Agile Systems with Reusable Patterns of Business Knowledge: A Component-Based Approach

by Amit Mitra, Amar Gupta

Overview

Driven by the need for global excellence and customer value, agility and innovation have become imperative for business. However, most business process engineering and information system approaches address only operational efficiency and economics. This unique book closes this gap. It shows you how innovation can be systematized with normalized patterns of information. You learn how business processes and information systems can be tightly aligned and how they can automatically adapt to change by re-configuring shared patterns of knowledge. This is a practical resource that combines world class experience from industry with the best in academic experience and leading edge research. It will help you design business processes and systems that are both agile and adaptable, coordinate integration of information across supply chains and extended enterprises, reduce time-to-market, and improve computer aided systems engineering and computer aided process engineering tools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580539883
Publisher:	Artech House, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/28/2005
Series:	Artech House Computing Library
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Amit Mitra is a Managing Consultant with Headstrong and specializes in IT governance and architecture. He holds a Black Belt certification in Six Sigma and has extensive industry experience, serving in leadership positions for such prominent companies as AIG, NYNEX, KPMG, and AGS. He has assisted several Fortune 500 corporations to comply with the CMM and to leverage it to improve their best practices. Mr. Mitra is also the vice president of the Data Management Forum and a member of SPIN, New York, an association dedicated to improving the software process. Amar Gupta is the Thomas R. Brown Chair, management and technology, professor of entrepreneurship and MIS, and senior director of research and development at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He was the co-founder and co-director of the productivity from Information Technology (PROFIT) initiative at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. Dr. Gupta is the author of more than 100 technical papers and articles, as well as eight books.

Table of Contents

Preface. Prologue. On Components and the Nature of Reality: Introduction to the MetaWorld. Part 1 - Patterns of Business: Reusable Components of Knowledge - The Universal Perspective: Scope of Business. The Knowledge Machine: A vision of the Future. Part 2 - The Book of Change - On the Nature of Change and Winged Pigs. Managing Emotions Unleased by Change. Governance of Change: Developing and Keeping Organizational Capability. Epilogue: Visions Past and Future. Endnotes. Bibliography.