[Iefac.list] Introducing New Journal by Inderscience

[Ali Kamrani]

Please announce this to your colleagues. More information regarding the
special inaugural issue will follow. Thanks, Ali.

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International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise  (IJCEnt)

ISSN (Online): 1740-2093  -  ISSN (Print): 1740-2085
http://www.inderscience.com/ijcent

As we stand at the dawn of the 21st century, the ability for an enterprise,
manufacturing or otherwise, to be able persist, grow and survive will be
predicated on its ability to adapt to new conditions, manage the change and
become a de-facto element of a revenue food-chain. From an economic
standpoint, adaptability is a function of being able to generate and affect
new responses quickly. Currently, the state of our toolsets to deal with
enterprise design is analogous to the level of engineering design tools
available to the early aviation pioneers. With the persistent and continued
relaxation of national trade barriers, all enterprises, private or public,
exist and interact within the global market environment. The basis of their
business model is predicated on a product or service that the market
consumers want, the margin that can be commanded is determined by supply and
demand. Variations in the market demand are complex and driven by many
factors such as world events, new fashions or changes in cultural behavior
and changed expectations. The rate and scale of change we face as a global
society today is intense and we are in need of tools and techniques for the
robust and rapid Design of Enterprise to harvest the market opportunities
efficiently. The IJCEnt provides a global forum for exchanging research
findings on new concepts for the systematic integration of methods dealing
with people, process and technology that can lead to the development of
capability for the Design of Enterprise.

Objective: What we are now faced with is the need for new methods and
techniques for the design of enterprise. The enterprise is a people based
"Complex Adaptive System" responding to marketplace patterns and signals,
the response that the enterprise makes determines its quality of life and
continued survival. The economic health of National and Regional economies
is clearly affected by the inductive interactions of these generators of
economic goods by the value generated and taxes paid. Human creativity
facilitated by technology is fundamental to enterprise in the global
marketplace. In the same manner that we have explored product development
during the 19th and 20th centuries using our sciences, in the 21st century
we now have to embark on an exploration of human organization for enterprise
and value to business and society.

Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Market positioning models
    Organizational systems design
    Knowledge based paradigms
    Learning organizations and change management
    Service oriented architectures
    Quality and operations management
    Collaborative technologies
    Complex adaptive systems
    Integrated product and process value chains
    Systems engineering paradigms
    Lean business management
    Integrated supply chain management
    Enterprise reengineering
    Reconfigurable manufacturing and systems
    Technical innovation and entrepreneurship

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail
(details of file formats in Author Guidelines <
<http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31>
http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31> ) to:

Prof. Ali K. Kamrani
Editor-in-Chief
University of Houston
Industrial Engineering Department
4800 Calhoun Street
Houston, TX 77204-4008
USA
 <mailto:akamrani at uh.edu> akamrani at uh.edu

with a copy to

IEL Editorial Office
E-mail:  <mailto:ijcent at inderscience.com> ijcent at inderscience.com


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Regards,

Ali K. Kamrani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director
IE Graduate Program Studies
E206 Engineering Bldg 2
Houston, TX 77204-4008
Tel: (713) 743-4192
Fax: (713) 743-4190
 <http://www2.egr.uh.edu/~akkamran/hmpage.html>
http://www2.egr.uh.edu/~akkamran/hmpage.html



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