ECOLEAD
EXPLORING
COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED
ORGANISATIONS
IN ECOLEAD
Mitja Jermol
based on Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
Nova Gorica/Gorizia, 6-7 October 2005
ABOUT ECOLEAD
ECOLEAD
• ECOLEAD - European Collaborative
Organisations LEADership Initiative
• Proposal Number: IP 506958
• Number of partners: 20
• Duration: 4 years
• Total costs: 14 Mio (10 Mio)
• Work load: 1262 person months
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CONSORTIUM
ECOLEAD
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VTT Technical Research Center – (Coordinator) - FIN
UNINOVA – Institute for the development of new technologies – P
UvA – University of Amsterdam – NL
CEC – Concurrent Consulting – I
Software AG – E
BIBA – Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science - DE
Gruppo Formula – (Enterprise Application Solution Providers) - I
TXT – eSolutions – (SW and system integration vendor) SCM, CRM - I
Virtuelle Fabrik – association of 100 companies in CH, DE, A, FL
ENCIMA – SCM developer – DE
UFSC - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – BR
JSI - SI
CTU - Czech Technical University in Prague - CZ
CERTICON - CertiCon a.s. –SW developer - CZ
ITESM – Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey – MEX
Logica CMG – IT Consultant - NL
France Telecom – F
Siemens – Siemens Program and System Engineering (PSE) – DE
AIESEC – International Student Organisation
ComArch – Software developer – PL
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CONSORTIUM
ECOLEAD
UvA
UvA
UFSC
JSI
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CONTEXT
ECOLEAD
Collaborative
networked
organization
Business ecosystem
E-Business
Breeding environment
Virtual lab
Virtual organization
Professional
virtual community
Virtual enterprise
Virtual team
Virtual community
Extended enterprise
Community of practice
Supply chain
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CONTEXT
ECOLEAD
Common
references
& goals
Collaborative
Networks level ?
Products
Inter-enterprise level
Intra-enterprise level
Shop floor level
Cell Level
70’
80’
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90’
00’
Services
HISTORIC CONTEXT
NEW
DISCIPLINES
ECOLEAD
Collaborative Networks
Enterprise Engineering
Manufacturing / Industrial Automation
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CONTEXT ...
ECOLEAD
Window
blinds
Window
sensors
Lighting
Heating
refrigerator
Alarm
Microwave
GPS
Intelligent
car
Intelligent
cloth
Smart card
Mobile
computing
PDA
Mobile
phone
Ubiquitous or
Pervasive computing
Ambient intelligence
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Wahsing
machine
CONTEXT ...
ECOLEAD
70’s
80’s
90’s
.MMS
Robot languages
. PLC
Cell & languages. Cell Inffrastructure
.Fuzzy control
Petri nets + control
. Simulation / Automatic programming
Shop-floor
.Soft computing
.MAS, Agentificationn
.Virtual reality
Year
.Java / Jini
.Tele-operation
.Tele-presence
.IDEFs
.Machine learning, Data Mining
.RDBMS
.OOP, UML, Software components
.Planners
.Business process modelling / Re-engineering
.Reference models: CIMOSA, PERA, GIM, GERAM
.STEP / EXPRESS
.KBMS - rules, frames, reactive programming
.MAS, Mobile agents
.Hybrid systems
.Ontologies
Enterprise integration
. OAG model
Infrastructure
.Workflow, WfMC
IntraEnterprise
EJB, RMI, UEML, ...
.EDIFACT
.Middleware: CORBA, DCOM,Java/ JINI, XML ...
.Federated systems
.E-business
.Hypermedia
.Safe communications
InterEnterprise
VE/VO Infrastructure
Level
Widening scope ... Multiplication of tools
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A LARGE “HISTORY” OF VE/VO
PROJECTS
ECOLEAD
ESPRIT
IST
INCO
ALFA
IMS
NIIIP
National
programs
VE (Past)
Virtual Organizations
CE-NET
CHAMAN
COBIP
COVE
COWORK
DELPHI
ELSEwise
EVENT
FREE
GLOBEMAN 21
ICAS
LogSME
BIDSAVER
Business Architect
ECAMP
JASMINE
STARFISH
eLEGAL
VIVA
SOSS
E-ARBITRATION-T
ENTER
AESOP
B-MAN
MARKET MAKER
OBELIX
PLEXUS
GLOBEMEN
MARVEL OUS
MASSYVE
PLENT
PRODNET II
SCM+
SPARS
VEGA
VENTO
VIRTEC
X-CITTIC
...
