The Object Advantage: Business Process Reengineering With Object Technology

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Foreword by James Martin Foreword by Dan L. Jonson Preface 1: Business engineering * Introduction * What is business engineering? * Why do we need business engineering? * What does the new company look like? * Business engineering, business (process) reengineering, and business improvement * Risk management * The future of business engineering in the corporate world * Summary * References 2: What is business modelling? * Introduction * What is a model? * What is a business model? * What does a business model look like? * A few words about the traditional way of modelling * Why do we need business modelling? * Who should have a business model, and why? * Working to develop a business model * Summary * References 3: What is object orientation? * Introduction * Object-oriented models * What is an object? * Objects are linked * Objects can form from aggregates * Objects belong to a class * One class can inherit other classes * A summary * Why is object orientation necessary? * Object orientation as a platform for the future * Object-oriented business modelling * Summary * References 4: Object-oriented business engineering - an overview * Introduction * Object-oriented business engineering in context * Business reengineering overview * The reengineering directive * Envisioning * The objective specification * Reversing the existing business * Engineering the new business * Installing the new process * Iteration * Business Improvement * Summary * References 5: Architecture * Introduction * What must you be able to express in a business model? * Internal and external models of business * The use-case model * The object model * Use case versus objects * Associations between use cases * More about use cases * Subsystems * Summary * References 6: Reversing the existing business * Introduction * Why reverse engineering? * Overview * Building a use-case model * Building an object model * Analyzing the result * Summary * References 7: Forward business engineering * Introduction * Building a use-case model * Object modeling * Interaction diagrams * Information system development * Verifying the new business * Summary * References 8: An example * Introduction * What do we want to change * What kind of organization do we have now? * New business processes * An object model of the new business * Work-flow descriptions * Summary * References 9: Building the supporting information system * Introduction * What is software development? * The software-development business-system objects * System development and business development * Procuring the new information-system support * Summary * References 10: Managing object-oriented business engineering * Introduction * Tailoring the method * Project organization and management * Project staffing * Organization staffing * Reviews * Summary * References 11: Scaling up to large businesses * Introduction * Two use-case models at different abstraction levels * Business system areas * Layered business models * Summary Glossary Index

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