Index - Organizing Business Knowledge The Mit Process Handbook [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

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Malone, Thomas W., 443, 446

Management science, audience from, 12

Managers, as audience, 3, 12

Managing of information flows, in computer science, 80

of producer-consumer relationships, 54–56, 60, 62

of shared resources, 52–54, 60

of simultaneity constraints, 56–57, 60

of task-subtask dependencies, 57–58, 60, 72

Market(s), and information technology, 65–69, 76

Marketing Management (Kotler), 242

Market research, for usability, 56

Market transactions, evaluation of, 65

Markov models, and syntactic models, 208

Marriott Hotels, 32, 244, 391, 446

Mass-customization, 516

production workbench for, 523, 524

Maximal execution set, for dataflow diagram, 168

Maximal execution set semantics, 134, 135, 156n, 162

Mechanism design theory, 81

Meets dependencies, 327

Memoryless events, 310, 312

''Mercenaries, intellectual,'' 68

MES conditions, 168

Meta-process, conflict management, 455–57, 458

Meta-process information, 448

Methodological considerations, of grammatical models, 206–11

Methodologies, 31

Michaelangelo, on creation as choice, 143

Microsoft Access, 25. 420

Microsoft's daily build, 21, 388, 408

Microsoft Windows, 25

MIL (Module Interconnection Languages), 125

Miller, George, 249

Minimal execution set semantics, 134, 156n, 157–58

MIT Business Activity Model (BAM), 231–35

deriving of, 235–38

and other models, 240

MIT Business Model Archetypes, 238–40

MIT Center for Coordination Science (CCS), 7, 124, 384, 404, 448, 466, 476

MIT conflict repository, 463. See also Design conflict management repository

MITD eBusiness Awards, finalists for, 384

MIT Process Handbook. See Process Handbook

MIT Process Handbook project. See Process Handbook Project

MIT Scenario Working Group, 516

MIT Sloan School of Management. See Sloan School of Management, MIT

Modeling design methods, 261. See also Design methods

Modeling languages, 157

Models

of business processes developed elsewhere, 240–43

of coordination processes, 243

verifying of (process description technique), 363

Models, generic. See Generic model of resource flows; Generic models of business activities

Module Interconnection Languages (MIL), 125

''Molecules'' (reusable systems dynamics components), 256

Monsanto, 391

Motorola, 33, 395, 397

Moves, in organizational action, 197

Multi-level research, problem of, 177–78

Multi-Media Handbook for Engineering Design,6–7

Multiple actors, 367

Multiple task or resource dependencies, 96–102

Multiple theories, 190

Mutual adjustment, for coordination, 82

Mutual exclusion dependencies, 114, 323, 326