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Business Process Reengineering- taking a holistic customer-focused systems view and changing the organisation.
Encompassing: "the vision thing", understanding business processes and workflow along
the supply chain; business, CIM and IT-based analysis; organisation theory
and HRM; IT support through the internet, computer supported co-operative
working (CSCW), and the possibility of teleworking.
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Business Development Agencies
Related Business/IT topics
Business Schools
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Universities/Research Organisations/Programmes
Universities:
- University of St.Gallan's Institute for Information Management
- M.I.T. Reengineering Project (US). Project highlights, milestones, plans, communications, feedback, links to Tech Talk articles on reengineering. Keywords: human resources, reengineering, survey, administrative simplification.
- SME IDEF BPR requirements methodology in 6 volumes as a result of a 2 year EPSRC research grant for £100 from Andi Mart, MABS Research Groups, School of Computing, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, UK.
- AIAI (Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute) University of Edinburgh. The site contains: introduction, applications (aerospace, manufacturing, petroleum, and an index of AIAI projects), projects, affiliate programme, training services, clients (industry & governmental), and publications, newsletter, technical focus, associate programme, software products, groups & people, and job opportunities at AIAI.
- The Informatics Process Group researching into "active" modelling of organization processes at Manchester University. The searchable site links to research group staff, publications, case studies & projects. Keywords: software process modelling, CSCW, process enactment systems.
- Co-operative Systems Engineering Group, Computing Department, Lancaster University. Keywords: systems design process, virtual reality, technical reports, research projects, tools & techniques, events.
- Electronics Research Group at the University of Aberdeen.
- Enterprise Integration Laboratory, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Toronto (Canada). the site contains : overview, theories (enetrprise modelling, mutli-agent systems, enterprise information architectures, co-ordination theory, & constraint-directed scheduling), applications (enterprise engineering, design-in-the-large, integrated suplly-chain-management), staff members, other research-related WWW sites, and research papers.
- Milan Polytechnica Workflow Management research (Italy). Keywords: overview, workflow, modelling, projects, publications, staff.
- Loughborough University Telecommunications and Computer Human Interactions Research Centre (LUTCHI) at the Department of Computer Studies. The site lists details of research 10+ projects, 19+ grants & 45+ reports, and associated staff. Keywords: future interactive computer systems, suuport systems for professional people at work. multi-media, interface design, digital audio broadcasting, mobile users, intelligent user interfaces, agent-based systems, complex systems, computer support for human creativity.
Research Organisations:
- Workflow Management Coalition. The site contains: overview, standards, newsletters, press releases, country contacts & membership, events, links & documents (in Adobe PDF & Microsoft Word formats). Keywords: workflow, document management, image management, electronic mail systems, relational & object database systems, standards, reference model, process definition tools.
Research Programmes:
- Innovative Manufacturing Initiative collaborative industry-led programme involving the EPSRC, ESRC, BBSRC, DTI and DoE. This site gives an overview of the programme, a business process focus, industrial sector tagets [integrated aerospace manufacturing, responsive processing, construction as a manufacturing process, land transport (manufacturing for mobility) ], and contact points.
- Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) collaborative project between Japan, EU, Efta, Australia, and US (Finland). Keywords: holonic manufacturing systems, next generation manufacturing systems, clean manufacturing, process industries, global manufacturing, R & D.
- Customer Service Network
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Related Business/IT topics
CSCW:
- MIT's Centre for Coordination Sciences (US). The searchable site includes: what's new, electronic commerce & amrketing, working papers, inventing the organisations of the 21st century, research overview, people, Q & A about co-ordination science, opportunities for industry participation & related WWW sites.
- UK DTI CSCW Programme Projects
- SYCOMT - System Development and Cooperative Work: Methods and Techniques
- The VIRTUOSI Project (Support for Virtual Organisations) has 2 Web sites - VIRTUOSI at Nottingham and VIRTUOSI at Lancaster
- ICW Brainstorm provide further information on behalf of the Awareness Programme associated with the DTI CSCW Programme. This includes basic information on the other 3 projects CD, CORECT, & DUCK.
Enterprise Modeling
- CIMOSA- CIM Open System Architecture (Poland). The site lists CIMOSA news, events, applications & publications. Keywords: computer integrated manufacturing, open systems architecture, integration
- University of Toronto's Enterprise Integration Laboratory (Canada). Keywords: TOVE ontologies, management, process interchange format, enterprise modelling.
- IFIP/IFAC task force on Enterprise Integration (Australia). Keywords: history, highlights, conference, enterpise integration, relationship with BPR.
- Enterprise Integration Clearinghouse (Australia). The site lists: 14+ major projects & places, 6+ enterprise modelling languages & meta-models, 5+ enterprise engineering tools, 5+ enterprise reference architectures, 1 enterprise reference model, 4+ infrastructures for enterprise integration, 5+ events, 3+ standardisation sites, 4+ references & bibliography, plus teaching/ training, mailing lists & other references.
