Taivo Kangilaski

Interoperability issues in virtual organization - how to proceed?

A manufacturing process is not carried out by a single enterprise anymore. Companies realize the necessity to focus on their core competencies and become involved with others in order to fulfill the requirements of market. This trend involves the renewal of enterprise organization to integrate partnership between several enterprises, which stress the importance of information and communication technology. The current work focuses on the organizational information technology aspects taking account of the interoperability issues in virtual organization.

Virtual organization and supply chain management

In the center of supply chain management initiatives are the series of applications that synchronize demand and supply, manage inventory, ensure service-level commitments, and provide greater visibility into the manufacturing operations. At the same time the concept of Virtual Organization (VO) challenges the way industrial production systems are planned and managed. The topic is analyzed in context of vertically integrated public limited company Eesti Energia AS (EE) located in the Republic of Estonia where for the companies that are related with electricity grid management is implemented software in the framework Tehnonet (TN), which uses concept of VO

Communication as a Crucial Element for Enterprise Architecture Management in Virtual Organization

New business condition and current economical situation are forcing companies to rethink their way of operating. The rapidity of managing changes has become increasingly important. To be more competitive, companies are forming Virtual Organizations (VO) where short-term spontaneous collaboration activities are rather common. Such interoperability leads to increasing organizational architectural complexity. As the VO interoperability availability depends on quality of companies Enterprise Architecture approach belonging to ecosystem, the current article propose focus points for architecture management in VO.

Enterprise Architecture management in Virtual Organization

Concept of Virtual Organization (VO) is one enabling factor for todays Small and Mid sized Enterprises (SME) to rebuild their position in new market condition. As the businesses are highly supported by Information and Communication Technology (ICT), nowadays it is highly important to manage it in a way that will minimize the possibility that ICT will be the bottleneck which makes constraints for new cooperation. In current article, the approach of Enterprise Architecture management is analyzed in context of VO-s.

Maturity Models as Tools for Focal Player Forming Virtual Organizations

Supply chain management is the practice of coordinating the flow of goods, services, information and finances as they move from raw materials to parts supplier to manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer. Thus it is important for organisations to build up their partner networks supporting their long-term demand forecasts for capacity requirements. Constructing such an ecosystem, the companies need some supporting framework. The current article proposes maturity model based approach that could assist companies in their decisions.

Virtual organization for power network management

The concept of virtual organization challenges the way industrial production systems are planned and managed. Basically, a virtual organization is temporary alliance of enterprises that come together to share skills and resources in order to respond better to business opportunities and whose cooperation is supported by a computer network. To support this paradigm, several research directions need to be applied, whose requirements and partial results are presented in this paper. The results are presented in the framework named Tehnonet (TN), which is partly implemented in Eesti Energia AS (EE). EE is a vertically integrated public limited company located in the republic of Estonia. The applications work on TN today covers the entire voltage transmission and distribution management in the Estonian Power System

Power network management in software

The article gives the principles how to build up software for handling power network management, using the concept of enterprise resource management (ERM). The problem is analyzed in context of Eesti Energia AS. located in the Republic of Estonia.

ICT and business alignment in Virtual Organization

The concept of virtual organization (VO) challenges the way industrial production systems are planned and managed. Basically, a VO is temporary alliance of enterprises that come together to share skills and resources in order to better respond to business opportunities and are enterprises whose cooperation is supported by computer network. At the same time, the importance of information and communication technology (ICT) has been growing and has caused the situation where ICT functional area profoundly affects the organizational performance. The current article focuses on the topic, how to align business goals and ICT activities in VO.

Dynamics of Partner Network

Communication is a crucial element in business environment. It ties companies together to work on a common business goal, as well as destroys existing business connection. Thus it is important to understand dynamics of partner networks. The current article analyses Partner Network lifecycle and it maturity aspects.

Enterprise Architecture Management-Based Framework for Integration of SME into a Collaborative Network

In current research it is suggested to use the Enterprise Architecture (EA) management approach, which enables to decrease the duration and to improve the efficiency of IS integration process. Developed framework for business process implementation is adapted to the requirements of the Virtual Collaborative Network of Enterprises. The key business processes should be described internally based on common standard for all collaborative partners and it is suggested to use the ISO 9000 Quality Management standard as a base. This process is followed by analysis of inter-organizational business processes and possible process modeling solutions are also outlined in the paper. The implementation and management of collaborative business processes decrease the risks for the new potential customers and partners on the way to successful collaboration. After the collaborative business process is described it is possible to proceed with the implementation of collaborative IS.