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Networkability Of Organizations And Business Networks, Rainer Alt, Martin Smits
Networkability Of Organizations And Business Networks, Rainer Alt, Martin Smits
Hubert Oesterle
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The Challenges Of Inter-Organizational Business Process Design – A Research Agenda, Christine Legner, Kristin Wende
The Challenges Of Inter-Organizational Business Process Design – A Research Agenda, Christine Legner, Kristin Wende
Hubert Oesterle
Given the increasing importance of value chain collaboration, business processes need to be more closely aligned across organizational boundaries. Hence, business process modeling and design have to be enhanced and extended to cope with inter-organizational business relationships. Among the challenges that arise are interdependencies between internal and external processes, different process logic and terminology, missing clarification of responsibilities and confidentiality issues. This paper analyzes existing approaches to business process modeling, workflow management and B2B standardization with regard to the specific requirements concerning inter-organizational business process design. It extracts the relevant concepts addressing these requirements and draws up an agenda for …
Soa Adoption In Practice - Findings From Early Soa Implementations, Christine Legner, Roger Heutschi
Soa Adoption In Practice - Findings From Early Soa Implementations, Christine Legner, Roger Heutschi
Hubert Oesterle
Despite the wide range of advantages which many authors associate with the introduction of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), comprehensive SOA implementations continue to be scarce in practice. Consequently, questions arise as to how the concept is adapted in practice. This paper compares the scientific view of SOA concepts with initial practical experience from first SOA implementations. Based on an SOA model which is derived from recent SOA publications it examines SOA realization in four case studies. From the cross-case analysis, the authors derive three focus areas of SOA adoption, a prioritization of SOA design principles as well as typical steps …