An Intelligent System For Bid Management
Jussi Stader · 1997
Managing change in a complex business environment presents real challenges. Chief amongst these is the pace of change in terms of technology, management innovation and the whole competitive environment. Understanding how the business operates makes it possible to identify and address areas that are restraining business performance. Enterprise modelling methods capture various aspects of how a business works and how it is organised. This helps to obtain an enterprise-wide view of an organisation, which can then be used as a basis for taking decisions. AIAI at the University of Edinburgh lead the Enterprise project, which focused on management innovation and the strategic use of IT to help manage change. AIAI and Pilkington Optronics worked together to demonstrate how the approach of the Enterprise project could be used to address Pilkington Optronics’s real business needs. This lead to the development of the Bid Manager system which supports the bid / no-bid decision. By basing the Bid Manager on the Enterprise Toolset, Pilkington Optronics have been able to obtain a system that integrates existing IT application systems, enabling them to upgrade the overall system as their business processes develop.