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Berzisa, S.; Bravos, G.; Cardona Gonzalez, T.; Czubayko, U.; España, S.; Grabis, J.; Henkel, M.... (2015). Capability driven development: an approach to designing digital enterprises. Business and Information Systems Engineering. 57(1):15-25. doi:10.1007/s12599-014-0362-0. 1 Capability Driven Development: An Approach to Designing Digital EnterprisesAbstract. The need for organizations to operate in changing environments is addressed by proposing an approach that integrates organizational development with information system (IS) development taking into account changes in the application context of the solution. This is referred to as Capability Driven Development (CDD). A meta-model representing business and IS designs consisting of goals, key performance indicators, capabilities, context and capability delivery patterns, is being proposed. The use of the meta-model is validated in three industrial case studies as part of an ongoing collaboration project, whereas one case is presented in the paper. Issues related to the use of the CDD approach, namely, CDD methodology and tool support are also discussed.

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A new Monte‐Carlo program for simulation of low energy electron scattering in solids is presented. Applications to electron microscopy and electron microprobe analysis are discussed. Elastic interactions are described by Mott cross sections within the framework of partial wave analysis (PWA) whereas the inelastic collisions are based upon the momentum dependent dynamic form factor S(q, ω). For inelastic interactions with weakly bound valence electrons, S(q, ω) is expressed in terms of the energy loss function Im {—/1ε(q, ω)} of the linear dielectric theory. On the other hand, generalized oscillator strengths (GOS) are chosen in case of excitation of tightly bound core level electrons. The electron energy range extends from several keV down to energies of about 10 eV, i.e. just above the vacuum level. Secondary electron (SE) creation and cascade processes have been included, where the SE transport has been treated in the same way as the scattering of the primary electrons.

International audienceLately, the notion of capability has emerged in IS engineering as an instrument to context dependent design and delivery of business services. Representing core business functionalities of an organization, capabilities, and capability driven IS development can be seen as both – a shift beyond and complement to the widely established service-oriented engineering paradigm where needs of customers form the leading modeling and design perspective. To ensure the needs of business stakeholders for variety of business contexts that an organization faces, and thus facilitate successful systems delivery, capability- driven development needs a well-defined method for requirements engineering, as well as its confirmation in practices. In this paper a process for specifying requirements capabilities and their designs is proposed. An application of the proposed approach to the area of business process outsourcing (BPO) services is carried out for the German company SIV