During business process re-engineering, business activities are modelled and analyzed. Redefined ... more During business process re-engineering, business activities are modelled and analyzed. Redefined models become the blueprints for improved business activities. The cost to produce models of the organization is high and model accuracy is important. How do models help support understanding of business processes? Should functional business personnel or systems analysts create business models for the organization? How are models validated? From their experience with applying EMS technology and re-engineering techniques with actual organizations, the authors discuss benefits of broad involvement during modeling and improvement idea generation. They discuss their experiences using group technology to support groups during the modeling of business activities using the IDEF modeling method, and discuss aspects of broad involvement that influence the quality of the resulting models.>
Page 1. Reengineering with Enterprise Analyzer D. Vogel, R. Orwig, D. Dean, J. Lee and C. Arthur ... more Page 1. Reengineering with Enterprise Analyzer D. Vogel, R. Orwig, D. Dean, J. Lee and C. Arthur University of Arizona, MIS Department Abstract Researchers at the University of Alizona have developed a flexible set of electronic ...
This paper presents results of an ongoing research effort to support effective user involvement d... more This paper presents results of an ongoing research effort to support effective user involvement during modeling and analysis meetings. Productivity and user participation of traditional group meetings have been limitations imposed by chauffeured facilitation and single-user tools. These tools have been designed for analysts rather than for direct use by non-analyst users. Recently, electronic meeting systems (EMS) modeling tools that allow users to work in parallel to contribute directly during meetings have been developed. Such tools allow more domain experts to participate directly and productively during model development meetings than is possible using the traditional approach. Although previous research has demonstrated that EMS modeling tools may be used to develop some model content, little research had been done on collaborative facilitation methods that employ these tools. This paper presents a comparison of modeling approaches for use with EMS modeling tools and proposes an approach that overcomes significant problems inherent in other approaches. It leverages the productivity enhancement afforded by direct group access and still results in production of complete, integrated, high quality models. This approach allows models to be developed two to four times faster than with traditional modeling support and yet avoids model ambiguities and inconsistencies.
Page 1. Automatic Concept Classifiicat~on 06 Text From Electronic Meetings roup-, specialized com... more Page 1. Automatic Concept Classifiicat~on 06 Text From Electronic Meetings roup-, specialized computer ai& that are designed for use by colIab orative work groups [ 121, has produced measurable productivity gains for major corporations in recent years. ...
Information technology continues to generate increasing amounts of data, most of which is useless... more Information technology continues to generate increasing amounts of data, most of which is useless without scalable methods to collect, analyze, process, and understand it. Visualization is a promising approach to such systemization because it lets users see underlying processes and guide process simulations interactively. However, visualization must be combined with some way to make repositories of text documents more manageable, providing users with a flexible, interactive environment in which to access them. The article describes a prototype tool that addresses these problems for GroupSystems, an electronic meeting system developed at the University of Arizona and installed at more than 1,500 business, government, and university settings. The tool automatically categorizes information, statistically clusters similar documents, and displays the organized document set graphically, providing more at-a-glance information than a typical text based display. Users can thus more easily browse document collections. The tool uses text analysis techniques that aim to identify descriptors and develop an unambiguous internal representation of a document.
During business process re-engineering, business activities are modelled and analyzed. Redefined ... more During business process re-engineering, business activities are modelled and analyzed. Redefined models become the blueprints for improved business activities. The cost to produce models of the organization is high and model accuracy is important. How do models help support understanding of business processes? Should functional business personnel or systems analysts create business models for the organization? How are models validated? From their experience with applying EMS technology and re-engineering techniques with actual organizations, the authors discuss benefits of broad involvement during modeling and improvement idea generation. They discuss their experiences using group technology to support groups during the modeling of business activities using the IDEF modeling method, and discuss aspects of broad involvement that influence the quality of the resulting models.>
Page 1. Reengineering with Enterprise Analyzer D. Vogel, R. Orwig, D. Dean, J. Lee and C. Arthur ... more Page 1. Reengineering with Enterprise Analyzer D. Vogel, R. Orwig, D. Dean, J. Lee and C. Arthur University of Arizona, MIS Department Abstract Researchers at the University of Alizona have developed a flexible set of electronic ...
This paper presents results of an ongoing research effort to support effective user involvement d... more This paper presents results of an ongoing research effort to support effective user involvement during modeling and analysis meetings. Productivity and user participation of traditional group meetings have been limitations imposed by chauffeured facilitation and single-user tools. These tools have been designed for analysts rather than for direct use by non-analyst users. Recently, electronic meeting systems (EMS) modeling tools that allow users to work in parallel to contribute directly during meetings have been developed. Such tools allow more domain experts to participate directly and productively during model development meetings than is possible using the traditional approach. Although previous research has demonstrated that EMS modeling tools may be used to develop some model content, little research had been done on collaborative facilitation methods that employ these tools. This paper presents a comparison of modeling approaches for use with EMS modeling tools and proposes an approach that overcomes significant problems inherent in other approaches. It leverages the productivity enhancement afforded by direct group access and still results in production of complete, integrated, high quality models. This approach allows models to be developed two to four times faster than with traditional modeling support and yet avoids model ambiguities and inconsistencies.
Page 1. Automatic Concept Classifiicat~on 06 Text From Electronic Meetings roup-, specialized com... more Page 1. Automatic Concept Classifiicat~on 06 Text From Electronic Meetings roup-, specialized computer ai& that are designed for use by colIab orative work groups [ 121, has produced measurable productivity gains for major corporations in recent years. ...
Information technology continues to generate increasing amounts of data, most of which is useless... more Information technology continues to generate increasing amounts of data, most of which is useless without scalable methods to collect, analyze, process, and understand it. Visualization is a promising approach to such systemization because it lets users see underlying processes and guide process simulations interactively. However, visualization must be combined with some way to make repositories of text documents more manageable, providing users with a flexible, interactive environment in which to access them. The article describes a prototype tool that addresses these problems for GroupSystems, an electronic meeting system developed at the University of Arizona and installed at more than 1,500 business, government, and university settings. The tool automatically categorizes information, statistically clusters similar documents, and displays the organized document set graphically, providing more at-a-glance information than a typical text based display. Users can thus more easily browse document collections. The tool uses text analysis techniques that aim to identify descriptors and develop an unambiguous internal representation of a document.
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