
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
byThomas W. Malone, Kevin CrowstonandGeorge A. Herman (eds)
ISBN:0262134292
The MIT Press
2003
(619 pages)
This handbook presents the key findings of a multidisciplinary research group that has worked for over a decade to lay the foundation for a systematic and powerful method of organizing and sharing business knowledge.
Introduction
Tools for Inventing Organizations — Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes
How Can We Represent Processes? Toward A Theory Of Process Representation
Coordination as The Management Of Dependencies
The Interdisciplinary Study of Coordination
A Taxonomy of Organizational Dependencies and Coordination Mechanisms
Toward a Design Handbook for Integrating Software Components
Specialization of Processes – Organizing Collections of Related Processes
Defining Specialization for Process Models
Different Views of Processes
Process as Theory in Information Systems Research
Grammatical Models of Organizational Processes
Contents Of The Process Handbook
Overview of the Contents
What Is in the Process Handbook?
Examples of Specific Domain Content
Let a Thousand Gardeners Prune — Cultivating Distributed Design in Complex Organizations
A Coordination Perspective on Software Architecture — Toward a Design Handbook for Integrating Software Components
Creating Process Descriptions
A Coordination Theory Approach to Process Description and Redesign
Process Repository Uses
Business Process Redesign
Inventing New Business Processes Using a Process Repository
The Process Recombinator — A Tool for Generating New Business Process Ideas
Designing Robust Business Processes
Knowledge Management
A New Way to Manage Process Knowledge
Toward a Systematic Repository of Knowledge about Managing Collaborative Design Conflicts
Genre Taxonomy — A Knowledge Repository of Communicative Actions
Software Design and Generation
A Coordination Perspective on Software System Design
The Product Workbench — An Environment for the Mass-Customization of Production Processes
How Can Cooperative Work Tools Support Dynamic Group Processes? Bridging the Specificity Frontier
Conclusion
Enabling Technology