Description
The need for enterprise flexibility in an era of rapidly advancing technology, increasing competition, and globalization, is apparent. Flexibility can be thought of as an ability of the enterprise to quickly and efficiently respond to market changes and to bring new products and services quickly to the market place. Beyond this definition, a truly flexible enterprise should proactively change the market through its ability to create new and innovative products and services. The proposed book is intended to provide a conceptual framework of Flexible Enterprise supported by researches/case applications in various types of flexibilities exhibited by a flexible enterprise. The selected papers from a variety of issues concerning the planning and operation of a flexible enterprise are organized into following four parts: I Enterprise and Strategic Flexibility II Organizational Flexibility III Business Process and Information Systems Flexibility IV Operations Flexibility Sushil is Abdulaziz Alsagar Chair Professor (Professor of Strategic, Flexible Systems and Technology Management), and Chair, Strategic Management Group at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, where he is currently Dean (Faculty). He has served as Visiting Professor and delivered seminars in many leading universities; such as, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne, Paris, among others. He is an active researcher and supervised more than 50 doctoral dissertations. He has 18 books to his credit in the areas of Flexibility, Strategy, Systems Thinking, and Technology Management and over 250 papers in various refereed journals and conferences. He is the Founder Editor-in-chief of Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management and serving on the Editorial Boards of leading international journals. Currently he is serving as Independent Director on Boards of RINL, HSCC, and River Engineering. Edward A. Stohr is Professor of Information Systems and Co-Director of the Center for Technology Management Research at the Howe school of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ. Prior to joining Stevens in 2001, Professor Stohr was a faculty member at NYU’s Stern School of Business for over 20 years. During this time period, he served as Chair of the Department of Information Systems and as Director of Stern’s Center for Research on Information systems. His research focuses on the problems of developing computer systems to support work and decision making in organizations. He has published in leading management journals and co-edited three books on information systems. He was visiting professor at INSEAD in France, the University of Business and Economics in Vienna, the Hongkong University of Science and Technology, and Melbourne University. He is currently working on a research grant funded by NASA. Preface I Enterprise and Strategic Flexibility The Concept of Flexible Enterprise Sushil Creating Enterprise Flexibility through Service Oriented Architecture Ozgur Erol, Brian J. Sauser and John T. Boardman Defining Strategic Flexibility Norm Roberts and Garry J. Stockport Flexible Strategy Framework for Managing Continuity and Change in E-government Saboohi Nasim and Sushil Government Regulator’s Role in Managing Competition through Flexibility in Telecom Industry of India: A Policy Perspective Manoj K. Sharma Theoretical Roots of Flexible Strategy Game-card: An Evolving Strategic Performance Management Framework Neetu Yadav and Sushil II Organizational Flexibility Architecting Flexible Organizations Joseph Morabito, Ira Sack, Edward Stohr and Anilkumar Bhate Towards Understanding the Effects of Outsourcing on the Flexibility Dynamic of System of Systems S. Jimmy Gandhi, Alex Gorod and Brian J. Sauser Creating Order out of Disorder through Intuitive Flexibility R. C. Pathak and H.D. Patil Framework for Utilization of Global Resources for Knowledge Creation and Application through Flexible Organizations Babu Lal Flexibility, Controllability and Risk Measurement Metrics in Changing Pattern of Business Environment Arnab Mitra III Business Process and Information Systems Flexibility On How Agile Systems Gracefully Migrate Across Next-Generation Life Cycle Boundaries Rick Dove and Garry Turkington In Pursuit of Workflow Breakthroughs Using Just Enough Process Management Robert Zotti Developing Flexible Business Process Management S ystems Using Modular Computing Technologies Minhong Wang and Kuldeep Kumar Rapid Deployment Approach through Flexible System Design: Breakthrough in Technology Innovation and Process Optimization for eClinical Trials MaryAnne F. Rizk Information Systems Flexibility in Organizations: Conceptual Models and Research Issues Ramaraj Palanisamy IV Operations Flexibility Flexibility via Virtual Cellular System for Variability J Bansee and B. V. Chowdary Role of Manpower Flexibility in Lean Manufacturing T.P. Singh Supply Chain Flexibility: Some Perceptions Bibhushan, Anuj Prakash and Bharat Wadhwa Marketing Flexibilities: Lessons from the Corporate Nripendra Singh
