring systems. This results in the identification of three product-oriented design theory aspects: content, use value and revenue. Chapter 2 describes how one can cope with these aspects by presenting process-oriented design theory. Both design theory insights are applied in chapters on information services challenges, their business concepts and processes, their architectures and exploitation. The final chapter discusses three case studies that integrate the insights from previous chapters, and it discusses some ideas for future research.This book gives students a coherent start to the topic of information services from a design science perspective, with a balance between technical and managerial aspects. Therefore, this book is useful for modern curricula of management, communication science and information systems. Because of its design science approach, it also explains design science principles. The book also serves professionals and academics in search of a foundational understanding of informing as a science and management practice.

The present book includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers presented at the 18th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2021, held as an online web-based event (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) in July 2021.The 17 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 197 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: e-Business and security and cryptography.

This book includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers presented at the 19th International Conference on Smart Business Technologies, ICSBT 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, July 14–16, 2022, and 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, SECRYPT 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-13, 2022.The 7 full papers included in the volume were carefully selected from the 143 submissions accepted to participate in the conference. The papers present reciting research on e-Business technology and its current applications; and all aspects of security and privacy.

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 20thInternational Conference on Smart Business Technologies, ICSBT 2023, held inRome, Italy, during July 11–13, 2023. The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selectedfrom 30 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Smart Business Technologies, ICSBT 2024, which took place in Dijon, France, during July 9–10, 2024.The 7 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. They focus on all aspects of foundational technological topics, such as technology platforms, internet of things, artificial intelligence, data science and web services, and application area needs and requirements, such as business processes, business intelligence, digital twins, value setting, and business strategy for manufacturing, service and trade domains.

This book constitutes the conference proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Smart Business Technologies, ICSBT 2025 held in Bilbao, Spain, during June 11–12, 2025.The 19 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions.They focus on the conference theme “Artificial Intelligence and The Future of GenAI in Business”, highlighting the transformative potential of Generative AI and its applications in the business world.

The ability to manage knowledge is relevant for millions of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that operate in high-tech environments. They strongly depend on external knowledge about customers, technologies, and competitors because, as opposed to large companies, they have limited internal knowledge resources and little power to control their business environments. Present KM literature, however, mainly focuses on large companies and therefore does not explain, how SMEs, for example, can successfully apply groupware, data mining, semantic networks, and knowledge maps. This book addresses this problem by introducing the concept of knowledge integration (KI) that places emphasis on the identification, acquisition and use of external knowledge. Drawing from this theoretical basis, the book presents concepts and instruments specifically designed for SMEs, as well as examples of their implementation and use in practice.