Business process flexibility has become one of the most important factors in organizational operation and development. One of the approaches to achieve the flexibility of the business process is bottom up business process best practices propagation and leveraging of those practices at higher organizational levels by appropriate information systems design. The approach is applicable for fractal ...

Formalised service innovation is a central tenet of enterprise systems lifecycle phases. Event driven process models extended with knowledge objects are found to be not useful in early lifecycle phases. When an upgrade is required, a map of the knowledge infrastructure is needed to better design further service innovation because functional maps no longer adequately describe the context adequat...

Although simulators capable of dealing with the different kinds of processes in the simulation of semiconductor device fabrication are widely available, the combination of several of them to a whole process flow is still a complicated endeavor. This paper points out the difficulties arising in data exchange between simulators and we present as a solution the WAFER-STATE SERVER. Our WAFER-STATE ...

The paper introduces a method to design software process models. The method is based on object oriented design extended with a kernel of PM specific classes and relations. A graphical notation to depict process model designs is given together with few structuring and presentation rules.

Structured Abstract Purpose Several organizations choose a process-oriented organizational design as a source for competitive advantage. In this paper, we explore empirically the relationship between process orientation (PO) and firm performance. We consider PO as a multidimensional construct and examine how its underlying dimensions impact different aspects of organizational performance. Desig...

One way to make engineering design effective and efficient is to make its processes flexible – i.e. self-adjusting, self-configuring, and selfoptimizing at run time. This chapter presents the descriptive part of the Dynamic Engineering Design Process (DEDP) modeling framework developed in the PSI1 project. The project aims to build a software tool to assist managers to analyze and enhance the p...

In an increasingly dynamic world where both needs and technologies are changing rapidly, there is a requirement for whole-life Customer-oriented Processes (CoPs) for software systems and software development. In the pursuit of delivering 'fit for purpose' systems, the design of a CoP requires an holistic approach to understanding, engineering, managing and evolving the system and software needs...

Increasing amounts of data offer great opportunities to promote technological progress and business success. Visual Analytics (VA) aims at enabling the exploration and the understanding of large and complex data sets by intertwining interactive visualization, data analysis, human-computer interaction, as well as cognitive and perceptual science. We propose a design triangle, which considers thr...