Business Finder - A Tool for Regional Networking among Organizations
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Networks of organizations improve the competitiveness of its member companies. Computer applications can make the competencies of organizations more visible to encourage companies to find matching costumers, suppliers, or cooperation partners. Business Finder (BF) is a tool for improving mutual awareness among small and medium enterprises (SME) in regional networks. BF is based on text matching algorithms already applied among human actors within the field of knowledge management. Being integrated into the ordinary document management, BF allows creating updated, comprehensive, and detailed profiles of an organization’s competencies and activities. Searching on profiles of other organizations enables identifying potential partners. The design of BF is based on an empirical study into networking needs among SME in the IT domain. The prestudy together with an early evaluation study was conducted in the German region of Siegen-Wittgenstein.
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