A Process- and Knowledge-Based Model to Identify and to Evaluate the Potential of RFID Applications

According to a Gartner study (http://www.silicon.de), fifty percent of all RFID projects fail. The reasons for this are varied. One major factor is frequently traceable to the early (planning) stage of the RFID project: a lack of process-based expertise and operating experience when it comes to identifying and evaluating the potential of RFID deployments. The availability of useful models (encompassing procedural know-how and/or how-to documents) is frequently limited. In current models, strategic aspects, risk assessments and process-based cause-and-effect chains are treated as secondary considerations. As a result, deficiencies in the process flow persist past the introduction of RFID technology and desired synergy effects fail to materialize. In this paper, we seek to explore these issues and develop conceptional approaches for the systematical identification and evaluation of the potential of RFID applications .