Ebook: Creating Agile Business Systems with Reusable Knowledge

The authors describe how business knowledge can be identified, encapsulated and shared using a modular approach to building business systems that parallels that of object oriented software. Templates required for accelerating integration, analysis and design are provided. Suitable for consultants, analysts, managers, researchers and graduate students, in IT and business.;Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Boxes; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 What is this book about and who should read it?; 2 What will the information be used for?; 3 Technology's broken promise; 4 Component reuse -- the genesis; 5 Scope of this book; 6 Foundation of knowledge reuse: three pillars; 7 How this book is organized; 1 On the nature of reality and the nature of business; Introduction to the MetaWorld; 1 The nature of knowledge; 2 Modeling the real world; 3 Metaworld of information; 4 Basic metaobject inventory.