Agile systems with reusable patterns of business knowledge: a component-based approach

Driven by the need for global excellence and customer value, agility and innovation have become imperative for business. However, most business process engineering and information system approaches address only operational efficiency and economics. This unique book closes this gap. It shows you how innovation can be systematized with normalized patterns of information. You learn how business processes and information systems can be tightly aligned and how they can automatically adapt to change by re-configuring shared patterns of knowledge. This is a practical resource that combines world class experience from industry with the best in academic experience and leading edge research. It will help you design business processes and systems that are both agile and adaptable, coordinate integration of information across supply chains and extended enterprises, reduce time-to-market, and improve computer aided systems engineering and computer aided process engineering tools. Moreover, the book offers expert guidance on facilitating standards, prototyping for continuous improvement, designing enterprise information systems software, and achieving process maturity to rapidly absorb and utilize innovative technology for competitive advantage. The basic premise of the book is that meanings are patterns of information. This groundbreaking volume lays the foundation of a new computing paradigm in which computers manipulate meaning, not blind symbols. This book is the nexus between service oriented architecture, business process management, knowledge management and business process automation.