Reengineering of Information Systems toward ClassicalQuantum Systems

In the coming years, companies will progressively need to add quantum computing to some or all of their daily operations. It is clear that all existing, classical information systems cannot be thrown away. Instead of this, it is expected to add some quantum algorithms working embedded in classical information systems. So far, there is not a systematic solution to deal with this challenge. Thus, this talk suggests a software modernization approach (model-driven reengineering) for restructuring classical systems together with existing or new quantum algorithms to provide target systems combining both computational paradigms. The method highlighted is systematic and based on existing software engineering standards (such as KDM and UML). As a result, it could be applied in industry in a compliant manner regarding the existing software evolution processes

Quantum Software Engineering: A New Genre of Computing

Quantum computing (QC) is no longer only a scientific interest but is rapidly becoming an industrially available technology that can potentially tackle the limitations of classical computing. Over the last few years, major technology giants have invested in developing hardware and programming frameworks to develop quantum-specific applications. QC hardware technologies are gaining momentum, however, operationalizing the QC technologies trigger the need for software-intensive methodologies, techniques, processes, tools, roles, and responsibilities for developing industrial-centric quantum software applications. This paper presents the vision of the quantum software engineering (QSE) life cycle consisting of quantum requirements engineering, quantum software design, quantum software implementation, quantum software testing, and quantum software maintenance. This paper particularly calls for joint contributions of software engineering research and industrial community to present real-world solutions to support the entire quantum software development activities. The proposed vision facilitates the researchers and practitioners to propose new processes, reference architectures, novel tools, and practices to leverage quantum computers and develop emerging and next generations of quantum software

Projectification of the Firm : the Renault Case

Many industrial firms are implementing fundamental changes in their organizations to increase the efficiency of their product development processes. Here we focus on the relations between project management models and the permanent organization and processes of the firm. The case of the French firm Renault is being studied. This firm implemented a transition, from a classical funtional organization in the 1960's to project coordination in the 1970's and autonomous and powerful project teams since 1989. Such advanced project management has deep and destabilising effects on the other permanent logics of the firm (task definitions, hierarchic regulations, carrier management, functions and suppliers relationship). Therefore a phase of "projectification" is now under way to adapt these permanent processes to the new context.project management, organization, organizational learning, automobile industry.

Key Information Systems Issues: An Analysis of MIS Publications

Reports of key MIS issues based on the perceptions of senior IS executives appear periodically in the MIS literature. In this article, we provide another perspective on key MIS issues by examining published MIS articles. A content analysis of MIS articles appearing between 1989 and mid-year 1993 in prominent academic and practitioner journals has been conducted in order to: identify, classify, and prioritize by meta-categories the key issues in MIS publications; to perform a trend analysis of the various meta-categories; and to examine the relevance of issues by providing a comparison with the issues that emerged out of previous key issue studies. Twenty-six key issues are ranked according to their frequency of occurrence as the topic of inquiry in the 630 articles surveyed. Further, a year-by-year analysis of publications from 1989 to 1992 provides some visible trends. The study also reveals differences that exist between the issues that appeared as important in MIS publications and those that appeared significant to the top executives in key issue studies. Reasons for and implications of these differences are offered

Linguistics Landscape: a Cross Culture Perspective

This paper was to aim in discussing the linguistic landscape. It was the visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region (Landry and Bourhis 1997). The linguistic landscape has been described as being somewhere at the junction of sociolinguistics, sociology, social psychology, geography, and media studies. It is a concept used in sociolinguistics as scholars study how languages are visually used in multilingual societies, from large metropolitan centers to Amazonia. For example, some public signs in Jerusalem are in Hebrew, English, and Arabic (Spolsky and Cooper 1991, Ben-Rafael et al., 2006). Studies of the linguistic landscape have been published from research done around the world. The field of study is relatively recent; the linguistic landscape paradigm has evolved rapidly and while it has some key names associated with it, it currently has no clear orthodoxy or theoretical core

