The Practical Real-Time Enterprise : Facts and Perspectives /
edited by Bernd Kuhlin, Heinz Thielmann.
- xiv, 559 páginas 127 ilustraciones recurso en línea.
Springer eBooks
Business processes in modern companies -- Inter-company business processes and e-collaboration -- Business process management in real-time companies -- Real value in real time -- Competitive response: a new lens for evaluating company performance -- The Real-Time Enterprise Facts, practices and prospects -- Typical examples from industries -- Building the Real-Time Enterprise at DaimlerChrysler -- Real-time-oriented service architectures in the airline sector -- The Extended Enterprise — Economic integration in real-time -- Strategic perspectives for the hotel industry -- Technological networking -- Technical networking -- Designing more productive business processes with convergent networks -- QoS Architectures and Resource Management in the Intranet -- Technical process support -- Business process evolution in real-time -- I&C Technologies for a Real-Time Enterprise (RTE) -- Enterprise security -- Secure mobile business solutions for real-time enterprises -- Identity & Access Management Faster ROI and improved security through efficient assignment of rights and access control -- Real-time business requires security, trust and availability -- Outsourcing -- Intelligent IT sourcing in the financial industry: background, preconditions and requirements of future IT organization design -- Outsourcing as a strategic management decision -- Less costs, more functionality -- Challenges facing qualification and management -- Visual management -- From CIO to Chief Process Officer -- How to be switched on — without being switched off -- The steps in evolving into an “E-Enterprise” -- The RTE: it starts with early warnings -- Towards the E-Enterprise: standards, networks and co-operation strategies -- The evolution to real-time architecture -- Distributed mini-factory networks as a form of real-time enterprise: concept, flexibility potential and case studies -- Organic IT: cut IT costs, speed up business -- Living and working in a global network -- Delivering the promise. Making it pervasive -- The visions -- Knowledge-based companies — objectives and requirements -- Living and working in a networked world: ten trends -- Swarm organization — a new paradigm for the E-enterprise of the future -- Young professionals look to the communication of tomorrow -- Information and communication in 20XX.
The basic idea of the real-time enterprise is to become quicker. A business which wants to become a real-time enterprise has to acquire three main abilities: - Internal and external data is integrated quickly and in real time in a well-organized company data pool, - Analyses of information in the company data pool can be obtained in real time, across function boundaries and at the touch of a button, - The number of working steps performed in batch mode is shifting dramatically in favor of immediate completion in real time. The issue of communications - or real-time communications - plays a special role here. Studies have shown that processing times sometimes double when necessary communication events are handled in batch mode in the business process and not in real time. In other words, when an activity cannot be completed and lies around for days because an urgently needed partner cannot be contacted. The necessity of acquiring these three abilities has implications for the process-related, technical and organizational aspects of a business that are dealt with in detail in this book.