Collaboration in technology management: a modeling method for workflow management supporting decentralized organizational structures

Author

Dangelmaier, Wilhelm ; Förster, Dirk ; Kress, Stephan ; Wenski, Rüdiger ; Ferreira, João José Pinto

Author_Institution

Heinz Nixdorf Inst., Paderborn, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

36373

Firstpage

62

Abstract

Fast changes in technology make a flexible management of organizational units absolutely necessary. To decrease the effort for process coordination even for decentralized activities, workflow management is seen as a supporting methodology. This paper presents a modeling method supporting planning, execution and control of decentralized organizational structures

Keywords

management; planning; teleworking; COBIP model; business process oriented telework tasks; business process re-engineering; decentralized activities; decentralized organizational structures; modeling method; organizational units flexible management; planning; process coordination; technology management collaboration; telework; telework co-ordination services; workflow management; Application software; Business process re-engineering; Collaborative work; Information systems; Information technology; Office automation; Productivity; Technology management; Telecommunication control; Teleworking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Engineering and Technology, 1999. Technology and Innovation Management. PICMET '99. Portland International Conference on

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

1-890843-02-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.1999.787789

Filename

787789