This title is of value to businesses from all sectors which are considering their re-engineering and restructuring options, as well as those that are reviewing both their approach to international expansion, and whether there are other ways to penetrate domestic markets which their typical expansion model does not allow them to address.This first edition of Alternative Corporate Re-engineering will be of great assistance to corporations and their counsel, providing valuable insights and guidance to these complicated processes

In order for today's organizations to achieve success, improvement must be generated from within. This book explains how organizations can develop effective improvement plans based upon their unique strengths and corporate objectives, and demonstrates how to most effectively manage or work within the four basic types of corporate cultures.

Analytic philosophers once pantomimed physics, trying to understand the world by breaking it down. Thinkers from the Darwinian sciences now pose alternatives to such reductionism. Wimsatt argues that today’s scientists seek to atomize phenomena only to understand how entities, events, and processes articulate at different levels.

Holonic networks give businesses the agility to rapidly change product and service capabilities to meet rapidly changing market demands, offering the following advantages: leverage, speed, flexibility, fast growth and high profits, sustainable customers, reduced capital requirement, and quick failure recognition. In this book, the authors describe how holonic networks and the virtual companies within them have been implemented in businesses as diverse as Ford, Hewlett Packard, Benetton and R Griggs, the company that makes Doc Marten shoes. Beyond Business Process Reengineering provides a thought provoking and practical examination of business today. For everyone in business being pulled through competition, technological change and their own reengineering efforts, it provides a new and radical alternative to downsizing, restructuring, cost reduction and strategic repositioning.

Software process reengineering has become highly visible over the past several years. Efforts are being undertaken by organizations of all types and sizes as they attempt to deal with the challenges of quality, complexity and competitiveness. As an emerging technology, the effectiveness and potential impact of process improvement efforts have been debated, but not fully tested or validated. At the very core of this technological evolution is the idea that the quality of a software product is highly dependent on the quality of the process used for its development. Successful Software Reengineering examines the most recent theories, models, approaches and processes involved with the concept of software improvement and reengineering.

The objective of this study was to develop a comprehensive understanding of the driving forces that have contributed to difficulty in program delivery in today's constrained fiscal environment.

Researchers have revealed that real expertise, while applied to well-defined tasks with highly circumscribed contexts, often stretches beyond its routine boundaries. For example, a medical doctor may be called upon to diagnose a rare disease or perform emergency surgery outside his or her area of specialization because other experts are not availab

Examines a broad range of research and case studies that throws light on potential, social and human factors which determine the success of information technology.