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Enterprise Modelling for the Masses – From Elitist Discipline to Common Practice
Series
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
ISBN
978-3-319-48393-1
Type
book section
Date Issued
2016-11
Author(s)
Sandkuhl, Kurt
Hoppenbrouwers, Stijn
Krogstie, John
Leue, Andreas
Mattes, Florian
Opdahl, Andreas L.
Schwabe, Gerhard
Uludag, Ömer
Editor(s)
Horkoff, Jennifer
Jeusfeld, Manfred A.
Persson, Anne
Research Team
ACG, IWI1
Abstract
Enterprise modelling (EM) as a discipline has been around for
several decades with a huge body of knowledge on EM in academic literature. The benefits of modelling and its contributions to organizational tasks are largely undisputed. Thus, from an inside-out perspective, EM appears to be a mature and established discipline. However, for initiating serious innovations this view is not sufficient. This position paper takes an outside-in perspective on
enterprise modelling and argues that EM is far away from reaching its maximum potential. EM is typically done by a limited number of people in organizations inclined to methods and modelling. What is captured in models is only a fragment of what ought to be captured. Many people actually develop some kind of model in their local practice without thinking about it consciously. Exploiting the potential of this “grass roots modelling” could lead to groundbreaking
innovations in EM. The aim is to investigate integration of the established, often systematic and formalized practices of modelling in enterprises with local practices of creating, using and communicating model-like artifacts or objects of relevance for the overall organization.
several decades with a huge body of knowledge on EM in academic literature. The benefits of modelling and its contributions to organizational tasks are largely undisputed. Thus, from an inside-out perspective, EM appears to be a mature and established discipline. However, for initiating serious innovations this view is not sufficient. This position paper takes an outside-in perspective on
enterprise modelling and argues that EM is far away from reaching its maximum potential. EM is typically done by a limited number of people in organizations inclined to methods and modelling. What is captured in models is only a fragment of what ought to be captured. Many people actually develop some kind of model in their local practice without thinking about it consciously. Exploiting the potential of this “grass roots modelling” could lead to groundbreaking
innovations in EM. The aim is to investigate integration of the established, often systematic and formalized practices of modelling in enterprises with local practices of creating, using and communicating model-like artifacts or objects of relevance for the overall organization.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Business Innovation
Book title
The Practice of Enterprise Modeling : 9th IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference, PoEM 2016, Skövde, Sweden, November 8-10, 2016, Proceedings
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Publisher place
Cham
Volume
Vol. 267
Start page
225
End page
240
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
249662