He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new. (Machiavelli)
CEPRIN Overview
The Center for Process Innovation (CEPRIN) is a college-level research unit within J. Mack Robinson College of Business . The Center was founded in January 2004 in collaboration between the College and the Georgia Research Alliance.
CEPRIN focuses on "end-to-end business process innovation." our preferred modus operandi for research is to collaborate closely with industry partners on research projects of mutual interest, engaging a multi-disciplinary group of researchers (faculty and Ph.D. students) in these projects.
CEPRIN's research embraces the following areas:
- The efficient and responsive satisfaction of an end-consumers’ need for a good or service through the study and improvement of the physical and informational flows and the processes they connect with.
- The transitions across organizational boundaries of such flows and the multiplicity of issues this creates in terms of information sharing, benefit distribution, legal impediments, trust, risk management, and mutual cooperation.
- The need for visibility over the entire process and for effective means to measure and improve its flows.
- The ability to rapidly reconfigure and amend networks to more quickly respond to changes in market needs and economic opportunities.
- The development and implementation of information services and infrastructures that support transactions and networking across organizational boundaries.