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Автор: David M.Levermore, Cheng Hsu
Год: 2006
Издание:
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Страниц: 190
ISBN: 0387345663
Collaboration is a "watch word" and a recognized outcome of the increasing integration in business and industry. The Industrial Revolution brought us "standardization" and as it continues to evolve, "standardization" has widened into the concept of "rationalization." In recent times, "flexibility" has been added to the evolving nature of industry, which includes such developments as flexible manufacturing, CIM, concurrent engineering, supply chain management, etc. But the next step in this evolutionary process is developing out of the newly IT-enabled practices such of E-business, E-engineering, and on-demand business and it is these IT-enabled practices that brings the concept of "collaboration" to the next level of industrial evolution. "Collaboration" here means cooperation among independent enterprises towards some common tasks and even cooperation among distributed systems and processes within the same enterprises. There are some complex organizational and technical forces behind...
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