For five years now, the Open Models Laboratory organizes a Summerschool with the focus on Enterprise Modeling. This year, Prof. Stirna and Dr. lantow have been invited to join the organization. Thus, a workshop on participatory Enterprise Modeling und 4EM with selected students from Europe, Asia, Africa, and America took place on July 18th 2018. The participants praised the practicality of the approach.
Abstract:
Companies are often involved in Enterprise Modeling (EM) activities that address various business problems usually relayed to business and IT development or improvement of the quality of business operations. This can be done from a number of perspectives, e.g., strategy (goals, challenges, opportunities), business operations (processes, actors, resources), information (concepts, products), information technology (requirements, components), etc. However, to develop efficient solutions and to ensure their fit, all of these perspectives need to be analyzed in an integrated way, which is a core principle of EM. In practice, EM activities often involve groups of people, i.e. the models are created in a participatory way. This presentation will discus participatory EM and the 4EM method with a particular focus on modeling business strategies.