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Capability Oriented Enterprise Knowledge Modeling: The CODEK Approach

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Enterprise modeling has been defined as the ‘art of externalizing enterprise knowledge’. Traditional approaches to enterprise modeling rely on ‘blueprint thinking’ that focuses on the formal structure and organization of the enterprise, with business processes being the fundamental components of the enterprise operation. Such approaches generally assume enterprises as deterministic, top-down managed entities, with a well-defined group of processes that develop and maintain products or services for their customers. However, the prevalence and volatility of digital enterprises shifts enterprise modeling towards a more dynamic enterprise configuration, to embrace the idea of dynamic adaptation according to the internal and external influences that constantly (re-)shape the business environment. To this end, enterprise modeling research has adopted model-driven development methods and service-oriented architectures originating from the software development domain, as a means to achieve flexible service delivery and the notion of dynamic capability from the strategic management domain in order to address adaptation to the dynamic business context. This chapter will outline emergent trends in the field, introduce a conceptual framework for the capability-driven development of enterprise knowledge and discuss how this can be used to enable the design of capabilities and services using examples from an eGovernment case study.

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    Pericles Loucopoulos

  2. Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, 811 00, Mytilene, Greece

    Evangelia Kavakli

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Loucopoulos, P., Kavakli, E. (2016). Capability Oriented Enterprise Knowledge Modeling: The CODEK Approach. In: Karagiannis, D., Mayr, H., Mylopoulos, J. (eds) Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39417-6_9

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