Abstract
For many companies, especially small and medium sized firms (SME), planning and implementing infrastructures for Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) that are in line with a convincing long term strategy is too much of a challenge. This paper presents a method that supports companies with re-designing their business processes in order to take advantage of the opportunities offered by E-Commerce. For this purpose, it provides concepts to analyse and design corporate strategies as well as various modelling languages for describing and analysing business processes, resources, IT artifacts etc. In addition to that, the method provides generic strategy networks and a library of reference business processes. They allow prospective users to avoid the effort of developing strategies and new organizational settings from scratch. The modelling language that is used to describe business processes allows for transforming a business process into a corresponding workflow schema, thereby supporting the realisation of a supporting workflow management system.
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Frank, U. (2004). Model-Driven Planning and Development of Infrastructures for E-Commerce. In: Wang, S., et al. Conceptual Modeling for Advanced Application Domains. ER 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3289. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30466-1_62
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