European Journal of ePractice

This paper suggests that it will be useful to separate this heterogeneous collection of organizational issues into three dimensions. In line with the assignment of standards and protocols to the technical and semantic layer, an additional layer, presently called organizational IOP, should be confined to standards and concepts dealing with the linkage of business processes and be called business process IOP. All other organizational aspects should be conceived as cross-cutting dimensions, as they refer to elements on all layers. Relevant characteristics of more than 70 good practice cases have been collected within a Study of IOP for the European Commission. Based on these indicators, an empirical taxonomy of settings for achieving IOP at present is developed within an ongoing research project. The proposed classification is presented here in order to invite comments by the IOP community and at the same time is recommended for the discussion about the new draft of the EIF 2.0, issued in July 2008[1].