Dynamic Business Process Formation for Instant Virtual Enterprises

ISBN-13: 9781848826908 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 266 str.

Nikolay Mehandjiev;Paul Grefen

Opis

Shortening times to market of complex products on the one hand and the need for faster and more efficient creation and evolution of highly specialized enterprises on the other hand motivate the need for Instant Virtual Enterprises. These rely on contemporary software technology for their formation, coordination, evolution, and ultimately, disbandment. This book fuses practical needs with theoretical input to present important research innovations in supporting Instant Virtual Enterprises (IVEs). We show how a business opportunity in the manufacturing domain can be analyzed to form an IVE in a systematic and semi-automated manner, and how this can lead to the construction and then deployment of web-service-based worklows to support the dynamic cross-organizational processes coordinating the work of the IVE. This book contains the main results for the IST CrossWork project, yet it reflects more general developments in the use of advanced information technology to support highly dynamic organisation structures in modern day industrial supply chains and business service networks. The subject matter covers both business and technical aspects of Virtual Enterprise coordination, and this is reflected in the modular structure of the book, designed to allow readers from different backgrounds to benefit from the book according to their interests.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Towards New Frontiers:CrossWork Part 2: Business, Organization and Architecture 3. Business Aspect 4. Organization Aspect 5. Architecture Aspect Part 3: CrossWork Technology 6. Goal Decomposition and Team Formation 7. Business Process Composition 8. Business Process Enactment 9. The User Perspective 10.Domain Knowledge Integration Part 4: Case Studies 11.Automotive Industry Case Studies 12.Comparable Approaches to IVE Part 5: Conclusion 13.Conclusion 14.Outlook

Blurb

Dynamic Business Process Formation fuses practical needs with theoretical input to present important research innovations in supporting Instant Virtual Enterprises (IVEs). This new organization type brings a combination of business dynamism and explicit business process structure to domains where on-the-fly formation of well-organized business networks is required to deal with the complexity of new products or services under high time pressure.

This book contains the main results of the IST CrossWork project, and, importantly, looks beyond the boundaries of this project and sources input from related projects and general trends in collaborative enterprises and the automotive industry.

Both the business and technical aspects of Virtual Enterprise coordination are covered within the modular structure of the book, which enables readers from different backgrounds to benefit from the book according to their interests.