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Auflistung nach Schlagwort "Enterprise modeling"

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    AI-Enhanced Hybrid Decision Management
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 65, No. 2, 2023) Bork, Dominik; Ali, Syed Juned; Dinev, Georgi Milenov
    The Decision Model and Notation (DMN) modeling language allows the precise specification of business decisions and business rules. DMN is readily understandable by business users involved in decision management. However, as the models get complex, the cognitive abilities of humans threaten manual maintainability and comprehensibility. Proper design of the decision logic thus requires comprehensive automated analysis of e.g., all possible cases the decision shall cover; correlations between inputs and outputs; and the importance of inputs for deriving the output. In the paper, the authors explore the mutual benefits of combining human-driven DMN decision modeling with the computational power of Artificial Intelligence for DMN model analysis and improved comprehension. The authors propose a model-driven approach that uses DMN models to generate Machine Learning (ML) training data and show, how the trained ML models can inform human decision modelers by means of superimposing the feature importance within the original DMN models. An evaluation with multiple real DMN models from an insurance company evaluates the feasibility and the utility of the approach.
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    Capability Driven Development: An Approach to Designing Digital Enterprises
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 57, No. 1, 2015) Bērziša, Solvita; Bravos, George; Gonzalez, Tania Cardona; Czubayko, Ulrich; España, Sergio; Grabis, Jānis; Henkel, Martin; Jokste, Lauma; Kampars, Jânis; Koç, Hasan; Kuhr, Jan-Christian; Llorca, Carlos; Loucopoulos, Pericles; Pascual, Raul Juanes; Pastor, Oscar; Sandkuhl, Kurt; Simic, Hrvoje; Stirna, Janis; Valverde, Francisco Giromé; Zdravkovic, Jelena
    The need for organizations to operate in changing environments is addressed by proposing an approach that integrates organizational development with information system (IS) development taking into account changes in the application context of the solution. This is referred to as Capability Driven Development (CDD). A meta-model representing business and IS designs consisting of goals, key performance indicators, capabilities, context and capability delivery patterns, is being proposed. The use of the meta-model is validated in three industrial case studies as part of an ongoing collaboration project, whereas one case is presented in the paper. Issues related to the use of the CDD approach, namely, CDD methodology and tool support are also discussed.
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    Concepts for Modeling Smart Cities
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 64, No. 3, 2021) Bastidas, Viviana; Reychav, Iris; Ofir, Alon; Bezbradica, Marija; Helfert, Markus
    The rapid increase and adoption of new Information Technologies (IT) in Smart Cities make the provision of public services more efficient. However, various municipalities and cities deal with challenges to transform and digitize city services. Smart Cities have a high degree of complexity where offered city services must respond to the concerns and goals of multiple stakeholders. These city services must also involve diverse data sources, multi-domain applications, and heterogeneous systems and technologies. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an instrument to deal with complexity in both private and public organizations. The paper defines the concepts for modeling Smart Cities in ArchiMate, guided by a design-oriented research approach. Particularly, the focus of this paper is on the concepts for modeling city services and underlying information systems which are added to the EA metamodel. The metamodel is demonstrated in a real-world case and validated by Smart City domain experts. The findings suggest that these concepts are essential to achieve the Smart City strategy (e.g., city goals and objectives), as well as to meet the needs of different city stakeholders. Furthermore, an extension mechanism allows addressing the alignment of business and IT in complex environments such as Smart Cities, by adjusting EA metamodels and notations. This can help cities to design, visualize, and communicate architecture decisions when managing the transformation and digitalization of public services.
