10P. About the Nature of Enterprise Interoperability

Flexibility is one of today’s key business requirements. Transferring flexibility to the enterprise means that the enterprise needs to be able to operate in different ways. Classically this should be realized by a high degree of adaptability. However, you could also foresee and forethink possible ways of doing business and build your company accordingly. We call this state, where an enterprise is constructed in a way that it is able to seamlessly enter collaborations, Enterprise Interoperability. In this paper, we conceive the concept of Enterprise Interoperability. Furthermore, we depict its characteristics and decompose it into partial areas of interoperability that affects enterprises. Finally, we conclude in a framework that comprises and captures Enterprise Interoperability

TOWARDS AN IT SOLUTION TO SUPPORT REFLECTIVE LEARNING AT THE WORKPLACE

The successful management of learning and knowledge has become a critical success factor for organisations in today\u27s knowledge-intensive business world. Reflection on work practice has been identified as one of the central mechanisms of learning at work. It leads to a better understanding of work-related experiences and can guide future behavior. However, it has not been discussed so far how reflection may help organisations to react to changing conditions and business environments and how this kind of organisational learning may be supported by an appropriate Information System. Based on a well-accepted model in reflective learning theory and key findings from a study, the paper contributes to closing this gap by proposing a solution, which can be used even if no other Information Technology support is available within the corporate environment. Accordingly, the development and the prototypical implementation of two applications supporting reflective learning at the workplace are described in detail