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An Intentional Perspective on Enterprise Modeling

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Enterprise Modeling (EM) has two main purposes: (1) Developing the business, which entails developing business vision, strategies, redesigning the way the business operates, developing the supporting information systems, etc., and (2) ensuring the quality of the business where the focus is on sharing the knowledge about the business, its vision and the way it operates, and ensuring the acceptance of business decisions through committing the stakeholders to the decisions made. In addition, EM has also shown to be useful as a general tool for articulating, discussing, and solving organizational problems. Based on a number of case studies, interviews and observations this chapter defines what is required from EM when adopted for these purposes and intentions respectively. More precisely, it addresses the following types of requirements: documents and models required as input, models that should be developed, requirements on the modeling language, requirements on the modeling process, tool requirements and model quality requirements. The defined requirements are then discussed taking a specific EM method, Enterprise Knowledge Development (EKD) as example.

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    Note that the quotations from this point onward are excerpts from the interviews. Full transcripts of the interviews are available from the authors on request.

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  1. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Royal Institute of Technology, Forum 100, SE-164 40, Kista, Sweden

    Janis Bubenko Jr.

  2. Informatics Research Centre, University of Sküvde, P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28, Sküvde, Sweden

    Anne Persson

  3. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Forum 100, SE 16440, Kista, Sweden

    Janis Stirna

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Bubenko Jr., J., Persson, A., Stirna, J. (2010). An Intentional Perspective on Enterprise Modeling. In: Nurcan, S., Salinesi, C., Souveyet, C., Ralyté, J. (eds) Intentional Perspectives on Information Systems Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12544-7_12

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