Creating Agile Business Systems with Reusable KnowledgeAgility and innovation are necessary to achieve global excellence and customer value in twenty-first century business; yet most approaches to business process engineering sacrifice these in favor of operational efficiency and economics. Moreover, the IT systems used to automate and encapsulate business processes are unresponsive to the dynamic business environment. Mitra and Gupta provide insight to close this gap - showing how innovation can be systematized with normalized patterns of information, how business processes and information systems may be tightly aligned, and how these processes and systems can be designed to automatically adapt to change by reconfiguring shared patterns of knowledge. A modular approach to building business systems that parallels that of object oriented software is presented. Practical templates required for accelerating integration, analysis and design are provided. This book will appeal to consultants, analysts, and managers in IT as well as researchers and graduate students in business, management and IT. |
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Contents
The nature of attributes | 112 |
Domains and their expression | 170 |
Key shared components of knowledge 327 | 327 |
List of boxes pageix List of figures | xi |
Preface | xvii |
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aggregate object atomic rules attribute values automation behavior business knowledge business process automation business processes car color Cartesian product Celsius Chapter color preference complex concept configurations convey coordinates define delimited difference scaled domains dimensionality discussed endnote example exclusion sets exist figure 53 finite first flow formatting domains gender inclusion and exclusion inclusion set infinite information content inherited instance identifier irreducible fact joint constraint kind knowledge artifacts lambda calculus length domain lower bound magnitudes mathematical meaning merged metamodel of knowledge metaobject Module nil value nominal domains nominally scaled normalize object class object instance operations order isomorphic ordinal domains ordinally scaled partition perspective physical space polymorphism primary domains properties proximity metric quantitative range ranks ratio scaled attribute ratio scaled domains relationship represent rule expression scaled space scaled state space secondary domains sequence set union specific subtype supertype units of measure validity value constraint value set zero
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Creating Agile Business Systems with Reusable Knowledge |
| Authors | A. Mitra, A. Gupta |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1139460021, 9781139460026 |
| Length | 384 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / General Technology & Engineering / General |
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