Case-study: How to implement collaborative software supply-chains - Lessons learned from the task-initiative

Abstract

This paper describes the evolution of organizational structures and collaborative behaviors of forty different software producing companies, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, with a common aim of developing component based business software. The case shows that the role and cultural experience of network facilitators has a major input on further organizational evolution. To analyze the forces for diverse structural evolution and the exploration of suitable implementation processes for regional catalyst are the central intentions of the paper.