Enterprise modeling of a project-oriented fractal company for SMEs networking

Role of Semantic Web in the Changing Context of Enterprise Collaboration

“…The life cycle of virtual enterprise designed to explore these issues is mainly divided into 4 stages, as shown in Figure 2 market, enterprises publish their skills, capability, expertise and competence that they are able to offer. Awareness of these profiles is a beneficial step to envisage and plan execution of new missions, to make a better appraisal of human capital, to initiate and mediate partnerships and to enhance organizational performance (Canavesio, Martinez 2007). Currently, enterprise competence profiles are usually captured and published as unstructured text documents, such as web homepages, industrial profiles, business cards etc (Linthicum 1999).…”

“…Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian The shift from industrial economy to information economy in the current global market has brought an enormous increase in competitiveness, leading to the adoption of new organizational models (Shapiro, Varian 1998). The virtual enterprise model is one of the best strategic moves for enterprises seeking for global reach without compromising their agility and independence (Canavesio, Martinez 2007). The term virtual enterprise was coined in the 1990s, when communication technology and management theory compounded to focus business strategy on core competences and outsourcing of all noncore activities.…”

Analysing Enterprise Models from a Fractal Organisation Perspective - Potentials and Limitations

“…An example is the pattern described by [10], which identifies monitoring, analyzing, reporting, planning, executing as the main functions in project-oriented fractal companies. Such process patterns for fractal organisations could serve as templates for analysing models in order to detect selforganisation structures.…”

“…• Dynamics (in other sources named as dynamics and vitality [10]) -(1) the fractals are networked via an efficient information and communication system. They themselves determine the nature and extent of their access to data; (2) the performance of a fractal is subject to constant assessment and evaluation.…”

Intelligent Laboratory Resource Supply Chain Conceptual Network Model with Process and Information Integration, Visibility and Flexibility

“…It minimizes system-wide cost and satisfies service level requirements. Canavesio and Martinez [8] proposed a conceptual project-based SME network model using decentralized and autonomous organizational units, named as fractal, to achieve a high degree of flexibility to environmental changes. The model was implemented by logic programming language Prolog; the simulation results tell emergent behavior and constraints.…”