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Erfolgreiche Veränderung hängt von der zielgerichteten Umsetzung pragmatischer Konzepte ab. Das Business Engineering liefert diese Konzepte. Das Buch zeigt, wie sie in der betrieblichen Realität zu erfolgreichen Projekten führen. Die Nutzung der Informationstechnologie ist dabei das verbindende Element. Die von erfahrenen Praktikern des Business Engineering verfassten Beiträge drehen sich zum einen um technologiegetriebene Wertschöpfungspotenziale und zum anderen um den methodischen Transformationsprozess zum Unternehmen des Informationszeitalters. Sie beschäftigen sich mit den zentralen Fragen des unternehmerischen Wandels: Wie ändert sich die Geschäftslogik z.B. von Finanzdienstleistern, Industrieunternehmen oder Immobilienmanagement-Gesellschaften unterstützt durch innovative Anwendungen? Welche Potenziale ergeben sich für Supply-Chain-Management-Prozesse oder für ein innovatives HR-Management? Welche Effekte ergeben sich in Netzwerken? Wie lassen sich die Erkenntnisse in KMU anwenden?

Welcome to the proceedings of the inaugural Symposium on Collective Intelligence (COLLIN 2010). This was the first of a new series of events that will evolve over the coming years, and we were happy to hold the event in Hagen where the idea for this symposium was born. The participants visited Hagen in April, with excellent opportunities to get rain, wind and sun. Collective intelligence denotes a phenomenon according to which the purposeful interaction between individuals creates intelligent solutions and behaviors that might not have come to existence without this concerted effort of a community. The members of such communities form a social network, typically over the Internet. They are engage with each other over a sustained period of time to develop an area of innovation through collaboration and exchange of ideas, experiences and information. Leading-edge information and communication technologies (ICT) offer ample opportunities for enabling collective intelligence. COLLIN aims to become the flagship conference in the areas collective intelligence and ICT-enabled social networking, which is attracting more and more researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry.

Collective intelligence has become an attractive subject of interest for both academia and industry. More and more conferences and workshops discuss the impact of the users‘ motivation to participate in the value creation process, the enabling role of leading-edge information and communication technologies and the need for better algorithms to deal with the growing amount of shared data. There are many interesting and challenging topics that need to be researched and discussed with respect to knowledge creation, creativity and innovation processes carried forward in the emerging communities of practice.COLLIN is on the path to become the flagship conference in the areas of collective intelligence and ICT-enabled social networking. We were delighted to again receive contributions from different parts of the world including Australia, Europe, Asia, and the United States. Encouraged by the positive response, we plan COLLIN 2012 to be held next year end of August at FernUniverstität in Hagen.In order to guarantee the quality of the event, each paper went through a doubleblind review process. The reviews concentrated on originality, quality and relevance of the paper topic to the symposium. In addition, we invited a few renowned experts in the field to contribute to the success of the symposium with outstanding papers reporting on their most recent research. Our special thanks go to the authors for submitting their papers, to the international program committee members, and to numerous reviewers who did an excellent job in guaranteeing that the papers in this volume are of very high quality.