Dear All,

Thank you for your numerous subscriptions and welcome to the second VE-Forum newsletter. Building on the success of the previous newsletter, we aim at keeping you informed on the latest news and events in the domain of networked organisations and virtual enterprises as well as disseminating the results of a variety of projects in these areas.

As a registered user of VE-Forum you can suggest items to be included in subsequent newsletters by submitting news and event items directly in the “News & Events” section of VE-Forum (http://www.ve-forum.org). We would like to thank all the members for their useful contributions, which help us to deliver an interesting and comprehensive newsletter.

Simona Barresi, Hermann Loeh and Bernhard Katzy

News

eChallenges e-2005 Call for Papers 08/12/2004 The eChallenges e-2005 Conference and Exhibition takes place in Ljubljana, Slovenia 19 – 21 October. This is the fifteenth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 500 delegates from commercial, government & research organisations around the world to share knowledge, experience,.. more..
eJOV Special Issue on: “Learning in global organizations” 07/12/2004 eJOV (Electronic Journal of Organizational Virtualness) is planning a special issue on “Learning in global organizations”. In many organizations today projects are the main form of executing tasks. Many employees work in multi-project environments across borders, and the management of such activities has become a growing challenge for companies... more..
FUNSIEC newsletters 02/12/2004 The general aim of the FUNSIEC project is to study the feasibility of building and maintaining an Open Semantic Infrastructure for the European Construction Sector (OSIECS) at a technical, organisational and business level. Such an infrastructure is to be built by gathering semantic resources devoted to the construction sector in different.. more..
McKinsey Quarterly - Article at a glance: Organizing for effectiveness in the public sector 01/12/2004 New Article on effectiveness in the private sector released: Public-sector agencies differ from private enterprises in having social rather than financial objectives, but there is pressure on both to be more efficient. Since the government often lacks a corporation's freedom to discontinue hard-to-provide services or to dismiss underperforming.. more..
VE-Forum participates in IST 2004 Exhibition 01/12/2004 VE-Forum – the community of consultants, practitioners, researchers and technologists focused on the challenges and opportunities associated with networked organisations and virtual enterprises, exhibited at the IST 2004 Conference (www.eChallenges.org), which took place at the Netherlands Congress Centre in Den Haag, Netherlands (15th –17th.. more..
Virtual Government Interest Group 01/12/2004 Dear all,it is almost two weeks now, that the Virtual Government Interest Group is online. Together with Prof. Bernhard Katzy, I am running this Interest Group.I am in charge of the research group e-governance, which is located at the Chair Management of Network Industries, College of Management at the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne.. more..
MOSAIC Newsletters 25/11/2004 The objective of MOSAIC is to accelerate innovation in MobileWorker Support Environments by shaping future research and innovationactivities in Europe. To consult MOSAIC Newsletters please follow the provided links June 2004 - MOSAIC Newsletter No 1 (1,6 MB)Please access or download the MOSAIC Newsletter No.. more..
eJOV Call for Papers 12/11/2004 eJOV is a journal for theoretical and empirical research related to virtual organizations and networks. It draws on a wide research community studying network phenomena in various settings such as industrial and commercial firms, professions, governments and administrations, health care and non-profit organizations. eJOV connects insights from.. more..
Workshop Presentations and Results available on Virtual Collaboration & VO - eChallenges 2004 10/11/2004 The VE-Forum Interest Group on Collaboration Tools was host of a very interesting workshop at the eChallenges 2004 conference. As second in a series of workshops started at the ICE 2004 conference in June, this workshop highlighted case studies and survey results covering different aspects such as individual skills, organisational structures,.. more..
eChallenges e-2004 Conference Overview 09/11/2004 eChallenges e-2004, the fourteenth in a series of annual conferences, took place this year at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria (27th – 29th October). The goals of the eChallenges Conference Series are to stimulate rapid take-up in Europe of RTD results, to promote ICT knowledge sharing between commercial organisations, government agencies and.. more..
INTEROP Network of Excellence - Newsletter - third issue 08/11/2004 INTEROP is a Network of Excellence supported by the European Commission, It aims to create the conditions of an innovative and competitive research in the domain of Interoperability for Enterprise Applications and Software. The third issue of INTEROP Newsletter is available.. more..

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