Enterprise Modeling in an Agile World

Abstract

Part 4: Industrial KeynoteInternational audienceAs the pace of business increases, the speed at which enterprise models must be delivered increases accordingly. Enterprise modelers cannot spend years in an attic developing perfect models, but must deliver models that are useful in time to be used. In this paper I will take a look at the experiences we have with enterprise modeling in Statoil, a global oil company headquartered in Norway

The Influence of Syntactic Quality on Pragmatic Quality of Enterprise Process Models

“…The choice of using SEQUAL as an analytical lens for studying the Statoil enterprise model is mainly based on the fact that the company has addressed aspects of the enterprise model in the context of the three core quality levels of SEQUAL (syntactic, semantic and pragmatic) as also reported in the earlier work [1]. Krogstie and Arnesen [9] used a specialization of SEQUAL to evaluate various process modelling languages for use in Statoil.…”

“…Statoil operates in 36 different countries all over the world and have in the last decade been using enterprise modelling in order to structure their vast amounts of organizational knowledge and information. They report to have achieved a fair amount of success with enterprise modelling in its corporate management system [1] where workflow models are used extensively to communicate requirements and best practices throughout the enterprise. The enterprise model functions as a common point of reference for the entire organization, ensuring the quality of a large number of work processes and communicating requirements and best practices throughout the company.…”

“…According to [1], Statoil have found that it is useful to differentiate between at least three dimensions of model quality [6]: Syntactic quality (how well the model uses the modelling language), semantic quality (how well the model reflects the part of the world it represents) and pragmatic quality (how well the model is understood by the target audience), building upon distinctions first described in [7], which is a predecessor to the current SEQUAL framework on quality of models and modelling languages [2]. In enterprise models the balance between these dimensions becomes very important based on the goal of modelling; else the model will not be used by its intended target audience in the right way.…”

Capability Driven Development: An Approach to Designing Digital Enterprises

“…These developments include object-orientation, component based development, business process modeling, enterprise modeling (EM) and software services design. These techniques are mainly aimed at capturing relatively stable, core properties of business problems and on representing functional aspects of the IS (Wesenberg, 2011). However, the prevalence and volatility of the Internet shifts the problem solving focus to capturing instantaneous business opportunities (Deloitte, 2009).…”

Capability Driven Development – An Approach to Support Evolving Organizations

“…These developments include object-orientation, component based development, business process modeling, enterprise modeling (EM) and software services design. These techniques are mainly aimed at capturing relatively stable, core properties of business problems and on representing functional aspects of the IS [1]. However, the prevalence and volatility of the Internet shifts the problem solving focus to capturing instantaneous business opportunities [2] and increases the importance of nonfunctional aspects.…”