Enterprise Collaboration
The COIN EC services aim at supporting industrial enterprises (and SMEs in particular) in the collaborative processes regarding the creation and management of long-lasting clusters and networks (e.g. supply chains, collaborative networks, business ecosystems), as well as the creation, management and dissolution of short-term enterprises aggregations, called Virtual Enterprises or Virtual Organizations. The EC services are divided into 5 distinct classes, each of them addressing the challenge of competencies and business opportunities dynamic management for different collaboration forms (hierarchical, semi-hierarchical and not-hierarchical)
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Enterprise Collaboration Baseline Services
- They support the collaboration life cycle both for long-term, mission-driven and for short-term, opportunity-driven aggregations
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Collaborative Product Development Services
- They cover the collaborative new product/service development stage, by focusing on enterprise applications where open innovation and user participation play a very important role
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Collaborative Production Planning Services
- They cover the collaborative goods production planning stage, by focusing on enterprise applications where focus is on real time inventory management, optimized dynamic planning and scheduling and integration with manufacturing and ERP legacy systems
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Collaborative Project Management Services
- They cover the collaborative and participative project management, by focusing on dynamic performance indicators and proactive events management
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Collaborative Human Interaction Services
- They focus on the user interaction with a service platform, by encompassing human collaboration architectures, context-aware interaction and mobile-nomadic usage support
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