Transitioning From Functional Silos to Process Centric - Learnings from Australian Organizations

A Taxonomy of Network Centric Warfare Architectures

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is committed to transitioning, over time, to Network Centric Warfare (NCW). NCW sees the elements of the ADF as “nodes” in a network. The capability of such a force is determined not so much by the individual capabilities of each node, but by the systems properties of the network as a whole. In this paper, we provide a taxonomy of possible NCW architectures, i...

Systems Thinking and Knowledge Sharing Technology

An important role for Internet technology is supporting knowledge development, sharing, and reuse within organizations. This is particularly the case with the activity of improving both individual and organizational performance. There is a need for reflexive systems thinking within organizations, to create learning organizations. While this is useful, it can only reach its full potential if the...

Using Collaborative Visual Analytics for Innovative Industry-inspired Learning Activities

Inspired by leading industry practices, this paper describes an innovative learning activity designed to combine data visualisation and cross-functional collaboration supported by enterprise social media. The activity is structured around sharing, co-creation and negotiation of departmental/disciplinary insights across data silos, using both internal and external data. In addition to giving stu...

Mastering the transition toward business-centric IT: How to best manage your move from consolidated silos to a private cloud infrastructure

Developing customer relationship management (CRM) processes using standard frameworks and MCDM techniques

Organizations have found that functional approach to business destroys flexibility and agility by gaining experience over the time. The main weakness with Task-based organizations is that they can hardly act flexibly and adapt themselves to the changing environment. In today’s' dynamic and competitive business world, organizations focus significantly on managing and improving their business pro...