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| Ricardo Valerdi |
Enterprises increasingly need
to consider and pursue fundamental change—transformation—to maintain or gain
competitive advantage. This need raises important research issues concerning
how transformation is best understood and pursued.
The Journal of Enterprise
Transformation (JET)—a joint publication of the Institute of Industrial
Engineers and the International Council on Systems Engineering—is the first
journal devoted exclusively to examining the phenomenon of transformation.
JET’s focus is interdisciplinary research addressing enterprise transformation
challenges within and across different domains such as aerospace, health care,
financial services, government and public-private partnerships, etc. JET
promotes a holistic approach to advancing our understanding of enterprise
transformation by addressing the challenges from technical, behavioral,
managerial, and social perspectives.
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| Deborah Nightingale |
“JET has the opportunity to make
important contributions to the field of enterprise transformation,” said Pat
Hale, director of MIT’s System Design and Management Fellows Program and past president
of INCOSE. “We are indebted to Professor Nightingale and Dr. Valerdi for
helping to spearhead this endeavor.”
Published quarterly beginning
in winter 2011, JET will provide a forum for original articles on trends, new
findings, and ongoing research related to enterprise transformation. Bringing
together interdisciplinary research in management, industrial and systems
engineering, information systems, organizational behavior, political science,
and economics, JET will cover the latest developments and directions for future
research (both theory and application). JET is designed to serve professionals
and researchers who conduct enterprise-level planning, manage organizational
transformation, or work in related research areas. Topics to look for in future
issues include:
- Enterprise definition and boundaries
- Context-specific case studies of transformation
- Enterprise change management
- Theory of the process of transformation
- Behavioral aspects of transformation
- Role of information technology in transformation
- Enterprise architecting, modeling, and simulation
- Enterprise performance measurement
- Policy considerations
Specific emphasis will be
placed on the enterprise as the unit of analysis, interdisciplinary research
with socio-technical perspectives, a balance of both rigor and relevance, and
studies across the spectrum of research methods (qualitative and quantitative).
JET papers are not meant to focus exclusively on isolated processes (i.e.,
manufacturing floor) or be theoretically dense.
For more information, visit www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ujet.
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