August Wilhelm Scheer Books

Start-ups are easy, but... is A.-W. Scheer's retrospective on his experiences founding, growing and taking public a successful, international company. Since its founding in 1985, IDS Scheer has grown to become the world leader in business process performance, with subsidiaries and representatives in 50 countries. This book contains the author's experiences and opinions about founding companies and watching them prosper, about how research and science work, and about the politics of innovation. It was written for entrepreneurs or potential company founders who would like to learn more about the challenges of building a company. It is also written for students who want to find out what it is like to live like a businessperson. Furthermore, the book is written for members of the scientific community, to motivate them to a more business-oriented approach at their research institutions.

Today's business environment is constantly changing: New customer require ments or products, an evolving competition, new IT solutions like EAl or web services, outsourcing opportunities, mergers & acquisitions or changing legal re quirements are just a few reasons for this change. Intra and inter-enterprise proc esses of enterprises have to change accordingly. Therefore organizations have to ensure an efficient and effective business process change management in order to stay competitive and survive on the long term. This is a precondition to achieve and maintain business process excellence. However, the execution of successful change management has been extremely dif ficult. Many initiatives failed because of an unclear scooping and a missing defi nition of deliverables. Only the comprehensive design of the business processes to be improved creates a basis for a focused management of change. Change man agement can then be handled as a process by itself. It becomes measurable and can be controlled. It is an integral part of business process lifecycle management. Key-enabler is the ARIS Toolset which supports all activities of the process and change management: Business strategies, the resulting process specifications and execution as well as the process controlling are executed by using ARIS tools - in the phase of change as well as during the daily operation.

Exploring the art of time management, August-Wilhelm Scheer shares insights drawn from his diverse experiences as a scientist, entrepreneur, and political advisor. The book delves into the dynamics of bold start-ups and corporate strategies, highlighting the challenges faced by politicians. Readers will find practical tips and strategies to enhance their time management skills while maintaining a focus on life's pleasures. This guide promises to empower individuals to achieve more within the same 24 hours, blending professional wisdom with personal anecdotes.

Focusing on the concept of a composable enterprise, the book emphasizes that successful digital transformation relies on organizational changes and innovative business models rather than merely adopting new technologies. It advocates for a decentralized, process-oriented structure that enables rapid adaptation to evolving circumstances. By leveraging platform architectures instead of monolithic applications, businesses can enhance agility, reduce costs, and increase revenue through flexible process development and modification.

Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is a basic approach which examines the relationship between corporate performance and process optimization. How to successfully introduce CPM in practice is demonstrated through project reports from E. ON, British Telecom, Credit Suisse and Vodafone among others. The methods and tools presented here guarantee a continuous and automated monitoring of the corporate performance and enable Business Process Excellence to be permanently established in the company by company-internal and company-external benchmarking. The articles in this book focus on the use of the ARIS Controlling Platform developed by IDS Scheer.

Business process management is the basis for all initiatives like SCM, CRM, ERP, or business intelligence. New component and internet-based software architectures and web services require a solid process management to deliver the expected business success. However, many organizations still struggle to find the right approach to business process management. IDS Scheer delivers with ARIS the framework to meet this challenge successfully. IDS Scheer has successfully applied its ARIS business process management approach at thousands of organizations worldwide such as Intel, Siemens, or the US Navy. This book presents international case studies in various manufacturing and service industries as well as the public sector. It shows how to achieve business process excellence in practice.

The first English-language edition of this book was published in 1989 as "Enterprise-Wide Data Modelling," introducing a widely used enterprise data model. The author has since advanced the representation of application problems through both theoretical modeling languages and practical real-world studies. This evolution has resulted in the second English-language edition, which is essentially a new book, reflecting a stricter focus on business processes compared to the previous edition's functional structure emphasis. This shift aligns with the current trend toward process-oriented organizational structures supported by new information processing methods. A notable difference in this edition is the increased number of pages, reflecting a higher level of detail and thorough problem descriptions. This enhanced detail addresses critical issues for selecting and designing information systems in industrial enterprises, such as product descriptions and CAM factory organization. This approach provides greater realism and facilitates a better understanding of the complexities inherent in industrial enterprises.

Bei der Umsetzung moderner Organisationskonzepte durch Einsatz neuer Techniken der Informationsverarbeitung gibt dieses Buch dem Studenten, Anwender und Wissenschaftler wertvolle Hilfestellungen. Das Buch löst sich von konventionellen funktionsorientierten Betrachtungsweisen und folgt konsequent den betrieblichen Geschäftsprozessen Logistik, Leistungsentwicklung sowie Information und Koordination. Es vermittelt detaillierte und praxisnahe Beispiele (insb. SAP R/3) für das Reengineering veralteter funktionaler Organisationsstrukturen. Aus Sicht der anwendungserprobten „Architektur integrierter Informationssysteme“ (ARIS) wird ein umfassendes Unternehmensmodell entwickelt, das dem Geschäftsprozeßeigner als Referenzmodell für seine konkreten Anwendungen im Industriebetrieb dient.

Der Nutzen der Digitalisierung liegt nicht im Einsatz neuer Technologien für bestehende Prozesse, sondern in organisatorischen Änderungen und neuen Geschäftsmodellen. Das Buch stellt das Composable Enterprise als Leitbild für eine erfolgreiche digitale Transformation und damit verbundene Kostenreduktionen und Umsatzsteigerungen heraus. Was bedeutet das? Ein Composable Enterprise ist dezentral prozessorientiert organisiert. Dadurch kann das Unternehmen schnell auf neue Situationen reagieren, Prozesse und Geschäftsmodelle entwickeln oder verändern. Die Informationssysteme basieren auf Plattformarchitekturen. Ein Paradigmenwechsel zu monolithischen Anwendungen. Branchenkonzepte für Industrie, Consulting und Hochschulen zeigen, wie Organisation und Anwendungsarchitekturen im Composable Enterprise ineinandergreifen. Der Leser erhält Inspiration, Fundament und einen Kompass für die digitale Transformation eines Unternehmens zum Composable Enterprise.