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Thomas W. Malone, Kevin Crowston, George A. Herman

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Table of Contents


BackCover


Organizing Business Knowledge - The MIT Process Handbook


Part I: Introduction


Chapter 1: Tools for Inventing Organizations - Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes


1.2 The Key Intellectual Challenge - How to Represent Organizational Processes?


1.3 Results


1.4 Discussion


1.5 Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Part II: How Can We Represent Processes? Toward A Theory Of Process Representation


Part IIA: Coordination as The Management Of Dependencies


Chapter 2: The Interdisciplinary Study of Coordination


2.2 A Framework for Studying Coordination


2.3 Applying a Coordination Perspective


2.4 Research Agenda


2.5 Conclusions


Acknowledgments


Chapter 3: A Taxonomy of Organizational Dependencies and Coordination Mechanisms


3.2 Dependencies and Coordination


3.3 Managing Task-Resource Dependencies


3.4 Managing Dependencies among Multiple Tasks and Resources


3.5 Dependencies among Tasks or among Resources


3.6 Conclusion


Acknowledgment


Chapter 4: Toward a Design Handbook for Integrating Software Components


4.2 A Framework for Studying Software Component Interconnection


4.3 The SYNTHESIS Application Development Environment


4.4 Related Work


4.5 Conclusions and Future Directions


Part IIB: Specialization of Processes - Organizing Collections of Related Processes


Chapter 5: Defining Specialization for Process Models


5.2 Process Specialization


5.3 State Diagrams


5.4 Example - Restaurant Information System


5.5 Dataflow Diagrams


5.6 Example - Generating Order Processing Alternatives for E-Business


5.7 Related Work


5.8 Are There Two Kinds of Specialization?


5.9 Conclusions


Acknowledgments


Part IIC: Different Views of Processes


Chapter 6: Process as Theory in Information Systems Research


6.2 The Problem of Multi-level Research


6.3 Processes as Theory


6.4 Illustrative Example - Service Processes in Two Restaurants


6.5 Recommendations for Process Research and Practice


6.6 Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Chapter 7: Grammatical Models of Organizational Processes


7.2 What Is a Grammar?


7.3 Grammar and Organizational Process


7.4 Methodological Considerations of Grammatical Models


7.5 A Grammatical Research Agenda


7.6 Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Part III: Contents Of The Process Handbook


Part IIIA: Overview of the Contents


Chapter 8: What Is in the Process Handbook?


8.2 Overview of the Process Handbook Contents


8.3 A Sample Entry in the Process Handbook


8.4 Generic Models of Business Activities


8.5 The MIT Business Activity Model


8.6 MIT Business Model Archetypes


8.7 Comprehensive Models of Business Processes Developed Elsewhere


8.8 Models of Coordination Processes


8.9 Case Examples


8.10 Classification Structure for Activities


8.11 Other Kinds of Entries


8.12 Conclusions


Part IIIB: Examples of Specific Domain Content


Chapter 9: Let a Thousand Gardeners Prune - Cultivating Distributed Design in Complex Organizations


9.2 Example - Process Innovation (Davenport 1993)


9.3 Example - Reengineering (Hammer and Champy 1993)


9.4 Example - Normal Accidents (Perrow 1984)


9.5 Summary


Chapter 10: A Coordination Perspective on Software Architecture - Toward a Design Handbook for Integrating Software Components


10.2 Motivation


10.3 Overview of the Dependencies Space


10.4 The Concept of a Design Space


10.5 A Taxonomy of Resources


10.6 A Generic Model of Resource Flows


10.7 Timing Dependencies


Part IIIC: Creating Process Descriptions


Chapter 11: A Coordination Theory Approach to Process Description and Redesign


11.2 Theoretical Basis - Processes, Dependencies, and Coordination


11.3 A Coordination Theory Approach to Processes Description


11.4 Discussion


11.5 Conclusion


Part IV: Process Repository Uses


Part IVA: Business Process Redesign


Chapter 12: Inventing New Business Processes Using a Process Repository


12.2 Background - Previous Approaches to Process Innovation


12.3 Our Approach - Analyzing Deep Structure, Then Generating Alternative Surface Structures


12.4 Case Example - Generating Innovative Ideas for the Hiring Process


12.5 Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Chapter 13: The Process Recombinator - A Tool for Generating New Business Process Ideas


13.2 The Process Handbook


13.3 The Process Recombinator


13.4 Contributions of This Work


13.5 Future Work


Appendix - Implementation Overview


Acknowledgments


Chapter 14: Designing Robust Business Processes


14.2 The Challenge


14.3 Our Exception Analysis Methodology


14.4 An Example - The Barings Bank Failure


Acknowledgments


Part IVB: Knowledge Management


Chapter 15: A New Way to Manage Process Knowledge


Chapter 16: Toward a Systematic Repository of Knowledge about Managing Collaborative Design Conflicts


16.2 Our Approach


16.3 Evaluation of the Contributions of This Work


16.4 Future Work


Acknowledgments


Chapter 17: Genre Taxonomy - A Knowledge Repository of Communicative Actions


17.2 Genres of Organizational Communication


17.3 Genre Taxonomy


17.4 Coordinating Information Using Genres


17.5 Prototype of the Genre Taxonomy


17.6 Work Process Analysis Using the Genre Taxonomy


17.7 Conclusions


Acknowledgment


Part IVC: Software Design and Generation


Chapter 18: A Coordination Perspective on Software System Design


18.2 A Coordination Perspective on Software System Design


18.3 The SYNTHESIS Application Development Environment


18.4 Using Synthesis to Facilitate Component-Based Software Development


18.5 Related Work


18.6 Future Research


18.7 Conclusions


Acknowledgment


Chapter 19: The Product Workbench - An Environment for the Mass-Customization of Production Processes


19.2 Analysis of the Requirements and Theoretical Foundations


19.3 The Implementation


19.4 Discussion


19.5 Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Chapter 20: How Can Cooperative Work Tools Support Dynamic Group Processes? Bridging the Specificity Frontier


20.2 A Scenario - Heidi''s Problem


20.3 The Conceptual Framework


20.4 The Specificity Frontier Approach and Prototype System


20.5 Evaluation and Lessons Learned


20.6 Related Work


20.7 Contributions and Conculsion


Acknowledgments


Part V: Conclusion


Appendix: Enabling Technology


The PIF Process Interchange Format and Framework


A.1 Introduction


A.2 History and Current Status


A.3 PIF Overview


A.4 Rationales


A.5 Alphabetic Class Reference


A.6 Extending PIF


A.7 Future Directions


Consolidated References


Index


Index_B


Index_C


Index_D


Index_E


Index_F


Index_G


Index_H


Index_I


Index_J


Index_K


Index_L


Index_M


Index_N


Index_O


Index_P


Index_R


Index_S


Index_T


Index_U


Index_V


Index_W


Index_X


Index_Y


List of Figures


List of Tables


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