The application of business process modelling to organisational analysis of concurrent engineering environments

Technovation

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-162

  Haque, Badr ^a   Pawar, Kulwant S ^b   Barson, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Concurrent engineering; Organisational analysis

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037301855     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4972(01)00103-1     Document Type: Article

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