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    DESERV IT: A Method for Devolving Service Tasks in IT Services
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 63, No. 4, 2021) Baer, Florian; Sandkuhl, Kurt; Leyer, Michael; Lantow, Birger
    Nowadays, IT operations devolve many tasks in IT services to internal customers (i.e., IT self-service). The rationale for this service task devolvement is often to reduce the IT personnel’s workload. However, prior research has shown that IT operations often fail to achieve this goal. Existing methods for modeling and analyzing services fall short of supporting service providers in identifying and specifying service tasks suitable to be devolved to (internal) customers. This paper presents, therefore, the first method for devolving service tasks in IT services (DESERV IT). DESERV IT is a compound of four method components encompassing a joint meta-model, a visual notation for modeling IT services, and procedural recommendations. The DESERV IT meta-model extends the meta-model of service blueprinting by means of concepts required to analyze service task devolvement. DESERV IT is evaluated in four evaluation episodes. The results of the evaluation episodes show that DESERV IT is perceived as effective, useful, complete, and generalizable by experts in the IT service management and enterprise architecture discipline. This paper contributes to enterprise modeling by demonstrating the feasibility of DESERV IT in an example case and describing DESERV IT’s evolution during the evaluation episodes. DESERV IT supports practitioners (e.g., request fulfillment managers) in modeling and analyzing IT services.
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    Enterprise Modeling in Support of SOA Migration Analysis
    (Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures (EMISAJ) – International Journal of Conceptual Modeling: Vol. 13, Nr. 1, 2018) de Kinderen, Sybren; Kaczmarek-Heß, Monika
    This paper shows how enterprise modeling can support a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) migration analysis in terms of (1) IT infrastructure understanding, (2) identifying and refining candidate services by means of analyzing both the current IT infrastructure capabilities and business concerns, as well as (3) understanding how candidate services build on the current IT infrastructure. Based on requirements derived from a conducted literature study on SOA analysis and SOA migration projects, we identify the Multi-Perspective Enterprise Modeling (MEMO) method as a suitable language family to support a SOA migration analysis. Furthermore, we extend MEMO's language for IT infrastructure modeling, called ITML, with concepts central to SOA migration, and show how the modeling language can support key phases of a SOA migration project. We also provide a threefold evaluation of our SOA migration modeling approach by means of (1) application to documented SOA migration projects, (2) a scenario-based comparison with ArchiMate, another language that is a promising candidate for a SOA migration analysis, and (3) an assessment against the identified requirements. Finally, we discuss corresponding software tool support.
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    From Expert Discipline to Common Practice: A Vision and Research Agenda for Extending the Reach of Enterprise Modeling
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 60, No. 1, 2018) Sandkuhl, Kurt; Fill, Hans-Georg; Hoppenbrouwers, Stijn; Krogstie, John; Matthes, Florian; Opdahl, Andreas; Schwabe, Gerhard; Uludag, Ömer; Winter, Robert
    The benefits of enterprise modeling (EM) and its contribution to organizational tasks are largely undisputed in business and information systems engineering. EM as a discipline has been around for several decades but is typically performed by a limited number of people in organizations with an affinity to modeling. What is captured in models is only a fragment of what ought to be captured. Thus, this research note argues that EM is far from its maximum potential. Many people develop some kind of model in their local practice without thinking about it consciously. Exploiting the potential of this “grass roots modeling� could lead to groundbreaking innovations. The aim is to investigate integration of the established practices of modeling with local practices of creating and using model-like artifacts of relevance for the overall organization. The paper develops a vision for extending the reach of EM, identifies research areas contributing to the vision and proposes elements of a future research agenda.
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    Modeling Simultaneous Cooperation and Competition Among Enterprises
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 60, No. 1, 2018) Pant, Vik; Yu, Eric
    Coopetition (simultaneous cooperation and competition) between organizations has emerged as a prominent and critical industrial practice that allows organizations to increase combined welfare through cooperation while maximizing individual gains through competition. The formulation and enactment of such an organizational strategy entails designing and operating information systems that maximize benefits while minimizing costs from concomitant cooperation and competition. Coopetition raises new concerns and considerations about the design of data, processes, and interfaces of information systems. Analyzing coopetition can be challenging since cooperation and competition are paradoxical social behaviors that are undergirded by contradictory logics, hypotheses, and assumptions. Therefore, the ability of decision-makers to represent and reason about coopetition in a structured and systematic manner can be beneficial as it can support their efforts to co-design organizational strategies and information systems. This paper presents insights about the initial stages of an exploratory research project that is focused on the development of a modeling framework to support representation and reasoning of interorganizational coopetitive strategies. The objectives of this paper are to outline the goals of this research project which include: (1) identifying the primary characteristics for modeling and analyzing coopetitive relationships, as well as (2) proposing artefacts for expressing and evaluating these relationships.
