This book addresses flexibility of both business and information systems through component technology at the nexus of three seemingly unrelated disciplines: service-oriented architecture, knowledge management, and business process management. It presents research on agile, adaptive processes and...

"This book addresses flexibility of both business and information systems through component technology at the nexus of three seemingly unrelated disciplines: service-oriented architecture, knowledge management, and business process management. It provides practitioners and academians with...

The term quot;24-Hour Knowledge Factoryquot; connotes a geographically dispersed team of workers in which members of the team are able to work on specific endeavors on a round-the-clock basis. A professional could work in the US on a standard 9 am to 5 pm basis. At the end of his or her workday,...

The concept of outsourcing has been addressed from different vantage points by various researchers. The ACM Job Migration Task Force analyzed the impact of outsourcing on jobs [1]. This report and others examining the impact of outsourcing on employment have received significant coverage in the...