Torben Tambo

Torben Tambo is M.Sc., GDBA and associate professor at AU Herning, Aarhus University, where he is programme coordinator for MSc in Technology-based Business Development. Previous to this he served 17 years in IT, management and consultant roles within manufacturing and trading/retail companies. Research interests include information systems, enterprise architecture, retailing and supply chain management. Within retailing, larger, specialty retailing organisations has the key focus. Torben has previously published with International Public Policy Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Enterprise Architecture and contributed to several books published by IGI Global. Torben Tambo can be reached at AU Herning – Aarhus University Birk Centerpark 15 DK-7400 Herning E-mail torbento@hih.au.dk

Publications

Internet of Packaging and the Bridge Between Digital Marketing and Physical Retailing
Internet of Packaging and the Bridge Between Digital Marketing and Physical Retailing
Justina Lydekaityte, Torben Tambo. © 2021. 14 pages.
This paper aims to discuss, define, and analyze a set of perspectives and potentials of smart interactive packaging applied to CPGs to fill up the space between marketing and...
IT Service Management Architectures
IT Service Management Architectures
Torben Tambo, Jacob Filtenborg. © 2019. 13 pages.
IT service providers tend to view their services as quasi-embedded in the client organization infrastructure. Therefore, IT service providers lack a full picture of being an...
IT Service Management Architectures
IT Service Management Architectures
Torben Tambo, Jacob Filtenborg. © 2018. 11 pages.
IT service providers tend to view their services as quasi-embedded in the client organisations infrastructure. Therefore, IT service providers lack a full picture of being an...
Fashion Retail Innovation: About Context, Antecedents, and Outcome in Technological Change Projects
Fashion Retail Innovation: About Context, Antecedents, and Outcome in Technological Change Projects
Torben Tambo. © 2018. 28 pages.
Fashion retail is recognised for its strong capabilities in product innovation, while also having the potential to improve the governance of technology-based process innovation....
Motives for Feral Systems in Denmark
Motives for Feral Systems in Denmark
Torben Tambo, Martin Olsen, Lars Bækgaard. © 2016. 30 pages.
Feral systems have largely been regarded as the users' response to discrepancies between official IT software systems and actual business processes. Inadequacies...
Fashion Supply Chain Optimization: Linking Make-to-Order Purchasing and B2B E-Commerce
Fashion Supply Chain Optimization: Linking Make-to-Order Purchasing and B2B E-Commerce
Torben Tambo, Ole Egebjerg Mikkelsen. © 2016. 21 pages.
In global, short-life-cycle supply chains, the Make-to-Order (MTO) principle of purchasing is dominant in securing the match between customers' commitment and ordered goods....
Omni-Channel Retail Information Systems
Omni-Channel Retail Information Systems
Torben Tambo. © 2015. 9 pages.
Fashion Retail Innovation: About Context, Antecedents, and Outcome in Technological Change Projects
Fashion Retail Innovation: About Context, Antecedents, and Outcome in Technological Change Projects
Torben Tambo. © 2015. 26 pages.
Fashion retail is recognised for its strong capabilities in product innovation, while also having the potential to improve the governance of technology-based process innovation....
Transitioning to Government Shared Services Centres: A Systems View
Transitioning to Government Shared Services Centres: A Systems View
Torben Tambo, Lars Bækgaard. © 2015. 30 pages.
Services are fundamental to the provisioning of business activities. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is maintaining the relationship between strategy, business, and technology. A...
Transitioning to Government Shared Services Centres: A Systems View
Transitioning to Government Shared Services Centres: A Systems View
Torben Tambo, Lars Bækgaard. © 2014. 31 pages.
Services are fundamental to the provisioning of business activities. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is maintaining the relationship between strategy, business, and technology. A...
Motives for Feral Systems in Denmark
Motives for Feral Systems in Denmark
Torben Tambo, Martin Olsen, Lars Bækgaard. © 2014. 32 pages.
Feral systems have largely been regarded as the users’ response to discrepancies between official IT software systems and actual business processes. Inadequacies, discrepancies...
Architectural Issues Related to Feral Information Systems
Architectural Issues Related to Feral Information Systems
Lars Bækgaard, Martin Olsen, Torben Tambo. © 2014. 15 pages.
User-developed Information System (IS) add-ons, like spreadsheet applications, can be observed in many companies. Such IS add-ons are created for a variety of reasons, as for...
International Fashion Retailing from an Enterprise Architecture Perspective
International Fashion Retailing from an Enterprise Architecture Perspective
Torben Tambo. © 2013. 17 pages.
International retailing of non-food fashion products, as chain stores impose a particular challenge within Enterprise Architecture (EA) as the same general infrastructure...
Free and Open Source ERP: Distinction, Direction, Co-Existence, and Potentials
Free and Open Source ERP: Distinction, Direction, Co-Existence, and Potentials
Torben Tambo, Christian Koch. © 2013. 17 pages.
With the proliferation of commercial Packaged ERP (P-ERP) systems in today’s enterprises, many reasons exist to look for alternatives in the quest for innovation, business...
Free and Open Source ERP: Distinction, Direction, Co-Existence, and Potentials
Free and Open Source ERP: Distinction, Direction, Co-Existence, and Potentials
Torben Tambo, Christian Koch. © 2012. 18 pages.
With the proliferation of commercial Packaged ERP (P-ERP) systems in today’s enterprises, many reasons exist to look for alternatives in the quest for innovation, business...
Architecting for Connected Healthcare: A Case of Telehomecare and Hypertension
Architecting for Connected Healthcare: A Case of Telehomecare and Hypertension
Torben Tambo, Nikolai Hoffmann-Petersen, Karsten Bejder. © 2012. 20 pages.
The healthcare system is in many countries operated by the governments, and interaction with the healthcare system is one of the most frequent interactions between citizen and...
International Fashion Retailing from an Enterprise Architecture Perspective
International Fashion Retailing from an Enterprise Architecture Perspective
Torben Tambo. © 2011. 16 pages.
International retailing of non-food fashion products, as chain stores impose a particular challenge within Enterprise Architecture (EA) as the same general infrastructure...