Human-Centered Enterprise Architectures

Computational Organization Design

Volume

Papers from the 1994 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

This paper deals with the problem of structuring the relationship between computing architecture and the architecture of business processes. Structure follows strategy. The strategy that I take is inspired by the notion of pull systems for manufacturing production; I ask these questions: 1. Can we define a pull system between the information system of an enterprise and its business processes? 2. If so, will we achieve improvements as dramatic as pull systems are achieving in manufacturing?