Collaborative engineering of organizational vision, strategy and processes: introduction to the minitrack

The minitrack on collaborative engineering of organizational vision, strategy and processes deals with the support for groups to participatively develop visions, strategies, and processes regarding their organizational systems. It focuses on different tools, techniques and activities that can structure, guide and improve a collaborative design process of organizational systems at different levels: vision, strategy, and processes. This papers for the minitrack gives a good insight into the current state of the field and the opportunities that are still ahead of us. Collaboration between different stakeholders such as business managers and information technology analysts is the central notion in each of the papers. Each paper addresses this topic from a different perspective: simulation, collaboration, communication, and distributed communication.