Managing Change through Enterprise Models
This paper was presented at Expert Systems 94, the Fourteenth Annual Technical Conference of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems, Cambridge, December 1994. It appears in the proceedings: R Milne and A Montgomery (eds), Applications and Innovations in Expert Systems II, SGES Publications, 1994.
Abstract
In this paper we present a perspective on enterprise modelling which is emerging under the Enterprise project. Enterprise modelling can be used as a catch-all title to describe the activity of modelling any pertinent aspect of an organisation. We present a more restricted use of the term, which implies the need to focus on the organisation as a whole: taking a more "total systems'' approach. We describe the main motivations for enterprise modelling. We identify features of enterprise models and suggest how they might be used. A key element which we discuss is the use of an ontology which permits the interchange of information and knowledge between different users, tasks and systems. Finally we give a high level view of a computer toolset to support enterprise modelling.
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