Herr Dr. Amshoff, Leiter Robotik bei Miele, gibt

am 05.06. (Mi) von 16-17:30 in V8-119

einen Praxis-Einblick zu Management-Herausforderungen bei smarten Produkten.

Die International Conference on Managing Smart Products and Services (CHIMSPAS) findet zum nunmehr fünften Mal statt (am 29.+30. August und diesmal wieder am CITEC der Universität Bielefeld). Informationen zur Konferenz finden sich auf der Website unter www.chimspas.de.

Call for Abstracts

In the past couple of years, a vivid community emerged that is supported by researchers with various backgrounds, especially from the fields of service management, innovation management, and business information systems. Again, we cordially invite researchers and practitioners from these and other management fields as well as from further disciplines such as engineering, psychology, or law to join us for another CHIMSPAS event.

Conference contributions need to be related to challenges in managing smart products and services, which might arise in diverse fields such as those listed alphabetically in the following:

• Business Information Systems Engineering (e.g., establishing smart service platforms)
• Entrepreneurship (e.g., collaboration with startups in developing smart products)
• Human Resource Management (e.g., new skills required, new working styles or cultural norms)
• Innovation and Technology Management (e.g., barriers to smart product adoption and diffusion, acquisition of required technologies)
• Logistics (e.g., continuous tracking of products w.r.t. location, current condition, environment)
• Marketing (e.g., finer customer segmentation, better after-sale service, novel pricing strategies)
• Organization (e.g., new organizational structures to coordinate units more closely)
• Production (e.g., predictive analytics enabling service innovation in manufacturing, industry 4.0)
• Services Management (e.g., smart service systems)
• Strategic Management (e.g., new business model)

Both completed research and work in progress will be considered.

Die Arbeitsgruppe "Simulation und Optimierung komplexer Systeme" der Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR) trifft sich am 7.+8. Nov. 2024 zum alljährigen Workshop. Diesmal findet das Treffen am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) an der Universität Bielefeld statt, organisiert vom Institut für Technologische Innovation, Marktentwicklung und Entrepreneurship (iTIME) in Kooperation mit dem Center for Uncertainty Studies (CeUS).

Detail-Informationen findet sich auf der Konferenz-Website.

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Folgender Gastvortrag am Mi., 15.12.2021, 15 Uhr, ist (auch) Teil der iTIME-Vortragsreihe:

Titel des Vortrags: How does my neighbour think? Mental models and opinion dynamics update rules

Abstract:

Most models in opinion dynamics are created from simple ad-hoc rules. Different models match distinct applications better and very little work exists on how they relate to each other. In this talk, I will show how we can define general models from a framework for how agents communicate and how we can obtain update rules from agent mental models and simple uses of the Bayes theorem. That allows us to easily include specific aspects of any applications we might be interested in as well. And we can also understand, up to some underdeterminacy, which mental models seem to correspond to each of the update rules we find in the literature.

Bio:

André Martins is currently Associate Professor at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Having his roots in Physics, his current research areas are sociophysics, statistical mechanics, evolutionary models and simulation of social and biological systems. André will join Bielefeld University in 2022 and will be part of the project "InChangE – Individualisierung in sich ändernden Umwelten".

Bei Interesse, an der Veranstaltung teilzunehmen, wenden Sie sich bitte an christian.stummer@uni-bielefeld.de.

The next International Conference on Challenges in Managing Smart Products and Services (CHIMSPAS) will take place on August 25 & 26, 2022, in a hybrid format, that is, participation is possible onsite in Bielefeld (Germany) or online.

Abstracts for talks can be submitted until April 3, 2022.

Conference Website: https://chimspas.de/

Call for Abstracts:  https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/wirtschaftswissenschaften/tagungen/chimspas-2022/call-for-abstracts.xml

Call for Papers

Opening conference of the Research Group
“Economic and Legal Challenges in the Advent of Smart Products”
OCTOBER 4-6, 2021

The Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University is pleased to announce the opening conference of its new Research Group “Economic and Legal Challenges in the Advent of Smart Products”. The conference aims to provide a platform for both disciplinary and interdisciplinary exchange on topics related the development and legal regulation of smart products, as well as factors determining their acceptance and diffusion. Questions of particular interest include:

- How are innovation activities of firms affected by the legal environment?
- How do data privacy concerns affect the behaviour of consumers, firms, and policy makers?
- How do specific features of smart products (such as autonomous activity, data collection, opacity as a result to deep learning) affect consumers’ trust in these products and their willingness to adopt?
- Which empirical and theoretical approaches are suitable for analyzing the (expected) diffusion of smart products?
- How to deal with the major regulatory challenges arising in age of smart products?

We are mainly inviting papers with an economic and/or legal perspective on such questions (thereby using various methodological approaches), but we also welcome submissions from other disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, and data sciences. Apart from contributed sessions, the conference will also feature two keynotes, as well as a panel discussion with policy makers and industry leaders.

