Title : 
Futurist competition: IT in SMEs in the Year 2010
         
        
            Author : 
Muller-Merbach, Heiner
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Summary form only given. The author and the software house proALPHA are carried out the futurist competition "IT in SMEs in the Year 2010". Researchers, practitioners, and students were invited to participate. The competition serves two groups of purposes: (i) to increase the image of proALPHA as a future-oriented, innovative and responsive software house, and (ii) to collect future ideas and to make use of them for the own future products
         
        
            Keywords : 
information technology; software houses; technological forecasting; IT; future ideas; future products; future-oriented software house; futurist competition; medium-sized enterprises; proALPHA; small-sized enterprises; Enterprise resource planning; IEEE news; Samarium; Software systems;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Management of Engineering and Technology, 2001. PICMET '01. Portland International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Portland, OR
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-890843-06-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/PICMET.2001.951919