 International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise (IJCEnt)
ISSN (Online): 1740-2093 - ISSN (Print): 1740-2085
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As we stand at the dawn of the 21st century, the ability for an enterprise, manufacturing or otherwise, to be able persist, grow and survive will be predicated on its ability to adapt to new conditions, manage the change and become a de-facto element of a revenue food-chain. From an economic standpoint, adaptability is a function of being able to generate and affect new responses quickly. Currently, the state of our toolsets to deal with enterprise design is analogous to the level of engineering design tools available to the early aviation pioneers.
Many traditional businesses today started life as product companies but things change and the world moves on, their once innovative commercial product is now a commodity and their business model is no longer product centric but service centric. The speed with which this occurs is accelerating due to the inherent difficulty and costs in generating truly differentiated products, as opposed to innovating existing developments. Therefore, the business model becomes one of service level agreements and back-to-back contracts with value predicated on performance metrics.
With the persistent and continued relaxation of national trade barriers, all enterprises, private or public, exist and interact within the global market environment. The basis of their business model is predicated on a product or service that the market consumers want, the margin that can be commanded is determined by supply and demand. Variations in the market demand are complex and driven by many factors such as world events, new fashions or changes in cultural behaviour and changed expectations. The rate and scale of change we face as a global society today is intense and we are in need of tools and techniques for the robust and rapid Design of Enterprise to harvest the market opportunities efficiently.
The IJCEnt provides a global forum for exchanging research findings on new concepts for the systematic integration of methods dealing with people, process and technology that can lead to the development of capability for the Design of Enterprise.
 Objectives
For all companies large and small, the competitive landscape is now global in nature, the responses they make to the marketplace will determine their ability to survive and thrive. By analogy with biological organisms, for example a virus, human organisations will have to be adaptive to be able to persist and survive, this has a direct impact on the design of organisation, its people and their information systems.
What we are now faced with is the need for new methods and techniques for the design of enterprise. The enterprise is a people based “Complex Adaptive System” responding to marketplace patterns and signals, the response that the enterprise makes determines its quality of life and continued survival. The economic health of National and Regional economies is clearly affected by the inductive interactions of these generators of economic goods by the value generated and taxes paid. Human creativity facilitated by technology is fundamental to enterprise in the global marketplace. In the same manner that we have explored product development during the 19th and 20th centuries using our sciences, in the 21st century we now have to embark on an exploration of human organisation for enterprise and value to business and society.
The objective of IJCEnt is to bring together a selection of new perspectives that, focusing on intellect as a core resource in producing and delivering value, analyse the new strategies and the organisations that support them. Readership
Interested readers include:
- Chief Executive Officers, their advisors and strategy teams
- Corporate leaders with bottom-line responsibilities
- Management consultants
- Business and industry managers
- Academic researchers
- Company presidents
- Libraries and information centres serving the needs of the above
Contents
IJCEnt publishes high-quality original papers and is double blind peer-reviewed. It presents strategies, resources, methodologies, tools and techniques aimed at unlocking key aspects related to intellect and service technologies, relevant for research and practice. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome as well as qualitative and quantitative studies. Special Issues devoted to important topics within the aims and scopes of the journal are also considered. Subject Coverage
Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Market positioning models
- Organisational systems design
- Knowledge based paradigms
- Learning organisations and change management
- Service oriented architectures
- Quality and operations management
- Collaborative technologies
- Complex adaptive systems
- Integrated product and process value chains
- Systems engineering paradigms
- Lean business management
- Integrated supply chain management
- Enterprise reengineering
- Reconfigurable manufacturing and systems
- Technical innovation and entrepreneurship
Specific Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted). All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted manuscript. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors is available.
All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors,
sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are
available on the Author Guidelines
web-page.
To submit a paper, please go to Submissions of Papers
All papers must be submitted online. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions@inderscience.com,
describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your email the title of the Journal.
Editors and Members of the Editorial Board
Honorary Editor Prof. A. Adnan Aswad
Professor Emeritus
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department
Dearborn, MI 48128
USA Editor in Chief Prof. Ali K. Kamrani
University of Houston
Industrial Engineering Department
4800 Calhoun Street
Houston, TX 77204-4008
USA
akamrani uh.edu
Associate Editors Dr. Saeid Nahavandi
Deakin University
AUSTRALIA Prof. Dr. Ing. Nina Vojdani
Universitaet Rostock
GERMANY Editorial Board Members Prof. Adedeji BadiruAd
Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT)
USA Prof. Manfredi BruccoleriMa
University of Palermo
ITALY Dr. Charu ChandraCh
University of Michigan – Dearborn
USA Prof. Mo JamshidiMo
University of Texas at San Antonio
USA Prof. Siamak KhorramSi
North Carolina State University
USA Dr. Benoit MontreuilBe
Université Laval
CANADA Prof. Kathryn E. SteckeKa
University of Texas at Dallas
USA Dr. L.O.H. Han TongL.
National University of Singapore
SINGAPORE Dr. Shigeki UmedaSh
Musashi Unversity
JAPAN Dr. John M. UsherJo
Mississippi State University
USA Dr. Raj VeeramaniRa
University of Wisconsin-Madison
USA Dr. Micky R. WilhelmMi
University of Louisville
USA Dr. Richard A. WyskRi
Penn State University
USA
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