Toward Structured Simulation of What-If Analyses for Enterprise

Sunkle, Sagar; Roychoudhury, Suman; Rathod, Hemant; Kulkarni, Vinay

doi:10.1109/edocw.2014.41

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“…The process continues Jnitova et al 55 development effort of systems dynamics building blocks (minimodels) from the BPMN diagrams. It is also guided by the An and Jeng 21 business process and systems dynamics translation approach in supply chains, and by the Sunkle et al 56 approach to presenting and implementing translation maps.…”

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Modelling workforce employability pipelines for organisational resilience

Jnitova

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Efatmaneshnik

et al. 2021

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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Large organisations use both internal and external methods to educate their workforce. Workforce approaches in Defence were usually of a closed nature, characterised by entry at recruitment and sequential and hierarchical rank progression. More recently, emerging technology and the associated pace of societal change has required Defence to recruit more laterally and to outsource more education, both ab initio and development. The growing complexity of workforce problems, therefore, challenges military educational decision making to increase its focus on organisational resilience. Modelling and Simulation (M&S) can take messy, ill-defined problems and build models for decision support and problem-solving. M&S is being explored in Defence workforce employability planning to deliver education that is more resilient to perturbations and can more confidently predict graduate demand for educational support partnering. However, the effective use of M&S can be compromised if it is not cognitively useful for the problem owner. A new transformational approach between the modeller and the managers of Defence educational workforce is proposed and illustrated by two conceptual case studies. The method uses the module-based translation between Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) design patterns and systems dynamics building blocks to reduce the problem owner’s reliance on specialist modellers. This approach increases the cognitive effectiveness of proposed workforce education solutions and the sharing and reuse of workforce M&S applications. Any large organisation with sufficient human resource and systems engineering support could adopt this new approach to model and simulate their workforce education and examine their resilience to fluctuations.

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Modelling workforce employability pipelines for organisational resilience

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International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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“…The core of the work presented in this paper is the conceptualization of the e-waste domain through the application of conceptual modeling (CM) practices, such as metamodeling, model transformation and simulation (Delcambre et al , 2019). While some of these practices have been applied in domains as distinct as enterprise modeling (Sunkle et al , 2014) and the human immune system (Knop et al , 2012), they have not been decisively applied to help solve e-waste related problems. By bringing these practices into the e-waste domain, we expect to help researchers, practitioners and decision-makers to understand, analyze and perform experiments on short- or long-term scenarios.…”

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Metamodeling the e-waste domain to support decision-making

Herrera

Lara

Sánchez

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IJLM

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PurposeThis paper proposes a conceptualization of the e-waste domain, formalized through a metamodel, to express complex e-waste realities in a simple manner. This also enables the transition from a structural model to a behavioral model to implement analysis techniques.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology used is design science research (DSR), a problem-solving paradigm which seeks to construct a working artifact and prove its relevance. The artifact, a metamodel for the e-waste domain, was constructed through an iterative manner and later analyzed to conclude its theoretical relevance and contributions in this domain. As part of the approach, the authors used supplementary techniques such as systematic literature review (SLR), conceptual modeling (CM) and system dynamics (SD).FindingsThe application in the e-waste domain of CM techniques such as metamodeling, model-to-model transformation and simulation is valuable for supporting decision-making, especially when combined with SD. The approach presented in this paper, the conceptual tools and different simulation techniques could also be applied in other complex domains to obtain similar results.Practical implicationsThe modeling method to apply simulation techniques is targeted toward the e-waste domain experts to understand, design, implement, measure and improve strategies and public policies.Originality/valueThe use of CM techniques to model and analyze structural and behavioral e-waste scenarios.

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