 Erik Brynjolfsson, Marshall Van Alstyne, Abraham Bernstein, Amy Renshaw, Tools for Teaching Change Management: The Matrix of Change and Supporting Software, In: 12th Annual Conference of the International Academy for Information Management (IAIM'97), February 1997. (Conference or Workshop Paper)
 
One of the key advantages of information technology is its ability to support new organizational forms. The task of shifting between old and new forms, however, can be a difficult, time consuming, and haphazard process (Davenport, 1993, Davenport and Stoddard, 1994; Hammer, 1990). Interactions among various work practices can lead to numerous unanticipated side effects as mangers alter individual practices without considering whole systems of work. In particular, the importance of complementarities among different practices has been formalized mathematically in the economic literature (Milgrom and Roberts, 1990). However, practicing managers and students have had difficult in applying these insights.
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Abraham Bernstein, Christian P. Schucan, Document and Process Transformation During the Product Life-Cycle, In: International Working Conference on Information and Process Integration in Enterprises - Rethinking Documents (IPIC), 1996. (Conference or Workshop Paper)
Based on our experiences in the corporate banking department of the Union Bank of Switzerland we are convinced that business, IT and organizational aspects have to be considered in an integrated way while developing IT-strategies. IT-strategies are crucial for an effective (business) development because they identify the constant and the changing parts of an IT infrastructure during product life cycle. In order to achieve this, we state three design invariants: the deep structure of the process, the dependencies within the process, and the information handled. We believe that identifying these invariants will lead to a deeper understanding of product-life-cycles. |
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Abraham Bernstein, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Thomas W. Malone, John Quimby, Software Tools for a Process Handbook, IEEE-Data Engineering, Vol. 18 (1), 1995. (Journal Article)
This paper provides a progress report on the development of software tools in the Process Handbook project currently underway at the MIT Center for Coordination Science. We begin with a brief overview of the project as a whole. Then we focus on software tools emphasizing aspects that relate to workflow control. Finally, we conclude with a brief description of future avenues of research. The process handbook tools help (a) redesign existing organizational processes, (b)invent new organizational processes that take advantage of information technologyand finally (c) automatical ly generate software to support organizational processes. An important related goal is the ability to (d) import and export process descriptions from and to other process modeling architectures. The approach combines in a novel way the ideas of process decomposition, process specialization, and the coordination of dependencies between activities. The paper presents an overview of findings from multiple implementations of this approach. |
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Jörg-Uwe Kietz, Lübbe, Marcus, An Efficient Subsumption Algorithm for Inductive Logic Programming, In: ICML94, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, USA, 1994. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
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Jörg-Uwe Kietz, Saso Dzeroski, Inductive Logic Programming and Learnability, SIGART Bulletin, Vol. 5 (1), 1994. (Journal Article)
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Jörg-Uwe Kietz, Katharina Morik, A polynomial approach to the constructive Induction of Structural Knowledge, Machine Learning, Vol. 14 (2), 1994. (Journal Article)
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Abraham Bernstein, Specification and Implementation of Workflows in Banking Environments, 1994. (Other Publication)
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Abraham Bernstein, Dokumentserver - Dokumentmanagement im Umfeld heterogener (UNIX)-Applikationen, 1993. (Other Publication)
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