Accompanying
Measures
THINKcreative
VOSTER
CE-NET II
ALIVE
VOSTER
UEML
VOmap
Collaboration
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EXTERNAL
ECOLNET
E-COLLEG
DYCONET
WHALES
SCOOP
LENSIS
LINK3D
Supply Chain
Management
ADRENALIN
APM
CHAINFEED
DAMASCOS
CO-OPERATE
SMARTISAN
Others
SMART
SMARTCAST
PATTERNS
SOL-EU-NET
DISRUPT IT
… & more
TeleCARE
FETISH-ETF
…
COLLABORATION vs TRANSACTIONS
ECOLEAD
Enterprise
e-Commerce
Virtual Enterprise /
Virtual Organization
B2B
B2C
VE / SC
Enterprise
Enterprise
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Customer
COLLABORATION
ECOLEAD
• Network intelligence
– from Egoism to Altruism
– from Self to Group
– from Taking to Sharing
IQ
EQ
individual, cognitive
complex reasoning
Self awarenes
& empathy
NQ
(Joy Palmer)
connecting, integrating
& sharing
Is the society ready for collaboration?
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COLLABORATION
ECOLEAD
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GOING NET-COLLABORATIVE
ECOLEAD
What do you
mean by VO ?
And... ? ...
And ... ?
How shall I
behave in a
CNO?
What do I benefit
from it ?
How do I
measure it?
Can I establish my
VO in 1 day?
Which tools
do I need?
Where can I
buy them?
?
So, is this simply
a management
issue?
What about my “life
maintenance”?
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PVC
VO
Business
Ecosystem
VE
TECHNOLOGICAL TURBULENCE
ECOLEAD
Fast evolution of ICT technologies with reduced life cycles and
the need to cope with technologies with different life cycles
and at different stages of the corresponding life cycle represent
a major difficulty
Enabling and disabling technologies?
=> some efforts are too biased by short-term technologies,
which might represent an obstacle for non-ICT SMEs
TCP/IP, CORBA-IIOP, HTTP, RMI, SOAP
J2EE Framework, CORBA Framework, ActiveX Framework EJBs,
OAG and
OMGs Business Objects and Components
UML, UEML, WfMC XML-based Business Language
JDBC, WfMC, OMG-JointFlow, XML-WfMC standards
ODBC, JDBC, FIPA, OMG-MASIF, Mobile Objects
JMS, MS-Message Server, MQSeries, FIPA-ACC
BizTalk, CBL, OASIS, ICE, RosettaNET, OBI, WIDL,
ebXML, Servlets, JSP, MS-ASP, XSL, WSDL,
Oceano …WiFi, Leased Line, ADSL,
UMTS, …!!!
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WHAT WE UNDERSTAND BY CNO
ECOLEAD
Collaborative Networks (CN)
Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNO)
Virtual
Laboratory (VL)
Virtual Organization (VO)
Virtual Enterprise (VE)
Professional
Virtual
Community (PVC)
Extended
Enterprise
CNO Breeding Environment
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WHAT WE UNDERSTAND BY CNO
ECOLEAD
Network ...
Constituted by a variety of entities (e.g. organizations and people)
that are:
largely autonomous
geographically distributed
heterogeneous in terms of their:
operating environment, culture, social capital and goals
Nevertheless these entities collaborate to better achieve common or
compatible goals
The collaborative interactions are supported by a computer network.
Unlike other networks, in CNO collaboration is an intentional property
that derives from the shared belief that
together the network members can achieve goals
that would not be possible
or would have a higher cost if attempted by them individually
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STRATEGIC GOAL
ECOLEAD
ECOLEAD aims at creating
the necessary strong foundations
and mechanisms for establishing
an advanced collaborative
and network-based industry
society in Europe.
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HOLISTIC APPROACH
ECOLEAD
Preventing the limitations of fragmented research ...
