The Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC) has been an established event for research and practice in the field of enterprise modeling for many years. For its 10th anniversary, an event in Bolzano (Italy) was originally planned, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is now held online. An important part of the program are invited lectures by renowned experts. This year, this includes a contribution by Kurt Sandkuhl on "Radical Digitalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Enterprise Modeling", scheduled for November 9, 2020.
Abstract:
Digitalization and digital transformation have been an important topic for a lot industries and application domains during the last years. In many enterprises, the result is a long list of digitalization projects – some of them completed, many still ongoing – and doubts about long-term benefits. Where are the disruptive effects of digital transformation?
Radical digitalization is a way of (re-)focusing on innovation opportunities with strategic and long-term effects for an enterprise. In practice, this requires definition of problems and goals, changes in business model, design of new processes and services – and much more that can be supported by enterprise modeling. The resulting challenges and opportunities for enterprise modeling are analyzed in the talk. The perspective taken is the practice of enterprise modeling rather than new theoretical approaches.