Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions

Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions
Author: Peter Henderson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1447101359

Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions is a collection of papers resulting from an EPSRC managed research programme set up to investigate the relationships between Legacy IT Systems and Business Processes. The papers contained in this volume report the results from the projects funded by the programme, which ran between 1997 and 2001. An earlier volume, published in 2000, reported interim results. Bringing together researchers from diverse backgrounds in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering and Business Schools, this book explores the problems experienced by IT-dependent businesses that have to implement changing business processes in the context of their investment in legacy systems. The book presents some of the solutions investigated through the collaborations set up within the research programme. Whether you are a researcher interested in the ideas that were generated by the research programme, or a user trying to understand the nature of the problems and their solutions, you cannot fail to be inspired by the writings contained in this volume.

Systems Engineering for Business Process Change

Systems Engineering for Business Process Change
Author: Peter Henderson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1447104579

A very large proportion of commercial and industrial concerns in the UK find their business competitiveness dependent on huge quantities of already installed, legacy IT. Often the nature of their business is such that, to remain competitive, they have to be able to change their business processes. Sometimes the required change is radical and revolutionary, but more often the required change is incremental. For such incremental change, a major systems engineering problem arises. The cost and delay involved in changing the installed IT to meet the changed business requirements is much too high. In order to address this issue the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) set up, in 1996, a managed research programme entitled Systems Engineering for Business Process Change (SEBPC). I was appointed as co-ordinator of the programme. The overall aim of this new managed research programme was to release the full potential of IT as an enabler of business process change, and to overcome the disabling effects which the build-up of legacy systems has on such change. As such, this aim addressed a stated objective of the Information Technology and Computer Science (IT&CS) part of EPSRC to encourage research at a system level.

Systems Engineering for Business Process Change

Systems Engineering for Business Process Change
Author: Peter Henderson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781852332228

This important, state-of-the-art book brings together for the first time in one volume the two areas of Legacy Systems and Business Processes. The research discussed has arisen from the EPSRC research programme on Systems Engineering for Business Process Change, and the book contains contributions from leading experts in the field.Both the consumer and supplier of IT have problems with legacy systems and business process change, so Systems Engineering for Business Process Change will be of great interest to practitioners who are encountering, or likely to encounter, problems with legacy systems and business process change, as well as researchers preparing future research programmes, and those studying system and business evolution.

Software Evolution and Feedback

Software Evolution and Feedback
Author: Nazim H. Madhavji
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2006-05-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Covering conceptual, phenomenological, empirical, technological, and theoretical aspects of the field of software evolution, this text features contributions from the leading authors in the field of software evolution.

The New Industrial Engineering: Information Technology and Business Process Redesign

The New Industrial Engineering: Information Technology and Business Process Redesign
Author: Thomas H. Davenport
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781015616875

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Systems Engineering in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Systems Engineering in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Author: Ron S. Kenett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2019-12-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119513898

An up-to-date guide for using massive amounts of data and novel technologies to design, build, and maintain better systems engineering Systems Engineering in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Big Data, Novel Technologies, and Modern Systems Engineering offers a guide to the recent changes in systems engineering prompted by the current challenging and innovative industrial environment called the Fourth Industrial Revolution—INDUSTRY 4.0. This book contains advanced models, innovative practices, and state-of-the-art research findings on systems engineering. The contributors, an international panel of experts on the topic, explore the key elements in systems engineering that have shifted towards data collection and analytics, available and used in the design and development of systems and also in the later life-cycle stages of use and retirement. The contributors address the issues in a system in which the system involves data in its operation, contrasting with earlier approaches in which data, models, and algorithms were less involved in the function of the system. The book covers a wide range of topics including five systems engineering domains: systems engineering and systems thinking; systems software and process engineering; the digital factory; reliability and maintainability modeling and analytics; and organizational aspects of systems engineering. This important resource: Presents new and advanced approaches, methodologies, and tools for designing, testing, deploying, and maintaining advanced complex systems Explores effective evidence-based risk management practices Describes an integrated approach to safety, reliability, and cyber security based on system theory Discusses entrepreneurship as a multidisciplinary system Emphasizes technical merits of systems engineering concepts by providing technical models Written for systems engineers, Systems Engineering in the Fourth Industrial Revolution offers an up-to-date resource that contains the best practices and most recent research on the topic of systems engineering.

27th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference

27th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference
Author:
Publisher: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE)
Total Pages: 740
Release: 2003
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780769520209

In the COMPSAC tradition, the proceedings spans a broad and diverse range of both technical and non-technical topics, from basic methodology and software process design to such practical concerns as liability, risk and insurance issues.