A holistic approach combining:
Professional
Virtual
Communities
Dynamic
VOs
VO Breeding
Environment
Theoretical foundation
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Breeding environments
Management of (dynamic) VOs
Professional Virtual Communities
Horizontal Infrastructures for
collaboration
• Theoretical foundation
“Horizontal” ICT infrastructure
towards the establishment of collaborative networks as a
new scientific discipline
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ECOLEAD FOCUS AREAS
ECOLEAD
VO
VT
Opportunity
driven
Preparedness
VBE
PVC
Long-term
strategy
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ECOLEAD FOCUS AREAS
ECOLEAD
VBE
Intended to increase the level of preparedness of
organizations to participate in (dynamic) VOs
VOM Support (dynamic) VOs through their life cycle
PVC
Putting the focus on human collaboration and
corresponding value creation
TF
The theoretical foundation shall provide the basis for
technology-independent understanding of the area and its
phenomena.
ICT-I The existence of an invisible, low-cost ICT infrastructure is
a pre-condition for the establishment of truly dynamic
collaborative networks.
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VO BREADING ENVIRONMENTS
ECOLEAD
The operating principles of VO breeding environments are
understood and formalized, the framework and services to
support the full life cycle of the collaborative networks are
developed in a generic way but coping with different
specificities and SME needs
VBE reference framework
- Entities, structure, roles, behavior
VBE
Creation
Competencies management
Ontology evolution
VBE
Operation
VBE
Metamorphosis
Trust management support
VO creation framework
VBE
Evolution
VBE management tools
VBE
Dissolution
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VO MANAGEMENT
ECOLEAD
Well-defined business models and
tools for systematic VO management
(planning, control, organization and
leadership), taking into account the
social mechanisms in multi-interest
collaboration networks, as well as the
transitional nature of VO.
Dimensions:
1) Behavior / processes
2) Resources / assets
3) Dynamics
Structure, actors, roles
Network-centric models
Performance indicators
& supervision
Value systems
Business models
VO VO operation
VO
creation & evolution dissolution
Support tools
VBE
creation
VBE operation
VBE
metamorphosis
Time
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ECOLEAD
PROFESSIONAL VIRTUAL
COMMUNITIES
The human centered management and exploitation of
knowledge and value creation are leveraged by
well-supported Professional Virtual Communities (PVC), which
are synergistically integrated in the business ecosystem.
VALUE
Organizational forms
Behavior, roles, rules
Skills & competencies
Support institutions
People
Knowledge
Technology
Value systems
Benefits, performance, ...
Business models
Collaboration platform
& tools
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HORIZONTAL INFRASTRUCTURES
FOR COLLABORATION
ECOLEAD
The ICT infrastructure will be developed as an open,
transparent, easy to use, and affordable enabler of
collaborative behaviors in networked organizations.
Support
Service
Support
Service
Support
Service
Support
Service
Sliding “borders”
ICT Infrastructure
Networking, Web, ...
ebXML
…?
RosettaNET
…?
GRID
MAS…?
Intermmediate support for collaboration
Technology “independence” and prototyping
Require specific business models
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ECOLEAD
and others
THEORETICAL FOUNDATION
ECOLEAD
Understand and model the principles of
collaboration, emerging behavior and
self-organization in collaborative networks
Modeling foundation
Reference models of CNOs
New scientific discipline: Collaborative Networks
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A NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE
ECOLEAD
The establishment of a scientific discipline for
collaborative networks is a strong instrument to:
consolidate and synthesize the existing
knowledge
set a sound foundation for the future research and
development in this area
A discipline of collaborative networks shall focus on the
structure, behavior, and evolving dynamics
of networks of autonomous entities that collaborate to
better achieve common or compatible goals
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ECOLEAD
DEMONSTRATION & IMPACT
CREATION
Pilot validation of models and tools in front-runner collaborative
networks of SMEs
Achieve a robust framework for the successful take up and
exploitation of project results
Multipliers base & collaboration synergies
Publications in high quality channels
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TRAINING
ECOLEAD
Creation of Virtual Learning Community
Training plans & actions
Reference curricula for CNO
Training actions and repository of support materials
http://seminars.ijs.si/ecolead
Tutorials (43)
Training content
Content market
Community services
