Infrastructures of Virtual IT Enterprises

  • Authors:
  • Mira Kajko-Mattsson

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Service quality has become a critical survivabilityfactor. The value of IT-business does not only lie in theproducts but also in the needs it serves. More and morecustomers require the IT companies with which they dobusiness to continuously improve the speed and quality oftheir service. To provide seamless high quality service,the collaborating IT-companies/departments mustorganise themselves in a way so that they can act as onevirtual enterprise providing a single point of contact. Inthis paper, we study how thirty eight companies belongingto thirty seven independent virtual enterprises haveorganised themselves in order to provide optimalmaintenance service to their customers. Our goal is toprovide a basis for future support process models and forfuture business models. Our results show stronglydiversified infrastructures of confluent serviceorganisations. These infrastructures were matchedagainst CM3: Roadmap: Organisational Perspective.