AFEI ENTERPRISE DESIGN & PERFORMANCE
- Integrated Supply Chain
- Creating the Virtual Enterprise
- Performance Measures
- Benchmarking
- Building the E-Business Enterprise
- Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Modeling
- Process Modeling
- Other
 "Enterprise
Design & Performance" involves all the activities which organizations
("enterprises") perform to improve productivity, gain
and maintain competitive advantage, optimize resources, deliver
quality products and services, and meet customer expectations and
demand. These can include traditional activities such as reorganization,
concentration on core products and competencies, niche marketing,
acquisition, merger, and new technologies. Enterprise Engineering
also includes new techniques and methods such as business process
re-engineering, continuous process improvement, total quality management,
enterprise architecture, and enterprise integration.
In a continually changing and unpredictable competitive environment,
the Enterprise Engineer addresses a fundamental question: "how
to design and improve all elements associated with the total enterprise
through the use of engineering and analysis methods and tools to
more effectively achieve its goals and objectives". The complexities
of the modern enterprise and the challenging environment in which
the enterprise exists demand a new type of engineering professional.
The Enterprise Design & Performance Domain of AFEI has been created
to address these holistic issues related to improving the efficiency
of the entire enterprise.
Enterprise Design & Performance has many purposes, all related
to re-engineering business procedures, improving business operations
and improving systems development productivity and effectiveness.
These include organizational planning, application development,
information systems planning and systems re-engineering. The following
sections offer an introduction to the principles and characteristics
of Enterprise Engineering and its many benefits. Organizations that
adopt EE find that it:
- Provides a framework for managing change
- Promotes corporate strategy
- Facilitates communication and creates synergy
- Maximizes corporate expertise
- Improves the quality of information systems development
- Streamlines operations
- Increases the shared use of information
- Protects current system investments
- Reduces system maintenance
- Saves time, effort and money
AFEI INFORMATION INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY DOMAIN
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Product Data Management/Product Information Management
- Web Commerce
- Networks and Security
- Standards and Interoperability
- Internet Service Provider
- Object Oriented Technology
- XML
- Simulation & Modeling
- Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals
- Other
Providing the right information in the right form at the right
time and at the right place: requires information sharing systems
and integration platforms capable of handling information transactions
across heterogeneous environments. We will be dealing with environments
which consists of heterogeneous hardware, different operating systems
and monolithic software applications (legacy systems). Also, environments
which cross-organizational boundaries and link the operation of
different organizations on a temporal basis and with short set-up
times and limited time horizon (extended and virtual enterprises).
The Information Integration Technology Domain of AFEI has been created
to address and explore the latest relevant issues, technologies
and techniques in this area.
LEADERSHIP AND ENTERPRISE CHANGE MANAGEMENT
One thing that distinguishes today's successful enterprise, business
and government, is the ability to adapt to changes in environment,
in markets, and in customer expectations. In order to survive into
the 21st century, an enterprise must make change management an integral,
enterprise-wide process. The nation's newest management "gurus"
urge enterprise executives and managers to think in radical terms,
often recommending dramatic overhaul of entire operations at a single
stroke.
Enterprise Engineering and Integration, which applies equally to
well-established and newly-forming enterprises, responds to the
fundamental business drivers of the 21st Century and beyond: migration
to "agile" production (whatever one produces), globalization
of markets, changing labor pools, and volatile political and business
environments. The Leadership and Enterprise Change Management Domain
of AFEI has been created to address and explore the latest issues
and techniques associated with Leadership and Enterprise Change
Management .
ENTERPRISE MARKET TRENDS
- E-Vision
- Partnerships
- Other
If the ability to adapt to changes and trends in environment, in
markets, and in customer expectations is a critical thing that distinguishes
today's successful enterprises, then the ability to be on the forefront
of and continuously informed about these inevitable changes, trends
and opportunities will be crucial. The Enterprise Market Trends
Domain of AFEI has been created to proactively identify, address
and promulgate useful information regarding these changes, trends
and opportunities.
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