Evolution of an Enterprise Modeling Method – Next Generation Improvements of EKD

Stirna, Jānis; Persson, Anne

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34549-4_1

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“…The unified language is intended to be used instead of the different languages that partially cover the domain of interest. We can observe this logic in the definition of UML, ArchiMate, as well as language of EKD method (Stirna and Persson, 2012). This approach boils down to preventing the fragmentation from occurring in the first place.…”

Section: Model Integrationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Challenges of Modelling LandscapesPragmatics Swept Under the Carpet?

Proper

Bjekovic

2013

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Business Modeling and S

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In enterprise modelling, a wide range of models and languages is used to support different purposes. If left uncontrolled, this can easily result in a fragmented perspective on the enterprise, its processes and IT support. On its turn, this negatively affects traceability, the ability to do crosscutting analysis, and the overall coherence of models. Different strategies are suggested to achieve model integration. They mainly address syntactic-semantics aspects of models/languages, and only to a limited extent their pragmatics. In actual use, the 'standardising' and 'integrating' effects of traditional approaches (e.g. UML, ArchiMate) erodes. This is typically manifested by the emergence of local 'dialects', 'light weight versions', as well as extensions of the standard to cover 'missing aspects'. This paper aims to create more awareness of the factors that are at play when creating integrated modelling landscapes. Relying on our ongoing research, we develop a fundamental understanding of the driving forces and challenges related to modelling and linguitic variety within modelling landscapes. In particular, the paper discusses the effect of a priori fixed languages in modelling and model integration efforts, and argues that they bring about the risk of neglecting the pragmatic richness needed across practical modelling situations.

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Section: Model Integrationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Challenges of Modelling LandscapesPragmatics Swept Under the Carpet?

Proper

Bjekovic

2013

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Business Modeling and S

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“…Each of the areas has a dedicated modeling technique intending to provide either top-down analysis, such as with goal modeling that breaks down the strategic objectives [54] and roles modeling [55]; or bottom-up, such as business process modeling that describes operational activities [56] and IT infrastructure and service modeling, e.g., as with the ArchiMate language which emphasizes relationships between IT infrastructure and services [57]. However, it has been argued for decades that the disjoint modeling domains produce a fragmented picture of an organizational system which provides poor support for strategic analysis [58]- [60] or neglects to offer business managers the tools to reason about their enterprise design alternatives that improve alignment between strategy, operations, and IT design [15]. Often the top-down models are mainly built with the inputs from the domain experts [15], while the operative level is mostly concerned with the concrete actions, the depiction of which is a complex task [27].…”

Section: Deploying Femmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Fractal Enterprise Modeling in Strategic Analysis with Focus on Intangibles: Empirical Study in Product Innovation

Klyukina

2023

CSIMQ

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This article presents a new meta-modeling approach for intangible resources. The method combines Enterprise Modeling (EM) and the resource value innovation model from the knowledge management (KM) field. In particular, fractal enterprise modeling (FEM) language has been used for constructing the intangible resources’ level of development. The practical application of the proposed method deploys a real case example in the strategic analysis of the organizational change within the product innovation activities. The results imply that the proposed method has a good potential to incorporate the intangibles into EM. First, it has been possible to represent the intangible resources’ level of development. Second, the FEM models produced in the study have been useful in the analysis of how tacit knowledge is acquired and appropriated within the organization’s strategic capability building. The study resulted in producing modeling and analyzing patterns that can be reused in similar situations. The research followed the Design Science Research (DSR) methodology.

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“…Based on the i* framework [5] defines a method and presents experiences on the usage of the framework in large projects from the stakeholder and modeler point of view. Finally [6] reports results from the application of Enterprise Knowledge Development (EKD) Method in various domains and discusses next generation method improvements based on the observations [6].…”

Section: Experience Reportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Component-Based Method Development: An Experience Report

Sandkuhl

Koç

2014

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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International audienceA method defines a systematic process for problem solving including the required aids and resources. This paper aims at contributing to the area of method development and in particular to practices and experiences in this field by reporting on a case from conceptual modelling and reflecting on lessons learned in it. The contributions of the paper are (1) an application case from method development in a distributed team, (2) the actual method development process integrating work procedure, cooperation principles and notation, and (3) experiences and lessons learned from developing a method component for context modeling

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Evolution of an Enterprise Modeling Method – Next Generation Improvements of EKD

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Challenges of Modelling LandscapesPragmatics Swept Under the Carpet?

Challenges of Modelling LandscapesPragmatics Swept Under the Carpet?

Using Fractal Enterprise Modeling in Strategic Analysis with Focus on Intangibles: Empirical Study in Product Innovation

Component-Based Method Development: An Experience Report

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