HCI
- WWW Virtual library- Human Computer Interaction (US). This site includes: events, organisations, groups, projects & people, publications, bibliographies, newsgroups & mailing lists. Keywords: Human Computer Interaction, interactional hardware & software, matching models, task level, design & development, organisational impact.
- A Business Researcher's Interests: Human Computer Interaction (US). The site contains: 20+ books, papers & bibliographies, 15+ programs & institutes, 10+ other resources on HCI.
- British HCI Group. The sites lists events, business & industry HCI links, news, web resources (8+ publications, projects, umbrella organisations, jobs, education/ teaching).
Intranet For Enterprise Integration
- David Stroms white paper for Attachmate Corp (Nov.16, 1996) Creating Private Intranets: Challenges and Prospects for IS. Keywords: intranet trends, TCP.IP, LAN, WAN, HTML, SMTP, open standards, corporate access only, transition/change management, enterprise deployment, exmaples of intrnates ( Federal express, US postal service, PartNet parts locator service).
- The searchable The Intranet Journal. This great site contains 100s of links to: news & features, soundings, intra-views, links, FAQs, experts corner, design tools, intranet 101, intranet toolshed.
- The Intranet Resource Center. A great looking site with 10s of links to: web reports, web seminars, case studies, webmaster magazine, calender of web events, webmasters notebook, web central, webmaster inner circle, web technology, and other web resources.
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Business Schools
UK:
- London. This attractive site provides information on: masters programmes (including MBA), executive education, faculty & research, services, news & information. There are also Adobe PDF format files on: executive education update, institute of finance & accounting newsletter, the library serials list, and the library market research report.
- Loughborough. This attractive searchable site contains information on: background, contacts, undergraduate programmes, postgraduate programmes (including MBA), management development centre, the banking centre, research activities, and staff.
- Cranfield. This attractive site contains information on: gradute programmes, executive development, management research, contacts (faculty, administration, cranfield management association, directory of expertise), information resources, annual review, what's new (press releases, diary dates, job opportunities, MBA/MSc information), and students pages.
- Birmingham. This attractive site contains 100s of useful links to: background, new sites, accounting, audit, online reporting, management, information technology, tax, marketing, legal, government/ public sector, news, personal finance, small business information and research, and publishers.
Europe:
- Nijenrode (Netherlands). This stunning site contains information about the business school, degree programmes, executive development, research interests (management research centre, organisational learning and change management, marketing, retailing & distribution, European Institute for Business Ethics, Macroeconomics Research and Forecasting, research paper series), and the internet.
Elsewhere:
- MIT Sloan(US)(50k). This searchable, attractive and content-rich site contains: 100's of abstracts of reports, overviews of 15+ research centres, information on staff, students, programmes, and services. Keywords: computational research, economics, management, financial services, entrepeneurship, finacial engineering, organisational learning.
- Harvard(US). This searchable, attractive and content-rich site contains information on: academic programs, research, alumni, faculty, library, and the Harvard Business Review.
- California at Berkeley Haas(US). This stunning site contains 100s of links, and information on: academic programmes, computing, internet, & library resources, staff, alumni, and students, news & events.
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Manufacturing Engineering University Departments
UK:
- Loughborough. This attractive and searchable site includes information on: contacts, degree programmes, research activitites (information and simulatneuous engineering, manufacturing systems integration (institute), manufacturing organisation, manufacturing processes, and electronics interconnect) a gallery of CAD images, and departmental staff.
- Warwick This site includes information and a few links to: degree programmes, research groups (advanced technology, controller area networks, CADCAM, computational design analysis, rapid prototyping, simulation, SME support, Sun European Centre of Execellence), and other links.
- Bath. This site includes information on: staff, research, virtual manufacturing, geometric modelling and forging.
- Birmingham This attractive site contains information on: undergraduate & postgraduate studies, postgraduate research, research (applied mechanics, computational modelling, manufacturing technology, product engineering, thermofluids), and staff.
Elsewhere:
- Penn State(US) College of Engineering. The site contains information on: academic programs, research centres (intelligent transportation systems, engineering education, facilities engineering, computer vision), services, calender, library
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Official Bodies
- The US Library of Congress - access to over 70 million documents
- The United Nations - facilities, conference updates, summaries of activities, and news releases
- CCTA UK Government
- BIS.gov.uk(40k). The site contains information on: what's new, background, speeches & press releases, managing in the 90s, Invest in Britain, Information Society Initiative, government offices, overseas trade services, exports, Queen's awards.
- EPSRC. An easily navigable site linking to: what's new (expecially new initiatives), programme areas, corporate publications & press notices, research grant proposal forms and guide, a database of contacts, and national & international links.
- ESRC. An attractive site containing information on: research progammes, contacts, publications, and research themes.
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Publishers of Books/Journals/Magazines
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