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Preface: Why Study the Agile Virtual Enterprise? Agility and the Virtual Enterprise How the Project/Book Was put Together Chapter 1: Introduction Agility Is Different Chapter 2: An Historical Example Military Research "Can D0's" and Dont's A Review of Best Agile Practices Some Lessons Learned Chapter 3: The Social Factor Waterworld Role of Culture as an Agent Chapter 4: Cultural Memes The English and French Engineering Paradigms Lessons for Management Metrics Law Follows Engineering Chapters 1   2 3   4  5  6 7  8   9  10  11  12  13  14  Top  Bottom Chapter 5: Empirical Principles of AVEs High Concept in the Virtual Enterprise High Concept in Organizing the Virtual Enterprise Feature-Based Manufacturing Three Visions of the Future The Bottom Line Chapter 6: Agility and the Defense Industry ManTech, Movies and the Spruce Goose The Need for Agility Necessity of Government Investment The Advanced Research Projects Agency Why We Were Sponsored The Story So Far Chapters 1   2 3   4  5  6 7  8   9  10  11  12  13  14  Top  Bottom Chapter 7: Definitions Virtual Enterprise Agility Types of Change Metrics Chapter 8: What Agility Is Not Lean Manufacturing and Agility The Agile Virtual Enterprise and Electronic Commerce Flexible Manufacturing Static Business Practices Techie Solutions Chapter 9: Issues A Tool Strategy Summary of the Method Limits of our Approach Agility Forum and A3 Agility Chapters 1   2 3   4  5  6 7  8   9  10  11  12  13  14  Top  Bottom Chapter 10: The Agile Virtual Enterprise Reference Model The Reference Model Infrastructure Elements Infrastructure 0bservations Best Agile Practice Examples Chapter 11: Communicative Acts and Information Theory Leveraging Information Theory Communicative Acts Modeling by Communicative Acts Parallel Trends in Theory Bottom Line Chapter 12: Examples Use of the Metrics An Example Application in the Real World: A Case Study Deeper into a Case Study Cost and Benef1ts Costs Chapters 1   2 3   4  5  6 7  8   9  10  11  12  13  14  Top  Bottom Chapter 13: Trust An Example of the Problem Inductive and Deductive Trust Mitigated Inductive Trust Truth Agents and Channels Trust Metrics Chapter 14: Summary and Tools Strategy("Threat" and Options) Complexity Softness State Dooley Graph Calculator Conclusion Bibliography and References Index Chapters 1   2 3   4  5  6 7  8   9  10  11  12  13  14  Top  Bottom

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