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Systems Engineering for Business Process Change

Collected Papers from the EPSRC Research Programme

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  1. Peter Henderson

    1. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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  • A unique collection of papers resulting from the EPSRC research programme on Systems Engineering for Business Process Change

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Business Processes, Legacy Systems and a Fully Flexible Future

    • P. Henderson
    Pages 1-9

  3. Modelling the Co-Evolution of Business Processes and IT Systems

    • B. C. Warboys, R. M. Greenwood, P. Kawalek
    Pages 10-23

  4. Complexity: Partial Support for BPR?

    • E. Mitleton-Kelly
    Pages 24-37

  5. FLEXX: Designing Software for Change Through Evolvable Architectures

    • S. Rank, K. Bennett, S. Glover
    Pages 38-50

  6. RIPPLE: Retaining Integrity in Process Products over their Long-term Evolution

    • D. W. Bustard, D. Greer, Z. He, P. J. Lundy, F. G. Wilkie, R. Oakes
    Pages 51-65

  7. Understanding Change: Using the Patterns Paradigm in the Context of Business Domain Knowledge

    • N. Amin, P. Hall, M. Hinton
    Pages 66-78

  8. Combining Organisational and Technical Change in Finding Solutions to Legacy Systems

    • M. Ramage, C. Brooke, K. Bennett, M. Munro
    Pages 79-90

  9. Connecting Business Modelling to Requirements Engineering

    • A. G. Sutcliffe, G. Li
    Pages 91-105

  10. Interpretivist Modelling for Information System Definition

    • F. A. Stowell, D. Champion
    Pages 106-116

  11. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Impacts and Future Directions

    • B. Light, C. Holland
    Pages 117-126

  12. The Implications of Information Technology Infrastructure Capabilities for Business Process Change Success

    • J. Eatock, G. M. Giaglis, R. J. Paul, A. Serrano
    Pages 127-137

  13. IT Support for the Very High Value-Added Bid Pricing Process

    • M. G. Singh, N. Cassaigne, P. Bussey, V. Papaioannou
    Pages 138-150

  14. Social Viewpoints on Legacy Systems

    • T. Rodden, M. Rouncefield, I. Sommerville, S. Viller
    Pages 151-163

  15. Co-Evolution and an Enabling Infrastructure: A Solution to Legacy?

    • E. Mitleton-Kelly, M.-C. Papaefthimiou
    Pages 164-181

  16. Modelling Legacy Telecommunications Switching Systems for Interaction Analysis

    • M. Calder, S. Reiff
    Pages 182-195

  17. Reverse Requirements Engineering: the AMBOLS Approach

    • A. Alderson, K. Liu
    Pages 196-208

  18. Reconstruction of Legacy Systems for Evolutionary Change

    • E. Burd, M. Munro, P. Young
    Pages 209-221

  19. Handling Legacy IT in Banking by Using Object Design Patterns to Separate Business and IT Issues

    • J. Edwards, I. Coutts, S. McLeod, T. Millea
    Pages 222-238

  20. Legacy System Anti-Patterns and a Pattern-Oriented Migration Response

    • A. Lauder, S. Kent
    Pages 239-250
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About this book

A very large proportion of commercial and industrial concerns in the UK find their business competitiveness dependent on huge quantities of already installed, legacy IT. Often the nature of their business is such that, to remain competitive, they have to be able to change their business processes. Sometimes the required change is radical and revolutionary, but more often the required change is incremental. For such incremental change, a major systems engineering problem arises. The cost and delay involved in changing the installed IT to meet the changed business requirements is much too high. In order to address this issue the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) set up, in 1996, a managed research programme entitled Systems Engineering for Business Process Change (SEBPC). I was appointed as co-ordinator of the programme. The overall aim of this new managed research programme was to release the full potential of IT as an enabler of business process change, and to overcome the disabling effects which the build-up of legacy systems has on such change. As such, this aim addressed a stated objective of the Information Technology and Computer Science (IT&CS) part of EPSRC to encourage research at a system level.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Peter Henderson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Systems Engineering for Business Process Change

  • Book Subtitle: Collected Papers from the EPSRC Research Programme

  • Editors: Peter Henderson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0457-5

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-222-8Published: 30 May 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-1146-7Published: 09 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0457-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 315

  • Topics: Software Engineering, Operating Systems, IT in Business

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