Enterprise-wide management: a paradigm for constructing organizational decision support systems

Presents the enterprise management problem solving paradigm (EMP), a general approach for building organizational decision support systems capable of solving complex enterprise management problems. The authors describe the formalism upon which EMP is based and the fundamental concepts involved with EMP-based problem solutions. In particular, they discuss the cornerstone of EMP systems, the probot (`process robot´), and introduce the Campbell-Whitehair conjecture, which suggests constraints that can be used to effectively reduce the cost of problem solving in many enterprise management domains. They also discuss several research projects that validate EMP, some results from initial efforts to prototype comprehensive enterprise management systems, and some of the more significant issues encountered during these efforts