TY - GEN
T1 - Tools for inventing organizations
T2 - 2nd Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 1993
AU - Malone, Thomas W.
AU - Crowston, Kevin
AU - Lee, Jintae
AU - Pentland, Brian
N1 - Funding Information:
Chris Dellarocas is the primary implementor of the current prototype of the handbook software. This work was supported, in part, by Digital Equipment Corporation, the National Science Foundation (Grant No. IRI-8903034), and other sponsors of the MIT Center for Coordination Science.
Publisher Copyright:
© 1993 IEEE.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - This paper describes a new project intended to provide a firmer theoretical and empirical foundation for such tasks as enterprise modeling, enterprise integration, and process re-engineering. The project includes (1) collecting examples of how different organizations perform similar processes, and (2) representing these examples in an on-line "process handbook" which includes the relative advantages of the alternatives. The handbook is intended to help (a) redesign existing organizational processes, (b) invent new organizational processes that take advantage of information technology, and perhaps (c) automatically generate software to support organizational processes. A key element of the work is a novel approach to representing processes at various levels of abstraction. This approach uses ideas from computer science about inheritance and from coordination theory about managing dependencies. Its primary advantage is that it allows users to explicitly represent the similarities (and differences) among related processes and to easily find or generate sensible alternatives for how a given process could be performed.
AB - This paper describes a new project intended to provide a firmer theoretical and empirical foundation for such tasks as enterprise modeling, enterprise integration, and process re-engineering. The project includes (1) collecting examples of how different organizations perform similar processes, and (2) representing these examples in an on-line "process handbook" which includes the relative advantages of the alternatives. The handbook is intended to help (a) redesign existing organizational processes, (b) invent new organizational processes that take advantage of information technology, and perhaps (c) automatically generate software to support organizational processes. A key element of the work is a novel approach to representing processes at various levels of abstraction. This approach uses ideas from computer science about inheritance and from coordination theory about managing dependencies. Its primary advantage is that it allows users to explicitly represent the similarities (and differences) among related processes and to easily find or generate sensible alternatives for how a given process could be performed.
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U2 - 10.1109/ENABL.1993.263061
DO - 10.1109/ENABL.1993.263061
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85038060679
T3 - Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE
SP - 72
EP - 82
BT - Proceedings - 2nd Workshop on Enabling Technologies
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 20 April 1993 through 22 April 1993
ER -