Transfer projects
Transfer projects are regularly carried out at the Institute of Information Systems to bring research results into the regional economy and society and to enable innovation. The content of these transfer projects, which is based on the research focus (data, innovation, processes, security), covers topics like digitalization, business process management, big data, data science, machine learning, AI, and process mining. The projects’ scope and duration and participation by members of the Institute of Information Systems vary depending on the projects’ requirements and the topics’ complexity.
The following overview shows a selection of transfer projects undertaken by the Institute over the last few years.
Image recognition for quality assurance in production
This project implements an image-recognition method for detecting defective products. The main challenge is to use a small amount of data to achieve 99 percent accuracy.
Smart Waste Collection
In this project, waste containers were equipped with Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to monitor their filling level. The real-time analysis of the sensor data facilitates planning of trips to empty the containers. As a result, savings in kilometres driven reached 40 percent.
Virtual reality for training assembly processes
This project developed a virtual training and assembly environment that was easy to use and that facilitated application of the knowledge learned in the training environment to the real world.
Large-scale Pattern Mining
In this project, large amounts of data are examined to find patterns (with a focus on time series) that were then automatically evaluated and prioritized using various metrics. The goal is to enable people to perform more targeted, promising, in-depth analyses.
Analysis of data on web use
This project analysed data from several companies’ website visitors using machine learning methods that went beyond such traditional analysis tools as Google Analytics. Several possibilities were identified for categorizing users, detecting problems, and improving the website.
Liechtenstein Moments
Liechtenstein’s citizens document their lives in words and pictures on social networks every day. These posts are modern documents of contemporary events. In this project, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook were searched for publicly accessible posts that were tagged with keywords related to Liechtenstein. These posts were collected, evaluated, and exhibited in a digital special exhibition at the Liechtenstein National Museum.
Digitalization of incoming mail and further processing
At the time of this project, digitalization was making its way into our business lives. Postal traffic in particular could benefit from this development to optimize its business processes. The objective of the project was to determine the potential economic benefits of digitalising postal traffic for the companies in our region. To this end, expert representatives of nine large Liechtenstein companies were asked: What benefits does digitalization of incoming mail promise? What are the risks? What are their companies’ specific requirements? What would innovative organizational and technical solutions look like? As a result of these interviews, sixteen factors were identified that would have significant influence on the success of digitalizing incoming mail. These factors were incorporated as requirements in the design of a corresponding solution for Liechtenstein Post.
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) in Public Administration
The introduction of enterprise content management (ECM) systems has often been studied in information systems research, especially in corporate application contexts. However, few empirical studies have been conducted in public administration. The goal of the cooperative project with the Liechtenstein State Administration was to identify the challenges that were associated with the introduction of ECM in public administration. This study, which lasted more than eighteen months, identified fifteen success factors, categorized as cross-office (e.g. information and communication) or specific to a particular office (e.g. digitalization of paper archives).
Culture in Business Process Management
Successful process management involves taking organizational culture into account and actively managing it. However, the role of culture in an organization’s success is often underestimated. In this research project, cultural aspects of business process management were made tangible by developing an online tool that made it possible to measure a company’s cultural fitness for BPM. The tool has since been successfully used by various companies and industries in the region and abroad.
Process Development Controlling
This cooperative project between Ivoclar Vivadent and the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein designed a scheme that would provide a basis for the economic evaluation of potential and completed organizational projects in support processes. Both qualitative and quantitative criteria were used, and the identification and evaluation of these criteria were based on scientific literature as well as workshops and interviews at Ivoclar Vivadent.
Talent Management
Talent management is one of the central processes in every organization’s human resources department. The goal of the cooperative project with Ivoclar Vivadent AG was to develop the organization’s talent management process globally. After the organization’s existing talent management practices were analysed,, a global talent management process was created and implemented.