Type and Duration
FFF-Förderprojekt, November 2021 until October 2023Coordinator
Institute of Information SystemsMain Research
Business Process ManagementDescription
The rise and permeation of digital technologies, such as internet of things (IoT), cloud storage, and data analytics, offer a wide range of opportunities for organizations across industries. In the manufacturing industry the interconnectivity of machines, processes, and employees with the help of digital technologies, often referred to as industrial IoT (IIoT), offers significant potential for improved logistics and flexible as well as resource-efficient production.Extant literature on IIoT has predominantly either taken a technological or business perspective. Only recently have information systems researchers started to explore the phenomenon from a sociotechnical perspective. One key assumption about the IIoT is that these increasingly intelligent systems can flexibly adopt to changes in their external environment and be extended to build increasingly complex networks of human and machine agents. We thus see the emergence of a new paradigm of organizing for IT system development replacing traditional notions of IT system development.
However, the processes underlying the development and emergence of IIoT systems have not been explored in considerable depth. IIoT systems are an important type of digital innovation, characterized by high levels of complexity and heterogeneity and build as ensembles of physical and digital components. Against this backdrop, this project aims to explore the phenomenon of IIoT emergence and to investigate the intertwining of technological and organizational change through the emergence of IIoT systems based on an exploratory case study.
keywords: Industrie 4.0, Digitale Innovationen, Technologischer und organisatorischer Wandel, Explorative Fallstudie