Thomas Hess

Hubert Österle

Volker Bach

Leo Brecht

An increasing number of companies regard Business Process Redesign (BPR) as a significant means of improving their competitive position. The initial euphoria is being superseded by a more pragmatic assessment. This book demonstrates how a systematic, practical yet creative procedure can lead to more reliably successful BPR projects. Case studies and investigations support the superiority of a systematic, method-based approach as opposed to an "intuitive" one.Consequently, before the start of a project a method must be selected which corresponds to the strategic goals of the project and is suited to the company environment. This book formulates the central principles and criteria for this, which are derived from practical experience. A procedural model and checklists help the reader to define what he requires from the method. From these criteria are then derived suitable BPR tools. Of particular importance here is the underlying cost-benefit analysis.The book describes over a dozen BPR methods and as many tools within a uniform framework. This ensures comparability and allows correlation with project-specific requirements. Particular attention is paid to method-tool combinations that are designed for combined use.Immer mehr Unternehmen sehen im Business Process Redesign (BPR) ein wesentliches Mittel, ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu steigern. Die anfängliche Euphorie weicht heute einer sachlicheren Betrachtung. Das Buch zeigt auf, warum ein systematisches, ingenieurmäßiges, aber gleichzeitig kreatives Vorgehen sicherer zu erfolgreichen BPR-Projekten führt.Fallstudien und empirische Untersuchungen untermauern die Überlegenheit des systematischen, methodisch unterstützten gegenüber dem "intuitiven" Ansatz. Dementsprechend ist vor Projektbeginn eine Methode auszuwählen, die der strategischen Zielsetzung des Projekts entspricht und in das Unternehmensumfeld paßt. Das Buch formuliert dafür die zentralen, aus der Praxis abgeleiteten Grundsätze und Kriterien. Ein Vorgehensmodel

Integrated Methods and Software Tools for Business Process Redesign

Enabling Systematic Business Change

Jean-Bernard Bru

The authors study a non-autonomous, non-linear evolution equation on the space of operators on a complex Hilbert space. They specify assumptions that ensure the global existence of its solutions and allow them to derive its asymptotics at temporal infinity. They demonstrate that these assumptions are optimal in a suitable sense and more general than those used before. The evolution equation derives from the Brocket-Wegner flow that was proposed to diagonalize matrices and operators by a strongly continuous unitary flow. In fact, the solution of the non-linear flow equation leads to a diagonalization of Hamiltonian operators in boson quantum field theory which are quadratic in the field.

Diagonalizing Quadratic Bosonic Operators by Non-Autonomous Flow Equations

Petra Vogler

Prozessorientierte Lösungen zwischen Knowledge Portal und Kompetenzmanagement

Business Knowledge Management in der Praxis

Luigi Delle Site

This book provides a broad description of the development and (computational) application of many-electron approaches from a multidisciplinary perspective. In the context of studying many-electron systems Computer Science, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics are all intimately interconnected. However, beyond a handful of communities working at the interface between these disciplines, there is still a marked separation of subjects. This book seeks to offer a common platform for possible exchanges between the various fields and to introduce the reader to perspectives for potential further developments across the disciplines. The rapid advances of modern technology will inevitably require substantial improvements in the approaches currently used, which will in turn make exchanges between disciplines indispensable. In essence this book is one of the very first attempts at an interdisciplinary approach to the many-electron problem.

A Multidisciplinary View

Many-Electron Approaches in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics

Volker Bach

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