Thomas W . Malone , Robert Laubacher and Chrysanthos Dellarocas

Tools for inventing organizations:

This paper describes a novel theoretical and empirical approach to tasks such as business process redesign and knowledge management. The project involves collecting examples of how different organizations perform similar processes, and organizing these examples in an on-line ìprocess handbook". The handbook is intended to help people: (1) redesign existing organizational processes, (2) invent n...

Software Tools for a Process Handbook

Workflow management systems are becoming important not only as key technology in their own right but they are gaining leverage as a key application of database management systems. One of the main issues of workflow management systems, and thus implicitly of database management systems, is their support for flexibility to cope with frequently changing requirements in an organization. This has be...

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ROMA: A framework to enable open development methodologies in climate change assessment modeling

Models play a central role for climate change policy makers, but are often so complex and computationally demanding that experts are required to run them and interpret their results. This reduces stakeholders’ ability to explore alternative scenarios, increases perceptions of model complexity and opacity, and can ultimately reduce public confidence in these models. In this article, we introduce...

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