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Project

Designing enterprises for evolvability: an integrated approach based on fundamental engineering concepts.

Contemporary organizations are operating in a hypercompetitive environment, in which they are faced with challenges such as increasing complexity and increasing change in many or all of their aspects. Current methodologies for the development of information systems supporting these organizations are clearly unable to deal with these levels of changing complexity. Normalized Systems (NS) theory proposes a theoretical framework that explains why current modular structures in information systems are intrinsically limited in terms of evolvability, as well as how modular structures can be built without these limitations, thus exhibiting evolvable modularity. The strategic goal of this project is to develop a contribution to how evolvable modularity as a theoretical framework can support business processes and enterprise architectures and its supporting ICT systems.
Date:1 Jan 2011 →  31 Dec 2014
Keywords:EVOLVABILITY, NORMALIZED SYSTEMS, ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING, BUSINESS PROCESSES, ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, STABILITY
Disciplines:Applied economics, Economic history, Macroeconomics and monetary economics, Microeconomics, Tourism