Aligning strategic objectives with organizational processes: a methodology for virtual enterprise implementation

Abstract

This paper addresses the regulatory, policy and organizational issues that must be pre-engineered into business processes before a virtual relationship can exist between potential partners. Our research is centered on two crucial concepts: (1) the development of a strategic Operational Virtual Enterprise Methodology that facilitates the rapid formation and reconfiguration (realignment) of organizational processes in response to an external order that necessitates the formation of a virtual organization, and (2) the implementation and validation of the Operational Virtual Enterprise Methodology in a manufacturing environment.