IS Based Best Process Practices Propagation in Fractal Enterprises: a Viable Systems Perspective

The aim of the paper is to merge the Viable Systems Approach (VSA) with one of the approaches to achieve the flexibility of the business process which is the bottom-up business process best practices propagation and leveraging these practices at higher organizational levels by appropriate information systems design. This is the first attempt to consider fractal business processes as viable and holistic service systems where similar branches of enterprise are free to develop their own processes and supporting systems

Managing Change in Fractal Enterprises and IS architectures from a Viable Systems Perspective

The paper aims to analyze the concept of viability in fractal enterprises and IS architectures from a holistic and viable systems perspective. The methodology is based on the conceptual framework of the Viable Systems Approach (VSA) whereby the monitoring of fractal enterprise viability is put in place thanks to the “abilities” of government to manage the operative structure efficiently and to govern the system strategically. In particular, by means of systems viability monitoring, fractal enterprises are governed in terms of structure (i.e. component and relational consonance) and system (interaction and performance resonance)