ENTERPRISE ORGANISATIONS AND THE NEWENTERPRISE PARADIGMS

摘要

The advent of the new enterprise paradigms of extended, virtual and agile enterprises causes newrnrequirement on organisational concepts and supporting technologies. Inter- and intra- organisationalrnrelations need more and real-time information to support their establishment, deployment andrndiscontinuation. Business-process-based decision support will make a significant contribution to thesernnew forms of enterprise organisation and operation. It will enable the forming of such enterprises byrnproviding detailed analysis and evaluation of partner-business processes and their contribution to thernoverall goals and objectives as well as re-planning and restructuring of the operation in the course ofrnexception handling.rnThe paper is concerned with the organisational aspects and the decision-support for extended andrnvirtual enterprises, drawing from current practice and identifying shortcomings in the current EE&Irn(Enterprise Engineering and Integration) technologies. The work carried out under the jointrnEurope-USA initiative (ICEIMT'97) is analysed especially in the area of representing humans inrnenterprise operations.