Groupware technology for a new approach to organization design systems

In this report a concept and framework for distributed structure organizational design for workflow management systems in global business is presented. Very few approaches of workflow management address dynamic change in (international) organizational structures. Professes describe the activities which are performed, an enterprise model describes the actors and the structure of the organization. This report on Groupware-based Organization Design (GroupOrga) analyzes cicumstances of today's organizational design approaches. An innovative approach to organizational design for workflow and office systems will be presented which is team oriented and groupware based. The report will make clear that structural organizational design requires the complete knowledge about the organization - a requirement that cannot be met by one person. A team-approach supported by groupware will be discussed as well the architecture and tool-centered implementation aspects of the system.