Concurrent Enterprising Toward the Concurrent Enterprise in the Era of the Internet and Electronic Commerce

It then examines less theoretical questions - among them, how to implement this new business model and how companies can move to the concurrent enterprise paradigm in creating a concurrent business environment. And it introduces a methodology for enterprises willing to maintain or even improve their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pallot, Marc, Sandoval, Victor (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 New Business Trends
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. The global market approach
  • 1.3. New productive paradigms
  • 1.4. From the information to knowledge age
  • 1.5. The knowledge factor and the global infrastructure
  • 1.6. Business strategies
  • 2 Existing Approaches
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. The shared enterprise
  • 2.3. The intelligent enterprise (IE)
  • 2.4. Agile manifacturing (AM)
  • 2.5. Computer Integrated manufacturing (CIM)
  • 2.6. Intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS)
  • 2.7. The CIM-OSA Model
  • 3 Virtual Enterprise(VE) and Related Approaches
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Toward a concept of VE
  • 3.3. Tha characteristics, functions and bases of VE
  • 3.4. An illlustration of the VE concept
  • 3.5. Related cases
  • 4 Concurrent Engineering (CE)
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Definition and motivations
  • 4.3. CE implementation needs
  • 4.4. The integrated working environment and product information
  • 4.5. Available methods, information technology (IT) and Tools
  • 8.5. Capability assessment
  • 8.6. Virtual Shared Spaces
  • 8.7. Conclusions
  • Conclusions
  • 4.6. CE related projects
  • 4.7. Conclusion
  • 5 Assessment of The Enterprise Approaches
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2. Enterprise approaches: a general view
  • 5.3 Why and how approaches must be used in concurrent Enterprise
  • 5.4. Weaknesses and cooperation assessment
  • 6 Business Cases and Electronic Commerce
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2. Business cases
  • 6.3. Electronic commerce (EC)
  • 6.4. Networking documents
  • 7 Concurrent Enterprise
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2 Cooperation, collaboration and concurrency
  • 7.3. Concurrent enterprise and electronic commerce
  • 7.4. From traditional projects in partnership to concurrent enterprise
  • 7.5. Virtual enterprise and concurrent enterprise
  • 7.6. Concurrent enterprise as a tactical approach
  • 7.7 Virtual prototyping
  • 7.8. Conclusion
  • 8 Concurrent Enterprising
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Concurrency reference model
  • 8.3. Concurrency and collaboration capability assessment
  • 8.4. Assessment considerations and approaches