Improving Inter-Organizational Processes with Integrated Organization and Technology Development

Volker Wulf (Universität Bonn, Institut für Informatik III, Projektbereich ProSEC, Germany)

Matthias Krings (Universität Bonn, Institut für Informatik III, Projektbereich ProSEC, Germany)

Oliver Stiemerling (Universität Bonn, Institut für Informatik III, Projektbereich ProSEC, Germany)

Giulio Iacucci (Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung (IGD), Germany)

Martin Maidhof (Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung (IGD), Germany)

Ralph Peters (Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung (IGD), Germany)

Paul Fuchs-Fronhofen (MA&T GmbH, Germany)

Bernhard Nett (MA&T GmbH, Germany)

Joachim Hinrichs (Universität Bremen, Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik, Germany)

Abstract: The goal of the ORGTECH-project is to improve the cooperation between two engineering offices on the one hand, and a major German steel mill, on the other. An integrated change process has been initiated which combines the introduction of a groupware application with methods of organization development. This change process draws on the framework of Integrated Organization and Technology Development which is presented first. Then we describe its application in the ORGTECH project. The results of the first project phase are presented and discussed.

Keywords: concurrent engineering, groupware, organization and technology development, requirements analysis, tailoring