CALL FOR PAPERS
eCommerce-Induced Reengineering
Minitrack of
I3E - The first IFIP conference on E-Commerce, E-Business,
E-Government
Zurich, Switzerland, 4-5 October, 2001
(http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/I3E-conference/)
Scope of Minitrack:
The increasing forces of intensifying global competition,
continuing customer demands, and the significant revolution in
digital communication technologies have together put pressure
upon many organizations to switch their operations into the
e-business world by making use of Electronic Commerce (EC)
technologies such as the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW)
as media for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer
(B2C) transactions. This process potentially facilitates the
expansion and development of new linkages among various business
partners around the globe. It also speeds up information flow
and enables information and knowledge sharing with other
entities in a âboundarylessâ business supply chain. These
new innovative business models require a real departure from a
functionally-based modus operandi to one which is based on
agility, flexibility, responsiveness and mass customization.
Therefore, it is no longer sufficient for organizations to rely
on the use of piecemeal technologies, working in isolation and
super-imposed on rigid structures and systems. Instead,
organizations should expand their ânetworkabilityâ and
âintegrationâ capacities by managing adequately
relationships, processes and transactions along the
organizational supply chain. Business process reengineering
(BPR) is one of the most widespread approaches to enable such an expansion.