Erasmus Syllogisms in Cognition and Facilitation of Organizational Innovation

By use of an empirical example from a planned organizational change program within an international company, we examine how specific characteristics of objects (forms) used to represent ideas –  in interaction with “hard-wired” aspects of human cognition –  may contribute to explain outcomes of translation processes and the extent of alteration of the design of the future organization.  We argue that a type of syllogism judged as invalid by criteria of formal logics – denoted as Erasmus syllogism – could be rather common in reasoning, and that these logically invalid interferences may contribute to significant innovations. Situations where syllogisms are not recognized as invalid by the involved actors seem to be more prevalent when e.g. the actors are unfamiliar with the semantic content (as e.g. abstract symbols). We argue that understanding of semiotic conditions for occurrence of formal logically invalid syllogism, as well as of the neglect of their invalidity by involved actors in ongoing discourses and reasoning, may contribute to a better understanding of how ideas and objects are translated, within organizations as well as in general. The discussion is a contribution to better understanding of why and how ideas are altered as part of ongoing sense making processes within organizations

Finding sense in new reality: From the epoch of machines to the age of uncertainty

This paper deals with a new worldview. Using a historical analysis, this paper describes the original worldview in which the world is a mechanical universe, and puts forward a new worldview in which the world is a biological universe. The objective of this paper is to describe the change in the perception of the new worldview and to express the consequences of that change. It was discovered that important technological changes symbolize a new worldview and can also change this worldview. Information and biology became the fundamental impulses for the creation of a new view of the world. However, the world of organizations is still controlled by mechanical ideology which defines organizations as machines and maintains an economic environment based on a non-cyclical system. The new view of the world therefore requires this to change as it does the way we think

The role of business process reengineering at the trust area of ABC Trust Limited

M.Tech. (Operations Management)In the banking sector, the delivery of impeccable service is one of the main and focal drivers to maintain and increase the customer-based. Therefore, the banks cannot afford to overlook examining their internal structures and processes. Incremental upgrade of a management information system or alignment of processes may prove in the long-term to have a minimal impact upon customer value. Organisations may need to employ business process reengineering (BPR) for the radical redesign of processes to improve performance dramatically in terms of cost, quality, service, flexibility and speed. Process reengineering is about reinvention, rather than incremental improvement. The purpose of this research is the study the role of BPR within the banking environment. To determine the gaps that restricts performance and the address these through process reengineering. The key elements would be to adopt a continuous improvement process, a team-learning culture and the need for strong leadership influence to support the changes. This would place the area of focus on a competitive platform within the industry. Based on the key success factors of process management in terms of process challenges, regulatory compliance was dominate (29.4%), while customer experience was the lowest (3.8%). Participants lacked knowledge of the technical and behavioural aspects of business process reengineering. The leadership style that management has adopted, contradict the staff’s view. Likewise, with communication management has rated their communication with staff much higher compared to how staff receives the message from management. The positive finding is the good level of team effectiveness within the bank. 88.5% of participants agreed to a need to change and/or improve. This reflects that a greater part of the workforce wants to achieve more. Services of a reputable consultant may be employed to educate and guide the bank through the change effort to foster solution-based thinking and client-centric approach. The implementation of a change management process and a communication process is recommended. Through a continuous improvement approach, cross-functional and high performing teams are created that leverage off talents and skills from experience staff. The efforts of BPR would place the bank on a more competitive platform with a sustainable competitive edge

Business Process Reengineering in Organizational Performance in Nigerian Banking Sector

In this study, discussion which is an offshoot of the statement of the objectives, review of empirical studies and the theoretical framework will essentially focus on the strategies to achieve the stated objectives. According to the advocates of Business Process Reengineering (BPR), the ultimate solution for increasing productivity and quality while cutting costs at the same time, putting the customer first has finally been found. Recommendations were proffered for Case-teams to comprise of both managers as well as those who actually do the work and BPR to be ‘owned’ by the organization and not driven by outside consultants, among others. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n5p11