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Role of User Profile in Cloud-based Collaboration Services for Innovation

Authors:
Zahid Iqbal
Josef Noll
Sarfraz Alam

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Enterprise, Innovation, Privacy, Social Computing, Trust, User Profile

Abstract:
Enterprises are evolving their businesses from silo-based knowledge to collaborative-based knowledge by promoting open innovation through collaboration in to their technology infrastructure. Despite of being a prevailing trend, enterprises are not quite willing to embrace the collaboration into their working environment. This unwillingness is due to number of technical obstacles including user profiling, balancing of open and close collaboration and trust establishment. Therefore, the paper tries to address these impediments by contemplating collaborative enterprise computing approach that creates the network of enterprises for enabling the active, automated and trusted inter-enterprise collaboration. We propose a privacy-enhanced innovation framework that eases off the innovation process in an open and control manner. The framework does not only allow enterprise employees to create a user profile but also encourage them to initiate innovation activity by registering their novel ideas, which later can be realized in the form of business opportunity. We select an "innovation stock exchange" case study in order to apply the proposed approach. Furthermore, we intend to implement the framework in the form of cloud services that are interoperable with any enterprise collaboration platform.

Pages: 1 to 10

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2011. Used with permission.

Publication date: September 15, 2011

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2636