TY - JOUR
T1 - Boundary objects as a framework to understand the role of systems integrators
AU - Fong, Allan
AU - Valerdi, Ricardo
AU - Srinivasan, Jayakanth
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The US Department of Defense is facing challenges to develop the capabilities necessary to effectively operate in new operational environments. As a result, these services are seeking to partner with industry members and leverage both government and industry knowledge to develop System of Systems (SoS) that can provide the desired capabilities by integrating legacy systems with new technologies. These large-scale engineering projects require system integrators that can manage not only the technical interfaces but also the organizational ones. This paper proposes a boundary object framework that can assist in understanding the role of these systems integrators by observing changes in organizational interfaces. This framework does so by monitoring the objects and artifacts used at the interfaces.
AB - The US Department of Defense is facing challenges to develop the capabilities necessary to effectively operate in new operational environments. As a result, these services are seeking to partner with industry members and leverage both government and industry knowledge to develop System of Systems (SoS) that can provide the desired capabilities by integrating legacy systems with new technologies. These large-scale engineering projects require system integrators that can manage not only the technical interfaces but also the organizational ones. This paper proposes a boundary object framework that can assist in understanding the role of these systems integrators by observing changes in organizational interfaces. This framework does so by monitoring the objects and artifacts used at the interfaces.
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U2 - 10.1142/S1793966607000042
DO - 10.1142/S1793966607000042
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960312470
SN - 1793-9666
VL - 2
SP - 11
EP - 18
JO - Systems Research Forum
JF - Systems Research Forum
IS - 1
ER -