Enterprise Systems Engineering (ESE) is an emerging research field. ESE views an enterprise as a system with a life cycle and a deliverable at the end of an ESE process. It involves modeling, analysis, design, control, improvement, and re-engineering activities. It has a focus on intra-enterprise business processes and inter-enterprise operations. This paper proposes a framework that defines th...

Nowadays, the Operating System (OS) isn’t only the software that runs your computer. In the typical informationdriven organization, the operating system is part of a much larger platform for applications and data that extends across the LAN, WAN and Internet. An OS cannot be an island unto itself; it must work with the rest of the enterprise. Enterprise wide applications require an Enterprise O...

This paper will present an architecture for the virtual enterprise based upon an object oriented business process modeling approach. The paper proposes that business processes naturally fall into three categories. Category (1) processes transform external constraints into an internal constraint structure that might be expressed as a system of objectives, policies, and procedures. Category (2) p...

The complex adaptive enterprise can learn from and react to global events faster than the competition because of its self-awareness and its ability to adapt. An enterprise is self-aware if it understands the interdependencies between its own resources and how these resources and interdependencies contribute to its own competitive advantage. The complex adaptive enterprise then uses this underst...

Although Enterprise 2.0 collaboration technologies present enterprises with a significant amount of business benefits; enterprises are still facing challenges in promoting and sustaining end-user adoption. The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review on Enterprise 2.0 collaboration technology adoption models, challenges, as well as to provide emerging statistic approaches that pu...

Enterprise architecture is an important instrument to address company-wide integration both from a business and an IT point of view. Companies that choose to implement an Enterprise Architecture initiative often believe that if a description of the company’s architecture exists it will automatically generate value to the company but sadly, this is usually not the case. Even if companies know th...

LIBRARIES copies of this thesis document in whole or in part in any medium now known or hereaf eated. Abstract Aerospace enterprises tend to take a strategic approach to managing their enterprise. This thesis posits that stakeholder theory presents another way of looking at the enterprise, as it incorporates elements of both structure and behavior. Using a Lean enterprise thinking framework, th...

The health of the public depends on a healthy clinical research enterprise, and a healthy clinical research enterprise cannot develop if it is disconnected from the clinical care enterprise. The integration of a robust clinical research enterprise into the U.S. health care system is now, more than ever, a national priority, and a completely new approach is desperately needed.

Virtual enterprise is a new form of organization in recent years which adapt to the IT environment. Information resources management implemented in the virtual enterprise is determined by the form of business organization and information exchange mechanisms. According to the present characteristics of virtual enterprise management, it puts forward the strategies and measures of information reso...

Designing enterprise architectures for accountability is to reason about options. Instead of taking enterprise architectures as products, the paper seeks to comprehend how they are produced. Considering enterprise architecture as an entangled category of sociological, political and democratic challenges provide an opportunity to determine the political topos of enterprise architectures.