VOmap (Roadmap design for collaborative virtual organizations in dynamic business ecosystem)

http://www.vomap.org/
Active From: 01.06.2002 - 31.05.2003
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The objective of VOmap is to define a roadmap towards a strategic European initiative, supporting the emerging Virtual Organizations (VO) and VO Communities of Practice. It will identify and characterize the key research challenges, required multi-disciplinary constituency, and an implementation plan for a comprehensive initiative to affirm the EU leadership on VO in the coming Digital Age. VOmap aims to empower European enterprises for both regional sustainability and competitiveness in global market, towards a society of collaborative relationships.

The design of a roadmap for a major programme on collaborative VOs in Europe encompasses a number of specific objectives:

• Consolidation of multi-disciplinary paradigms, establishing a clear baseline and wide consensus on concepts and terminnology
• Identify future scenarios, vision and needs
• Understand and characterize the VO nesting environment
• Plan the integration of multidisciplinary views
• Plan for technology development based on common reference models
• Design a strategy to achieve EU leadership in VO
• Design the implementation mechanisms for a major initiative on VO

This detailed definition of the “future VO innovation cycle” also constitutes a roadmap to a large integrated research initiative developing innovative tools and mechanisms to empower European enterprises and other entities for the competition in the global market of the future.