Business in the information age : heading for new processes /

The industrial society is fast becoming an information society. As a result, many companies are experiencing serious difficulties in developing the new structures required. The increasing use of information technology has a profound effect on markets, products, and processes, as well as the manageme...

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Main Author: Ă–sterle, Hubert (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, [1995]
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Introduction: The Transformation of the Economy
  • Business Transformation and its Roots
  • Business Engineering
  • The PROMET Method
  • Reader's Guide
  • Organization Design: The Goals of Organization Design
  • Process Model
  • Process Vision
  • Output Analysis
  • Flow Planning
  • Workflow Planning
  • Process Management
  • Architecture Planning
  • IT Assessment
  • Customer Relationship Analysis
  • Activity-Specific Analyses
  • Benchmarking
  • Organizational Monitoring
  • Further Reading
  • Data Design: Data Design Objectives
  • Data Model
  • Normalization
  • 'Semantic and Object-Oriented Data Modelling'
  • Keys
  • Integrity Conditions
  • Code Tables
  • Providing Data History
  • Data Integration
  • Implementing the Data Modell
  • Further Reading
  • Function Design: Objectives of Function Design
  • Function Model
  • Derivation of Transactions
  • Checking for Completeness
  • Derivation of Applications and Databases
  • Transaction Network
  • Lists and Messages
  • Designing the User Interface
  • Control Structure
  • Authorization
  • Workflow Design
  • Further Reading
  • Foundations of a Business Engineering Method: Business Engineering Levels
  • Business Engineering Meta-Modell
  • Business Engineering Method.