Recent advances in engineering collaboration tools and internet technology have enabled the distribution of product development tasks to offshore sites and global outsourcing partners while still maintaining a tightly connected process. Most firms in complex engineering industries are indeed...

The Unicist Business Process Model uses the model defined with the Unicist Business Modeler and transforms it into strategic actions and organizational design. Thus the business process becomes defined and it is possible to introduce business objects and systems to install the necessary...

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...

The paper focuses on the topic Advanced Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (AFMEA) along with Behavior Modeling (BM) and gives general guidance in the application of the technique to analyze and improve the manufacturing process. In order to improve process efficiency, product quality through...

Das Buch basiert auf langjährigen Erfahrungen in der Durchführung von Business-Process-Management (BPM)-Projekten. Die Autoren reduzieren die Komplexität des Prozessmanagements auf eine praxistaugliche Methode. Aus der Vielzahl von BPM-Lösungen und Modelltypen werden nur diejenigen...

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...