Objective
The main objective of the project is to address the strengths and weakness of European industry, making it easier for business, particularly SMEs, to adapt to the new requirements of competitiveness through the adoption of better business best practice at a European level (to consolidate the benefit of Single Market), in line with the transition to the Information Society. The project is to bridge the gap between successful technological leaders which adopted Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and the less advanced firms.
More specific objectives of the project, which is addressing task 7.8 are:
- to set up a network of support centres, constituted by top-level European Business Schools (MIP (I), IESE (E), Trinity College (IRL), and CITY Liberal Studies (GR)) and IT companies (TKE (I), Publycom (E), NIMT (IRL), and Epsilon (GR)), for the technology transfer and dissemination of TBP results to a broader Business Community
- to gather and disseminate widely the state of art in business best practice, IT products, services and systems
- to address the take up of BPR initiative aimed at large and SMEs, contributing to the identification of companies'strategic objectives, the functions and support to be provided by the system and appropriate work organisation models, improving the impact of ICTs on their competitiveness, and their ability to create jobs
- to specifically address European SMEs, which provide more than two third of Union employment (70.2 % of which 29 % is accounted for by firms with fewer than 10 employees) and generate more than two thirds of Union turnover.
These objectives will be achieved through a network of IT companies and Business Schools where a TBP (Business Process and IT) Support Centre and a TBP Support Team will be based, and using a URBIS Information System to interwork. Each Business School/IT company has already selected a specific region (in its own country), homogeneous from the point of view of the 'political' willingness to support the project in a active way, where to base its action.
The project will be phased over a 2 year period, and the first phase will profile each region, identify user cluster and their needs, and 'audit' the current usage of IT and TBP, leading to the preparation of a common 'TBP Action Plan'. The second phase will set out the operational requirements and methodological approach for the URBIS Consortium to assist Business organisations (Public Administrations, SMEs, etc.), and in the uptake of TBP. This will be followed by field trials in each regions targeted by the project. The final exploitation phase will define how the URBIS support systems will be continued, extended, deployed to further regions and supported after the completion of the project. With respect to commercial exploitation, an important aspect to take into account is that the project gathers together organisations (Business Schools and IT Companies) which are already providing services to Business Organisations, and SMEs in particular.
Extension to countries not involved in URBIS will be reached in the project time frame through the URBIS User Group, gathering SMEs, Associations of Enterprises, Business Schools (due to the relevant international linkages of URBIS Business Schools) outside the project, and contributing to project results validation. The URBIS Consortium is also strongly committed to pursue for an open interface with respect to other Business Best Practice Networks (TBP/IT Programme), results arising from other projects, as well as specific SMEs needs and requirements, putting at their disposal the URBIS platform.
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