Towards Agile Operation for Small Teams in Knowledge Intensive Organizations: A Collaboration Framework

Qing-hua, Liu; Gou, Juanqiong; Camarinha-Matos, Luís M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62412-5_22

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“…The identification and resolution of these interdependencies necessitate collaboration among the engineers; however, there is no structured and systematic way of achieving this. As of today, resolutions of these dependencies are done through discussions via phone calls, exchanging (e)mails, chat messages, issue tracker systems, or as part of in-person meetings [35,42,46]. Hence, the management of task executions and dependency resolution is an inevitable element during the development process of industrial CPS.…”

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Integrating Multi-Disciplinary Offline and Online Engineering in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems through DevOps

Mizutani¹,

Ramanathan²,

Mayer³

2021

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Internet of Things

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Industry 4.0 is transforming industrial automation systems into increasingly complex cyber-physical systems (CPS). In particular, there is a need to integrate systems across horizontal and vertical layers across industrial and disciplinary domains. The development of industrial CPS requires not only high-level configuration and control at the execution system level, but also offline and online engineering (OOE) work, including mechanical and electrical engineering of the devices, their installation, networking, and documentation. Using DevOps, a collection of modern software lifecycle management tactics, we propose to build an integrated platform to manage the OOE tasks. Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and Infrastructure as Code, which are key aspects of DevOps, coordinate the building, testing, and deployment of software services. To bring the corresponding benefits of pure software systems to industrial CPS, we integrate engineering tasks using distributed version control and the W3C Web of Things. As a proof of concept, we implemented the concept for a mock system that includes the OOE tasks in a process automation scenario. The DevOps platform provides a structured transfer and exchange of engineering knowledge among stakeholders involved in industrial CPS. CCS CONCEPTS• Software and its engineering → Software development process management; • Information systems → Information integration; Web applications; • Human-centered computing → Collaborative content creation.

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Section: Offline and Online Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Multi-Disciplinary Offline and Online Engineering in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems through DevOps

Mizutani¹,

Ramanathan²,

Mayer³

2021

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Internet of Things

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“…In this context it is important to devise approaches and mechanisms to identify (make visible) and characterize emerging CNs. Examples in this direction include [31] focused on recognition and modeling of collaborative situations, and [32], which addresses the agile operation of small collaborative teams in the context knowledge organizations.…”

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The Evolution Path to Collaborative Networks 4.0

Camarinha-Matos

2021

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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The last two decades have witnessed considerable boost in emergence of a networked society, reflecting the increasing growth in hyperconnectivity among the organizations, people, smart machines, and intelligent systems. This trend was enabled by advances in ICT and more specifically in computer networking. In this context, new forms of coworking and collaboration in networks, composed of distributed, autonomous, and heterogeneous entities have emerged, which first led to the formation of Collaborative Networks (CN) as a new discipline, and then followed by series of milestones leading to its gradual evolution.Nowadays CNs play a key role in the ongoing process of digital transformation in industry and services. Although it is relatively young, a number of "generations" can be identified through the last decades for the CN discipline.We are now at the beginning of what can be identified as the Collaborative Networks 4.0, characterized by features such as: hybridization in CNs, collaboration between humans and intelligent autonomous systems, collaborative distributed cognitive systems, reflecting on collaborative accountability, handling ethics and coping with risks and disruptions faced in CNs, managing large amounts of collaborative data, monetization of collaboration, creating a collaboration culture, supporting collaboration creativity, handling mass collaboration, and supporting collaborative value creation through new business models, among others.The IFIP WG 5.5, through its annual conference the PRO-VE, which is now in its 21st edition, has played a determinant role, along these two decades. It has contributed to shaping, promoting, and extending the CN research and development community and its practices; thus, consolidating this area, and identifying and introducing new directions and preserving it as an active research agenda.

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“…The modern business world is experiencing a wave of new organizational forms that pose a challenge to its management, such as Knowledge Intensive Firms (KIFs). KIFs are of growing importance worldwide (Liu et al, 2020), among other reasons, because it makes significant contributions to the growth of the global economy (Balthu & Clegg, 2021). According to a report by the National Science Board, National Science Foundation (2020), KIFs make contributions to the global economy with more than $ 9 billion in production, representing 11% of the World Gross Domestic Product.…”

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Unpacking the Organizational Culture as a Sustainable Distinctive Competence in Knowledge Intensive Firms: The Harvestplus Case in Colombia

Hinestroza

Amaya

Peralta-Hernández³

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Business: Theory and Practice

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Knowledge-Intensive Firms are a relevant research and practice field because there is much interest in factors promoting their competitiveness. Scholarly literature has noted that organizational culture is a resource is related to the achievement of competitive advantages. Nevertheless, organizational culture at Knowledge-Intensive Firms, has been scarcely analyzed regarding how it is configured and what effects it has. To explain how organizational culture at HarvestPlus, as a Knowledge-Intensive Firm, becomes a distinctive competency, a qualitative study case study design was developed. The results indicate that the predominant culture is adhocratic, it has evolved according to the different HarvestPlus phases and is a sustainable distinctive competence due to it is valuable, difficult to imitate and therefore unique. This research will be useful for scholars and practitioners of this type of organization to understand the usefulness of coordinating and integrating the organizational culture, to leadership behaviors, human resources practices and strategic alliances management, to create strategic resources, as HarvestPlus has done.

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Towards Agile Operation for Small Teams in Knowledge Intensive Organizations: A Collaboration Framework

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

Integrating Multi-Disciplinary Offline and Online Engineering in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems through DevOps

Integrating Multi-Disciplinary Offline and Online Engineering in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems through DevOps

The Evolution Path to Collaborative Networks 4.0

Unpacking the Organizational Culture as a Sustainable Distinctive Competence in Knowledge Intensive Firms: The Harvestplus Case in Colombia

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