This paper assesses the rise of business process re-engineering (BPR) as a new approach to managing and organising work. Organisations wishing to implement BPR may either choose a set of generic business processes or devise a set of processes specific to their own situation. An approach to developing enterprise specific business processes is then proposed, based on an analogy with the introduct...

Implementing large Spatial Information Systems (SIS) brings very important problems like figuring out what users really want, adapting the technology to the organizational needs, and implementing new operational/administrative procedures. Actually, the field called Information Engineering builds and uses structured information system design methodologies, as well as specific tools (e.g. data mo...