Keynotes: Eric Talley (Columbia University) and Mireille Hildebrandt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Organizing committee: Herbert Dawid (Bielefeld University), Sabine Gless (University of Basel), Gerd Muehlheusser (University of Hamburg)

Fees, costs and registration: There is no participation fee, but participants need to register for the conference in advance. ZiF will cover the cost for travel and accommodation for presenters and discussants according to its regulations.

Conference format: As of now, we plan that the conference takes place in person at ZiF. Should travel restrictions still apply by then, we will be able to switch to a hybrid or even fully online format.

Submission: Please submit either a full paper or an extended abstract (written in English, preferably in PDF) by MAY 1, 2021 to smart-products@uni-bielefeld.de

Contact: Nadine Sutmöller (ZiF), Methoden 1, 33615 Bielefeld, nadine.sutmoeller@uni-bielefeld.de

To learn more about the Research Group and to obtain up-to-date information concerning the conference, please visit: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/ZiF/FG/2021SmartProducts/index.html

Call for Papers "Managing Smart Services and Smart Service Systems" for a Special Issue in the SMR Journal of Service Management Research

Guest Editors:
Nicola Bilstein, Professor of Management of Smart Products
Christian Stummer, Professor of Innovation and Technology Management

Submission Deadline: October 15th, 2021

We welcome empirical and analytical papers using a variety of methods to addressing meaningful research questions in this context. We also invite conceptual papers offering a strong theoretical contribution to the management of smart services and smart service systems.

Topics of interest to the Special Issue might stem from various fields such as those exemplarily listed in the following:

• Service Management (e.g., developing smart transformative services, value co-creation within smart service systems, understanding value creation with smart services in various fields of application such as smart home, smart health, smart mobility)
• Strategic Management (e.g., new business model, importance of data, open or closed system)
• Marketing (e.g., designing proper offers of smart services and smart service systems, communicating them to customers, branding, distribution channels)
• Innovation and Technology Management (e.g., user innovation/co-creation in developing smart services, drivers and barriers to smart service adoption and diffusion)
• Entrepreneurship (e.g., creating sustainable business models for smart services, collaboration with startups in developing smart services)
• Business Information Systems Engineering (e.g., establishing smart service platforms)
• Human Resource Management (e.g., smart services in the working context, new skills required)
• Organization (e.g., usage of smart services on various organizational levels down to the team level)
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management (e.g., smart services for continuous tracking of products w.r.t. location, current condition, environment)
• Production (e.g., predictive analytics enabling service innovation in manufacturing, industry 4.0)
• Sustainability (e.g., smart services as a means to foster sustainability)

Folgender Gastvortrag am Do., 14.1.2021, 14 Uhr, ist (auch) Teil der iTIME-Vortragsreihe:

Titel des Vortrags: Bayesian Decision Making

Abstract:

There are often high expectations on the business impact that data science can produce. Unfortunately, various barriers often hinder the full realization of that impact, starting with communication challenges between different parts of the organization with different backgrounds. To bridge this chasm, data scientists and stake-holders should agree on a business relevant loss function to optimize. This way, any improvements in the model can directly be measured in their impact on the bottom line.
In this talk, I will show how probabilistic programming frameworks like PyMC3 can be used to solve an applied problems with an example from capital allocation. This approach allows us to accurately and flexibly map a real-world problem to a statistical model that can be quickly iterated and improved on. I will then show how the results of such a model, which are usually arcane and non-actionable posterior probability distributions, can be coupled with a loss function based on business mechanics, to (i) derive business related outcome measures, and (ii) suggest the optimal decision to make, rather than inform it.

Bio:

Thomas Wiecki is the Chief Executive Officer at PyMC Labs. Prior to that Thomas was the lead data science researcher at Quantopian, where he used probabilistic programming and machine learning to help build the world's first crowdsourced hedge fund. Among other open source projects, he is involved in the development of PyMC—a probabilistic programming framework written in Python. A recognized international speaker, Thomas has given talks at various conferences across the US, Europe, and Asia. He holds a PhD in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University.

Titel des Forschungsvorhabens:
The innovation effect of cooperating with a startup: Exploring consumers' innovation perception of incumbent firms

Forschergruppe: Prof. Nicola Bilstein, Melina Schleef, Prof. Christian Stummer 

Title: The person brand effect and the role of product innovation: Consumers' stereotypes influence evaluations of persons and their products

Abstract: A series of field and laboratory experiments found that consumers' stereotypes influence perceptions of a person who creates a product (i.e., a person brand) as well as post-trial evaluations of the product. Consistent with schema congruity theory, consumers evaluated a product created by a person who was counter stereotypical on one dimension (e.g., gender but not ethnicity) more positively than the stereotypical creator's product. Consumers' cognitive resources during trial are a boundary condition on improved evaluations of a unidimensional deviate’s product. In contrast, consumers evaluated a product created by a person who was counter stereotypical on two dimensions (e.g., gender and ethnicity) most negatively. Product innovation moderated these effects such that an innovative product created by a bidimensional deviate was evaluated similar to that of the stereotypical creator's product. These findings have implications for branding, product innovation, schema congruity theory and stereotyping.