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    Organisations- und Technologieoptionen des Geschäftsprozessmanagements aus der Perspektive des Web 2.0
    (Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 52, No. 1, 2010) Vanderhaeghen, Dominik; Fettke, Peter; Loos, Peter
    In betriebswirtschaftlichen Handlungssystemen herrscht vielfach eine erhebliche Dynamik, die von bisherigen Ansätzen des Prozessmanagements nur unzureichend berücksichtigt wird. Dagegen eröffnet die Perspektive des Web 2.0 vielfältige neue Handlungsoptionen für das Prozessmanagement. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden neue Organisations- und Technologieoptionen des Prozessmanagements mithilfe eines gestaltungsorientierten Forschungsansatzes herausgearbeitet. Die Ausführungen berücksichtigen besonders die Aspekte der Selbstorganisation und der kollektiven Intelligenz im Prozessmanagement. Die neuen Handlungsoptionen werden konzeptionell entwickelt und anhand einer prototypisch entwickelten Plattform zum Prozessmanagement illustriert. Abgerundet werden die Ergebnisse durch eine Darstellung realer Anwendungsszenarien in der Baubranche und Ergebnissen einer Evaluation des gestaltungsorientierten Forschungsansatzes.AbstractCorporate operational systems are often highly dynamic, a fact which is only insufficiently taken into account by recent process management approaches. In contrast, the perspective of Web 2.0 opens up new options for action in process management. In this contribution, we will identify new organizational and technological options of process management using a design-oriented research approach. The analysis especially considers the aspects of self-organization and collective intelligence in process management. We conceptually develop options for action and illustrate them based on a prototype platform for process management. The results are completed by a presentation of real-world application scenarios in the construction industry and results of an evaluation of the design-oriented research approach.
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    OT Modeling: The Enterprise Beyond IT
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 61, No. 4, 2019) Lara, Paola; Sánchez, Mario; Villalobos, Jorge
    Enterprises are composed of an enormous number of elements (e.g., organizational units, human resources, production processes, and IT systems) typically classified in the business or the IT domain. However, some crucial elements do not belong in either group: they are directly responsible for producing and delivering the company's goods and services and include all the elements that support day to day operations. Collectively, these elements have been called operational technologies (OT) and have been conspicuously excluded from enterprise modeling (EM) approaches which traditionally have focused on the business and IT dimensions. Evidence of this is the absence of OT elements in languages and metamodels for EM. This is in line with the historical division between IT and OT in organizations that has led to information silos, independent teams, and disparate technologies that only recently have started to be reconciled. Considering that OT is critical to most productive organizations, and the benefits that EM brings to its understanding and improvement, it makes sense to expand EM to include OT. For that purpose, this paper proposes an extension to ArchiMate 3.0 which includes crucial OT elements. On top of that, this paper also proposes an approach to further expand ArchiMate to address specific industries where more specific OT elements are required. This is illustrated in the paper with an extension for the Oil and Gas case that was validated with experts belonging to five companies in the sector.
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    The Development and Experimental Evaluation of a Focused Business Model Representation
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 57, No. 1, 2015) Roelens, Ben; Poels, Geert
    Business models (BM) are the central concept to understand the business logic of an organization. Enterprise modeling contributes to the conceptualization of BMs by providing explicit representations. A proper BM representation helps to increase the understanding and communication about the underlying knowledge for the stakeholders within a company. However, the existing enterprise modeling languages have a different and partial focus on the BM concept due to their various backgrounds. This prevents the large-scale adoption of these representations in practice. Therefore a focused BM viewpoint is developed, which explicitly facilitates the understanding about the underlying BM components. To this end, existing diagrams of the value delivery modeling language were adapted to prescriptions of the physics of notations, which is a normative theory for cognitive effectiveness of diagrammatic representations. The effect on the understanding was evaluated by an experiment with 93 master students. The results confirm the research hypothesis that the new BM viewpoint increases the understanding of the modeled BM components.