A very large proportion of commercial and industrial concerns in the UK find their business competitiveness dependent on huge quantities of already installed, legacy IT. Often the nature of their business is such that, to remain competitive, they have to be able to change their business processes. Sometimes the required change is radical and revolutionary, but more often the required change is incremental. For such incremental change, a major systems engineering problem arises. The cost and delay involved in changing the installed IT to meet the changed business requirements is much too high. In order to address this issue the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) set up, in 1996, a managed research programme entitled Systems Engineering for Business Process Change (SEBPC). I was appointed as co-ordinator of the programme. The overall aim of this new managed research programme was to release the full potential of IT as an enabler of business process change, and to overcome the disabling effects which the build-up of legacy systems has on such change. As such, this aim addressed a stated objective of the Information Technology and Computer Science (IT&CS) part of EPSRC to encourage research at a system level.
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978-1-4471-0457-5 (9781447104575)
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10.1007/978-1-4471-0457-5
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1 Business Processes, Legacy Systems and a Fully Flexible Future.- 2 Modelling the Co-Evolution of Business Processes and IT Systems.- 3 Complexity: Partial Support for BPR?.- 4 FLEXX: Designing Software for Change Through Evolvable Architectures.- 5 RIPPLE: Retaining Integrity in Process Products over their Long-term Evolution.- 6 Understanding Change: Using the Patterns Paradigm in the Context of Business Domain Knowledge.- 7 Combining Organisational and Technical Change in Finding Solutions to Legacy Systems.- 8 Connecting Business Modelling to Requirements Engineering.- 9 Interpretivist Modelling for Information System Definition.- 10 Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Impacts and Future Directions.- 11 The Implications of Information Technology Infrastructure Capabilities for Business Process Change Success.- 12 IT Support for the Very High Value-Added Bid Pricing Process.- 13 Social Viewpoints on Legacy Systems.- 14 Co-Evolution and an Enabling Infrastructure: A Solution to Legacy?.- 15 Modelling Legacy Telecommunications Switching Systems for Interaction Analysis.- 16 Reverse Requirements Engineering: the AMBOLS Approach.- 17 Reconstruction of Legacy Systems for Evolutionary Change.- 18 Handling Legacy IT in Banking by Using Object Design Patterns to Separate Business and IT Issues.- 19 Legacy System Anti-Patterns and a Pattern-Oriented Migration Response.- 20 Assisting Requirements Recovery from Legacy Documents.- 21 The Systematic Construction of Information Systems.- 22 It's Not just about Old Software: A Wider View of Legacy Systems.- 23 Delivering Business Performance: Opportunites and Challenges for IT.- Author Index.
