Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-376) and index.
"Driven by the need for global excellence and customer value, agility and innovation have become imperative for business, Agile Systems with Reusable Patterns of Business Knowledge: A Component-Based Approach shows how innovation can be systematized with normalized patterns of information. The book clearly explains how business processes and information systems can be tightly aligned and how they can be designed to automatically adapt to change by reconfiguring shared patterns of knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.