Creating shared services requires a coordinated integration of four change programs: business process redesign (BPR), organizational redesign, sourcing redesign, and technology enablement. If managed properly, shared services reduce costs, improve services, and can even generate revenues. However, surveys show that many executives fail to achieve the promised results. In this article, we presen...

A new digital redesign method is proposed for feedback control systems, by which the states in the continuoustime system are completely reserved in the redesigned sampleddata system. The features of the proposed method are: 1) the N-delay control is employed, and the lth plant input is changed Nl times during one sampling period; 2) the states of the redesigned sampled-data system completely ma...

In this paper, we analyze software that we inherited from another party. We analyze its architecture and use common design principles to identify critical changes in order to improve its flexibility with respect to a set of planned extensions. We describe flexibility issues that we encountered and how they were addressed by a redesign and re-implementation. The study shows that basic and well-e...

In the traditional formal approach to system specification and implementation, the software development process consists of a number of refinement steps which transform the initial specification into its correct realisation. This idealised view can hardly capture common situations when a specification changes in a non-incremental way, e.g. when client requirements change or new software technol...

ion. There should be one procedure for each algorithm. Because algorithms should work for different types, procedures must feature a certain degree of abstraction: they must accept input of various types. Most of the algorithmic entities have to be represented in an abstract way. Efficiency. However, abstraction should not lead to a computational burden, since scientific computing requires effi...

Viele WWW-basierte Masseninformationssysteme (WMIS) wurden nicht im Sinne eines systematisch durchgeführten Softwareprojekts mit klar definierten Zielen realisiert. Diese Arbeit richtet sich speziell an Betreiber von WMIS, die bisher sehr unstrukturiert an das Design ihres Informationssystems herangegangen sind. Das präsentierte Vorgehensmodell für ein Redesign basiert auf einer marketing-orien...

OBJECTIVE To present an evidence-based review of the perioperative management of the radical cystectomy (RC) patient in the context of a care redesign initiative. METHODS A comprehensive review of the key factors associated with perioperative management of the RC patient was completed. PubMed, Medline, and the Cochrane databases were queried via a computerized search. Specific topics were rev...

New products drive business. To remain competitive, industry is continually searching for new methods to evolve their products. To address this need, we introduce a new reverse engineering and redesign methodology. We start by formulating the customer needs, followed by reverse engineering, creating a functional model through teardowns. The functional model leads to specifications that match th...

The educational ontologies PIZZA and WINE&FOOD have been widely used to teach ontology methods and tools. However, the two ontologies have remained largely unchanged for many years, despite increasing awareness of foundational principles for good ontology design (GoodOD). Recognizing that the two ontologies are lagging behind such principles, we analysed and re-designed them by strictly adherin...

The medication administration process (MAP) is one of the most high-risk processes in health care. MAP workflow redesign can precipitate both unanticipated and unintended consequences that can lead to new medication safety risks and workflow inefficiencies. Thus, it is necessary to have a tool to evaluate the impact of redesign approaches in advance of their clinical implementation. This paper ...