Co-engineering applications and adaptive business technologies in practice [electronic resource]: enterprise service ontologies, models, and frameworks

✍ Scribed by Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 426
• Series: Advances in Information Resources Management
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Service organizations and enterprises have the dual challenge of embracing externally-driven variation while simultaneously evolving the enabling of information technology operations and systems. The co-engineering method provides a powerful tool for interdisciplinary decision-making necessary for managing complex interactions between layers of external and enabling services.

Co-Engineering Applications and Adaptive Business Technologies in Practice: Enterprise Service Ontologies, Models, and Frameworks provides knowledge that forms the basis for successful co-engineering of the adaptive complex enterprise for services delivery. Intended for practicing professionals, advanced students, and academicians, this book enables understanding of the deeper issues and challenges in applying IT to solve business problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgment......Page 28
Characterization of Service Orientation and the Adaptive Complex Enterprise......Page 30
Adaptive Complex Enterprise Framework: Ontology, Modeling, Co-Engineering Principles, Work Products......Page 81
Governance and Conceptual, Logical and Installed Architecture Alignment Using Work Products and Workflow......Page 144
EA Knowledge for ACE Deployment......Page 188
Strategic Improvement of Non-Routine Services......Page 250
Co-Engineering Business Need and IT Services......Page 275
Co-Engineering IT Services for Lean Operations......Page 300
Management, Monitoring, and Mining of Service Knowledge......Page 328
Relating IT to Service Innovation......Page 362
Research Topics in Complex Systems......Page 380
About the Authors......Page 422
Index......Page 424