Reorganizing an Enterprise Thanks to its Information System

Jolita Ralyté, Wanda Opprecht, Michel Léonard

2016

Abstract

Enterprise Information System (IS) is often reduced to a position to solve problems, most often administrative ones, by means of informatics. This paper considers another point of view of IS utility where it creates new opportunities and greatly expands the means to deal with complex change situations. The case studied in this paper is the enterprise reorganization. This exploratory research reveals the role of IS in such a critical situation. It unearths key IS modeling and architecture principles and discovers knowledge and methods of reasoning required to support IS evolution as an underlying way to the enterprise reorganization. It concludes with the emergence of a new research area: the Computer Aided Information Steering.

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Ralyté J., Opprecht W. and Léonard M. (2016). Reorganizing an Enterprise Thanks to its Information System . In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-187-8, pages 567-574. DOI: 10.5220/0005834105670574


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis16,
author={Jolita Ralyté and Wanda Opprecht and Michel Léonard},
title={Reorganizing an Enterprise Thanks to its Information System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2016},
pages={567-574},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005834105670574},
isbn={978-989-758-187-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Reorganizing an Enterprise Thanks to its Information System
SN - 978-989-758-187-8
AU - Ralyté J.
AU - Opprecht W.
AU - Léonard M.
PY - 2016
SP - 567
EP - 574
DO - 10.5220/0005834105670574