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ECOLEAD & SOCIETY
ECOLEAD
Requirements
Integrated framework
for establishment and
operation of CNOs
ECOLEAD
Facilitation of CNOs growth
Increase knowledge &
implantation of CNOs
Validation feedback
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Governments
Policy &
decision
makers
SOCIETY
ECOLEAD IMPACTS
ECOLEAD
Industry
Science
Theoretical
foundation
New models
of business
ecosystems
Recognition
as discipline
New models of
self-organizing
collaborative
networks
Sound
Decision-making
and assessment
New metrics
& value systems
New metrics and value
systems
New models of
synergy among BE,
VO, and PVC
New
collaborative
problem solving
methods
Basis for
advanced tools
Improved
performance &
involvement of
SMEs in
collaborative
networks
New knowledge skills and
aptitudes regarding
competence management
Improved competitiveness
New frameworks
for collaborative
PVC
ECOLEAD
Impacts
Basis for
business
exploitation of
PVCs
Support
networks
of SMEs
New technology
development
opportunities
Increased
sustainable
Better support from
New concepts,
regional business
industry associations
principles and
ecosystems
to VOs
reference architectures Guidance for new
Sound framework
Generic models for
for horizontal
institutions to support
for knowledge
VO operation &
infrastructures
collaboration
workers / e-lancers
assessment
Better structured
New ways of work
approaches for
Better education on
collaborative
Wider collaboration
modeling & formalisms communities
among organizations
Society
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Basis for plugand-do-business
Basis for new
collaborative
applications
Greater
availability of
“connectivity”
potential
STRATEGIC RESULTS
ECOLEAD
1. VO Breeding Environment Organization Framework
2. VO Creation Framework
3. VO Operation and Management Models and Services
4. PVC Business Model
5. PVC Collaboration Platform
6. Business Model for Collaboration Infrastructures
7. Plug and Play Collaboration Infrastructure
8. Theoretical Foundation for CNOs
9. Training program for CNOs
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Value system and metrics
for PVC
CNO set-up and
management guidelines
VO Breeding Environment
Organization Framework
VO Creation Framework
ICT collaboration Reference models
infrastructures
& architectures
VBE reference framework
Dynamic VO
management models
PVC reference framework
Reference architecture
for collaborative infrastructures
Reference architecture
for collaboration e-services
Plug & Play
infrastructure for collaboration
Dynamic multi-level
security mechanisms
VBE management services
Dynamic VO creation
assistance tool
ICT collaboration
Support e-srvices
VO Operation & Management
Models and Services
Contract negotiation wizard
PVC Business Model
VO management e-services
Advanced collaboration platform
for PVCs
Collaborative problem solving
support e-services
Models interoperability basis
Soft modeling foundation
Lively update of ECOLEAD
strategic and results roadmaps
Long-term strategic roadmap
for CNOs
Model of impact creation process &
methodology for results assessment
Pilot validation models and tools
in front-runner CN of SMEs
PVC Collaboration Platform
Business Model for
Collaboration Infrastructures
Plug and Play
Collaboration Infrastructure
Theoretical Foundation
for CNOs
VO performance measurement tool
Collaborative distributed
business process supervision tool
Reference models for CNOs
Training program on CNOs
Impact creation plan and
mechanisms
Established links with impact
multipliers base
Specific actions in collaboration
with impact multipliers
Virtual Learning Community
European training program on CNO
Training workshops and
summer schools
Distance learning materials on CNO
Publications in conferences
ECOLEAD
strategic results
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Theoretical
foundation
for CNOs
Business models for
Roadmapping
for strategic
research
Professional Virtual Communities
ECOLEAD
Formal and semi-formal
modeling foundation for CNOs
Validation and
Industrial impacts
VO operational
governance models
STRATEGIC &
KEY RESULTS
Training &
education
Value system and metrics
for VO breeding environments
Publications in journals
Dissemination
Business models
& guidelines
Business models for
collaborative infrastructures
WORK PROGRAM
ECOLEAD
WP1- Strategic S&T coordination
WP5Theoretical
foundation
Subprojects
WP2VBE
Subprojects
WP3VO
Subprojects
WP4PVC
Subprojects
WP7- Training activities
WP8- Demonstration actions
WP9- IP management
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WP6Horizontal
Infrastruc.
Subprojects
CONCLUSIONS
ECOLEAD
Collaborative networked organizations is a
strong socio-economic “movement”
ECOLEAD is based on a strategic vision towards
leadership in collaborative networks
ECOLEAD relies on a multi-disciplinary
consortium and effective coordination team
ECOLEAD Info resources: http://www.ecolead.org
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