Telework Co-ordination Services for Co-operative Business Processes |
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Project Profile
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Objectives and Back to
Top Approach Improvement of the competitiveness of the participating companies by the use of telework based new organisational structures. Enhancement of work productivity to motivate the companies to implement telework widely as an accepted innovative organisational practices and to create new kinds of (tele-) jobs throughout Europe. |
Demonstrating the usage of workflow tools in the management of telework Support of the consolidation of European internal labour market and the compensation of labour market between urban and rural areas. |
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EU-Programme Back to
Top COBIP is funded by the European Commission DG XIII within TAP - the Telematics Applications Programme. Please have a look at the general objectives of TAP - Telematics Applications Programme, too. In the TAP Workprogramme the general and specific objectives for AREA C - "Telematics for Improving Employment and Quality of Life" and the related Sektor 6: Urban and Rural Areas are described. |
Particularly the tasks (UR 1.3) and the research environment, where COBIP is located, are explained in the workprogramme. These are in detail Research Task: 1. Teleworking to strenghten Competitiveness and Employment and in focus Task UR 1.3 Decentralisation of Activities. | |||||||||||
Characteristics Back to
Top Fast changing environments demand flexible Information Systems solutions, only achieved through model-based approaches and supported by state-of-the-art workflow management technology. COBIP regards Telework as an innovative work organisation-form for new decentralised organisational structures, enabled by a co-ordination tool with specific functionality planning. |
COBIP state-of-the-art approach to the co-ordination of decentralised telework activities, combines telework workflow co-ordination tools and specific planning functions with useful multimedia services provided by distributed Digital Library and Video-conference service. | |||||||||||
Results Back to
Top COBIP supports the management of virtual enterprises, departments and teams through telework. COBIP offers the adequate tools and services like |
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Consortium
Back to Top COBIP partners are respected research institutes, a German consultancy and pilot users ranged from SMEs to an industrial company. |
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ContactBack to
Top Project Co-ordination Point Prof. João José Pinto FerreiraINESC Porto Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto Largo Mompilher 22, Apartado 4433, PT-4007 Porto Codex, Portugal Tel. + 351 2 2094300 Fax + 351 2 2008487 E-Mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.inescn.pt, http://www.inescn.pt/~cobip |
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Project Exploitation Jörg Goletz |
Pedro Arãujo |
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COBIP - Telework Co-ordination Services for Co-operative Business Processes - UR 4002 |
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Copyright 1998 COBIP | [email protected] |
Status: 17.05.1999 |