The objective of this paper is to draft a possible outlook on future research in the area of networked organizations, given its evolution during the past decade. In those 10 years, focus shifted from supporting the flow of standard goods between multiple enterprises to supporting the delivery of one-of-a-kind goods or services by a temporary consortium of enterprises. The paper presents an overview of past research in the area, as well as a synopsis of the challenges researchers are currently dealing with. Three main challenges for businesses are reflected upon, namely sustainable collaboration, managing and taking advantages of complexity, and inter-enterprise creation and innovation.

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The chapter presents an overview of the eight that are part of the European IoT Security and Privacy Projects initiative (IoT-ESP) addressing advanced concepts for end-to-end security in highly distributed, heterogeneous and dynamic IoT environments. The approaches presented are holistic and include identification and authentication, data protection and prevention against cyber-attacks at the device and system levels. The projects present architectures, concepts, methods and tools for open IoT platforms integrating evolving sensing, actuating, energy harvesting, networking and interface technologies. Platforms should provide connectivity and intelligence, actuation and control features, linkage to modular and ad-hoc cloud services, The IoT platforms used are compatible with existing international developments addressing object identity management, discovery services, virtualisation of objects, devices and infrastructures and trusted IoT approaches.

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