Structuring Participatory Enterprise Modelling Sessions

Abstract

The importance of involving enterprise stakeholders in organizational transformation and development processes has been acknowledged in many scholarly publications in the context of business information systems research. Method and tool support for this is particularly explored and provided by the field of participatory enterprise modelling (PEM). In PEM, modelling sessions involving all relevant stakeholders and guided by a modelling facilitator are a central element. However, the published work on PEM is not very extensive with respect to structuring such modelling sessions, in particular when combining analytical and design parts. It is hence hard for novice modelling facilitators to plan a workshop, to switch between different workshop phases and to react to unforeseen events. Since existing literature covers only generic aspects of workshop moderation, we fill this gap in providing an initial model that can serve to inform, structure and guide PEM sessions. The model has been developed by analysing examples from real-world modelling sessions.

Informing Possible Future Worlds

“…Experiences are shared (Renger et al 2008;Stirna et al 2007) and guidance is proposed on when to choose participatory or conventional modeling (Sandkuhl and Seigerroth 2020). Research also addresses various aspects of the actual content of such sessions, e. g., how they should be structured (Fellmann et al 2020), how distributed real-time collaboration can be conducted over the web (Nicolaescu et al 2016), how multi-touch tables can be used (Gutschmidt 2019). Studies also cover concrete conversations (Hoppenbrouwers and Wilmont 2010), psychological issues (Gutschmidt 2022;Gutschmidt and Richter 2021), or how the quality of collaborative modeling can be assessed (Ssebuggwawo et al 2010).…”