During the last decade, the scope of IT outsourcing arrangements evolved from a dyadic client vendor relationship to a multi-sourcing environment characterized by sourcing inter-dependent services from multiple vendors. This study addresses the journey of a large client firm in the retail sector who experienced that managing a multi-sourcing arrangement differs significantly from managing bilateral (i.e. dyadic) relationships. The journey describes various obstacles that the retailer faced in managing an IT multi-sourcing arrangement, their improvement initiatives, and subsequently a strategic transformation towards a digital ecosystem.

Sector coupling has traditionally been a rather narrow concept to analyze synergies of urban system integration with particular focus on transport, energy and waste systems. The evolution of the fifth generation (5G) networks with its fixed and mobile convergence fundamentally enlarges the potentials of sector coupling in network industries. 5G has the character of an application-agnostic General-Purpose Technology (GPT) building a critical input for a large and open set of downstream Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Due to this vertical relationship vertical sector coupling gains particular relevance in all network industries and beyond in many areas of the App economy. Moreover, the potentials of 5G based horizontal sector coupling increases.

Spinal cord Injury can have a debilitating and traumatic effect on affected individuals. The impact is far reaching, including emotional, physical, economic, and social. This impact id not only on the affected individuals, but also their family members, caregivers and the society as well. Prevalence of pressure ulcers was found to be 33.9% in patients with quadriplegia, 47.4% in patients with paraplegia, and 9.6% in patients who had hemiplegia. Pressure ulcers are a debilitating and undesirable complication of traumatic spinal cord injury that can be prevented using wearable sensors and mobile devices. Weight offloading is one of the recommended solutions to prevent pressure ulcers. Our team designed and developed a mobile application that was tied to a pressure sensor mat, used to track and monitor weight offloading. Our sensor-based system was designed to measure two outcomes-one, verify weight offloading and two-to investigate if prompting an individual can help them remember to weight offload. Our analysis showed that most patients remember to perform weight offloading exercises with initial assistance of technology. We designed a new threshold-based algorithm for our sensor-based system to detect weight offload called COMpredict. The prediction accuracies of the algorithm are relatively high with approximately 90% of accuracy for most weight shifting tests and 70.49% for wheelchair push up test.