Information-Enabled Organization Transformation and Outsourcing.- Wirtschaftsinformatik: Von den Moden zum Trend.- MEMO: Eine werkzeuggestutzte Methode zum integrierten Entwurf von Geschaftsprozessen und Informationssystemen.- Integrierte Informationssysteme durch Modellierung von Geschaftsprozessen.- Unternehmensmodellierung - Basis fur Reengineering und Optimierung von Geschaftsprozessen.- Geschaftsprozess-Management und Qualitatssicherung am Beispiel des WIS-Projekts.- Strukturanalogien in Informationsmodellen.- Objektorientierte Spezifikation betrieblicher Informationssysteme.- Semantische Objektmodellierung anwendungsorientierter Informations systeme vom Standpunkt des Sicherheitsmanagements.- Vom Informationsmodell zum Anwendungssystem - Nutzenpotentiale fur den effizienten Einsatz von Informationssystemen.- Verfahren zur werkzeuggestutzten Integration von Datenbankschemata.- Formale Validierung von Verdichtungsoperationen in konzeptionellen Datenmodellen.- Simulation hierarchischer objekt- und transaktionsorientierter Modelle.- Aufbau einer gesamtbankweiten Geschaftsdatenbank als Grundlage fur ein globales Steuerungsinstrumentarium des Treasury und Controlling bei Sal. Oppenheim Jr. & Cie., Koeln.- Ein Entscheidungsmodell zur Automatisierung und Standardisierung in betrieblichen Informationssystemen.- Optimierung von Client/Server-Konfigurationen.- Die strategischen Implikationen von Informations- und Kommunikations technologien fur das Bankgeschaft.- Einsatz Neuronaler Netze in der Finanzprognose und -analyse.- Umgestaltung der Geschaftsprozesse und der betrieblichen Anwendungs systeme fur ein weltweit tatiges Unternehmen des Chemie-Anlagebaus.- Kundenorientierte Informationsgestaltung im oeffentlichen Personenverkehr.- Flexible Architekturen und wiederverwendbare Softwarebausteine fur die Anwendung der Zukunft - dargestellt an Systemen der Wurttembergischen Versicherung AG.- Die IV-Strategie des Energieversorgungsunternehmens RWE Energie.- Multinationale Informationsstrategien am Beispiel der Esso A. G.- Perspektiven fur den Einsatz objektorientierter Datenbanksysteme in CIM-orientierten Kosteninformationssystemen.- Datenbankgestutzte, vertragsbasierte Buchhaltung.- Funktionsintegration in heterogenen verteilten Informationssystemen - innovative Konzepte und Fallstudien.- Mobile Rechneranwendungen in dezentralen verteilten Systemumgebungen.- Podiumsdiskussion.- Abhangigkeit als Entscheidungskriterium zwischen internen und externen Organisationsformen der Informationsverarbeitung.- Diversifikationseffekte als Erklarung fur Downsizing und Outsourcing.- Redesign des Siemens-Nixdorf Service und die Erweiterung von Business Process Reengineering zu IT-enabled Business Innovation.- Geschaftsstrategie - Prozess - Informationssystem.- The Use of Worldwide Networking by Global Corporations.- Die Zukunft wird anders sein ! - Informationen verandern die Welt.- Autoren- und Adressverzeichnis.- Sponsorenverzeichnis.

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