Abstract: Virtual firm (VF) technology is disclosed, in which the abstraction of enterprise resources benefits the efficiency and scalability of the enterprises (firms). The technology includes a system including a resource abstraction layer that defines virtual enterprise resources. The resource abstraction layer is configured to map the virtual enterprise resources to actual enterprise resources. A shared enterprise resource planning system provides multiple guest ERP units, each for a particular enterprise to define workflows containing tasks. The system has a two-layer task assignment function to assign each task to a suitable virtual enterprise resources in the resource abstraction layer, and further assign the task to be executed by an enterprise resources mapped to the selected virtual enterprise resource. The task assignment can be automated. The virtual enterprise resources are shared among different enterprises. Virtualizable enterprise resources may include human workers and computational workers.

Abstract: Virtual firm (VF) technology is disclosed, in which the abstraction of enterprise resources benefits the efficiency and scalability of the enterprises (firms). The technology includes a system including a resource abstraction layer that defines virtual enterprise resources. The resource abstraction layer is configured to map the virtual enterprise resources to actual enterprise resources. A shared enterprise resource planning system provides multiple guest ERP units, each for a particular enterprise to define workflows containing tasks. The system has a two-layer task assignment function to assign each task to a suitable virtual enterprise resources in the resource abstraction layer, and further assign the task to be executed by an enterprise resources mapped to the selected virtual enterprise resource. The task assignment can be automated. The virtual enterprise resources are shared among different enterprises. Virtualizable enterprise resources may include human workers and computational workers.

Abstract: Virtual firm (VF) technology is disclosed, in which the abstraction of enterprise resources benefits the efficiency and scalability of the enterprises (firms). The technology includes a system including a resource abstraction layer that defines virtual enterprise resources. The resource abstraction layer is configured to map the virtual enterprise resources to actual enterprise resources. A shared enterprise resource planning system provides multiple guest ERP units each for a particular enterprise to define workflows containing tasks and to assign each task to one or more suitable virtual enterprise resources in the resource abstraction layer. The assigned tasks are each executed by one or more enterprise resources mapped to the respective one or more virtual enterprise resources. The virtual enterprise resources are shared among different enterprises. Virtualizable enterprise resources may include human workers and computational workers.