Publications related to The Lean Startup Framework: Closing the Academic-Practitioner Divide

VDM-based navigation for Delta-wing UAVs: Models, calibration, implementation

Autonomous navigation of small UAVs is typically based on the integration of inertial navigation systems (INS) together with global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). However, GNSS signals can face various forms of interference affecting their continuous ...

EPFL2024

Short-term runoff forecasting in an alpine catchment with a long short-term memory neural network

Devis Tuia, Corinna Barbara Frank, Marc Conrad Russwurm

The governing hydrological processes are expected to shift under climate change in the alpine regions of Switzerland. This raises the need for more adaptive and accurate methods to estimate river flow. In high-altitude catchments influenced by snow and gla ...

2023

Problem structuring to enable innovation in business/IT projects

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Tatiana Porté

In this paper, we present a problem structuring method in business and IT analysis illustrated with an example. The project describes an IT consulting case done for a Swiss medical society faced with a problem of change management and digital transformatio ...

LUT Scientific and Expertise Publications2020

The shaping effects of innovation and technology: from micro business model evolution to macro environment sustainability

Qinli Lu

Innovation is a prerequisite guarantee for the development of a country in this new era. It is an important driver not just for corporate growth but also for national social and economic transformation. Considering the strategic supporting role of innovati ...

EPFL2020

The sustainable business model pattern taxonomy-45 patterns to support sustainability-oriented business model innovation

Lorenzo Massa

The literature on sustainable business models (SBMs) offers different classifications of the available kinds of SBM. Our careful reading of this literature reveals that the received classifications have developed adhoc from multiple divergent perspectives. ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

A critical assessment of business model research

Christopher Tucci, Allan Afuah, Lorenzo Massa

Ever since the Internet boom of the mid-1990s, firms have been experimenting with new ways of doing business and achieving their goals, which has led to a branching of the scholarly literature on business models. Three interpretations of the meaning and fu ...

Acad Management2017

Einsatz von Nichtmarktstrategien durch oeffentliche Unternehmen gegenueber dem Staat : Untersuchung am Beispiel der Schweizerischen Post AG

Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

Public enterprises operate in the area between the opposing poles of state and market. On the one hand they must meet a wide range of political expectations, and on the other they must fulfil commercial efficiency criteria. This dissertation addresses how ...

EPFL2017

Digital transformation, business models and the postal industry

Nandkumar Harshan Kollara

For many decades, the postal industry offered postal services and in parallel, had a monopoly over the national postal markets. Recently, the postal industry endured a phase where their national postal markets were subjected to liberalisation by the respec ...

EPFL2017

The Economics of Sharing Markets

Maryam Razeghian Jahromi

Sharing and redistributing assets between individuals has become a noticeable part of the economy. Ownership is no longer the sole mode of consumption and consumers have the option of choosing between ownership and access-based consumption. This change in ...

EPFL2017

Energy management in manufacturing: From literature review to a conceptual framework

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Gökan May

The literature on energy management in manufacturing is rapidly growing. Since the literature is also quite fragmented, we believe that the time has come to delve into current knowledge in the research field to provide directions for policy makers and guid ...

Elsevier2017

Positioning Autonomy of a Fixed-Wing UAV through VDM/INS Integration with Experimental Results

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

In this paper, practical realization of a previously proposed VDM based integrated navigation for UAVs is presented. This method utilizes the vehicle dynamic model (VDM) fed by autopilot control commands as main process model within the navigation filter a ...

2017

Digital transformation and open innovation ecosystems in the tilm industry: the case of the Movieday platform

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi

Digital technologies are transforming the film industry. Up until roughly a decade ago, the business model for film exhibition was based on theatrical release in combination with television sales and home cinema releases (video and DVD). Recently, many que ...

2017

The Beacon: A New Framework for Business Model Reconfiguration for Complex Enterprises

Deep Ramnik Parekh

During the last twenty years we have witnessed the steady rise in academic research and practitioner interest and inquiry on the topic of business models. The topic is still in its infancy, and thus a lot of literature hitherto has focused on the basics: d ...

EPFL2016

When do firms undertake open, collaborative activities? Introduction to the special section on open innovation and open business models

Christopher Tucci, Frank Piller

The explicit goal of the inaugural World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC) was to attract both leading academic researchers in open innovation and leading industry practitioners of open innovation, seeking to get these two groups to engage with one another ...

Oxford University Press2016

Autonomous and non-autonomous dynamic model based navigation system for unmanned vehicles

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

A navigation system including a vehicle dynamic model (VDM) that serves as the main process model within a navigation filter is described. When used in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the navigation system may work in communication with inertial measurem ...

2016

Evaluation of Wind Effects on UAV Autonomous Navigation Based on Vehicle Dynamic Model

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

A novel approach to autonomous navigation for small UAVs was recently introduced by the authors. An abridged description of this approach can be found in present paper, with its main contribution being further evaluation of effects of wind on navigation pe ...

Inst Navigation2016

Autonomous Navigation Of Small Uavs Based On Vehicle Dynamic Model

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

This paper presents a novel approach to autonomous navigation for small UAVs, in which the vehicle dynamic model (VDM) serves as the main process model within the navigation filter. The proposed method significantly increases the accuracy and reliability o ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2016

Knowledge-based decision support for improving the adaptive product development process

Predrag Spasojevic

The product development process (PDP) is a complex process encompassing many very diverse activities, and involving a fairly big number of actors, spread across different professions, teams and companies. In todayâ s product development, more often than n ...

EPFL2015

How to successfully publish interdisciplinary research: learning from an Ecology and Society Special Feature

Alexandre Buttler, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

What are the factors that hinder or support publishing interdisciplinary research? What does a successful interdisciplinary publishing process look like? We address these questions by analyzing the publishing process of the interdisciplinary research proje ...

Resilience Alliance2015

Challenges Laying Ahead for Future Digital Enterprises: A Research Perspective

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi

Nowadays, digital enterprises are confronted with disruptive technological advancements in their constant quest for innovation and creativity. In order to evolve towards new forms of enterprises, driven by constant business model transformation, a number o ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015