Beyond predictable workflows: Enhancing productivity in artful business, processes

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 663-682

  Hill, Charles ^a   Yates, Robert ^a   Jones, Carol ^a   Kogan, Sandra L ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

COMPUTER-MANAGED WORKFLOWS; INSTANT MESSAGING; ONLINE SERVICES;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845192951     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: 00188670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.454.0663     Document Type: Article

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