Realising Future Internet Potentials for Food Chain SMEs: A Hierarchy of Needs

Harald Sundmaeker

Abstract


The EC funded FI‐PPP programme is currently elaborating a large set of enabling technologies that shall help to overcome challenges towards a sustainable networked society of tomorrow. This up‐front investment can highly facilitate access to such Internet potentials by food chain SMEs. Nevertheless, SMEs require a systematic support for being able to decide on which technological enablers are relevant at which moment of their business evolution. To characterise a decision reference, a hierarchy of needs of food chain SMEs is presented that can serve as
baseline when aiming at the usage of the FI‐PPP results in an SME environment.

Keywords


food chain SMEs; information systems; future internet; business collaboration; ICT introduction

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18461/ijfsd.v4i4.444

ISSN 1869-6945

 

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