Applying Architecture and Ontology to the Splitting and Allying of Enterprises: Problem Definition and Research Approach

Land, Martin Op ’t

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“…From several approaches to support OE being proposed, DEMO seems to be one of the most coherent, comprehensive, consistent and concise [2]. It has shown to be useful in a number of applications, from small to large scale organizationssee, for example, [13] and [14] (p. 39). Nevertheless, DEMO suffers from the shortcoming referred above.…”

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“…Nevertheless, DEMO suffers from the shortcoming referred above. Namely, DEMO models have been mostly used to devise blueprints to serve as instruments for discussion of broader scale organizational change or development/change of IT systems [14] (p. 58) and does not, yet, provide modeling constructs and a method for a continuous update of its models as reality changes, driven by exceptions.…”

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Towards a GOD-theory for organizational engineering

Aveiro

Silva

Tribolet

2010

Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Much time is lost, in organizations, in the handling of unknown exceptions because organizational models are not current or coherent with reality and there is a lack of concepts and methods in organizational engineering (OE), for a continuous and timely update of models of organizational reality. To address these problems, a renowned methodology for OE -DEMO (Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations) and its underlying theory are improved and extended enabling a precise and integrated modeling of three aspects that we consider to be part of the function perspective of an organization: (1) viability -specification of vital norms of operation that ensure the viability of the organization, dysfunctions and their causing exceptions, (2) changespecification of the organizational engineering processes responsible for Generation, Operation and Discontinuation of organizational artifacts (OAs) -for example, business rules or organizational actors -in order to solve dysfunctions and (3) architecture -specification of design rules that guide the referred engineering processes, restricting the "shape" of their end result -OAs.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Towards a GOD-theory for organizational engineering

Aveiro

Silva

Tribolet

2010

Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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“…The CIAO [4] research program "Applying Architecture and Ontology to the Splitting and Allying of Enterprises" [14] aims at finding validated principles and organization construction rules, whose application leads to adequate splitting of enterprises. We define an enterprise as a goal-oriented cooperative of people and means.…”

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Enterprise ontology based splitting and contracting of organizations

Land

Dietz

2008

Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Our research program aims at finding and testing principles for deciding on organization splits and starting cooperation over the split. We tested a method to make underpinned choices on the organization split and to ensure completeness in contracting. Using actors from Enterprise Ontology as organization building blocks of a Dutch governmental agency, experts constructed their own gut feeling organization split and systematically listed (a) ownership of assets (b) quality of business and information services and (c) critical chain-dependencies. The proposed organization split is, confirming an earlier experiment, quite close to graph theory based calculated alternatives. The listing of contracting items helped to determine in a fast and shared way subsequent implementation steps, e.g., ensuring mutual information supply and formulating performance indicators.

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“…A series of case studies [e.g., 16,22,23] of real-life reorganizations, organizational splits, post-merger integration and application portfolio rationalization has been published, in which DEMO is the core modeling method to support decision-making. These studies also report a tremendous ROME (Return On Modeling Effort).…”

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Benefits of Enterprise Ontology in Governing Complex Enterprise Transformations

Land

Dietz

2012

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. Enterprises increasingly execute complex transformations, such as mergers and splits, chain redesign, sharing and sourcing, and the rationalization of products, processes and applications. Its consequences are seldom sufficiently timely and completely discerned, while this is essential for governing such a transformation. Already in a small example we can see why Enterprise Ontology, as defined in DEMO (Design & Engineering Methodology for Organizations) delivers a clear and valuable instrument for transformation governance. Especially DEMO's Construction Model, which is the most abstract ontological aspect model, combines high expressiveness with a high Return On Modeling Effort (ROME).Keywords: Enterprise Transformation, Governance, Enterprise Ontology, DEMO, Enterprise Engineering, ROME. IntroductionHeraclitus' saying "The only constant is change" (500 BC) [13] certainly applies to enterprises 1 . We observe an increasing need to perform better in "profit -peopleplanet", especially in the recent economic crisis. Enterprise activities are shared, insourced, out-sourced, off-shored and back-sourced again. They split up and merge. After giving room for regional autonomy, application portfolio rationalization programs are executed. All these attempt to save costs, improve quality and increase agility, which should ultimately lead to unique advantages in customer intimacy, product leadership and operational excellence [31].The impact of such change-decisions is generally complex and large. Many stakeholders have to be reckoned with, the constraints and opportunities of laws and regulations have to be taken into account, and relevant parties in the chain need to be actively involved. The changes will not only affect products, processes and ICT 2 applications, but also the enterprises' economy and organization. Therefore, such changes call for a well-governed enterprise transformation. To this end, a fundamental 1 We use the term "enterprise" for any goal-oriented cooperative of people. 2 ICT stands for Information and Communication Technology.The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com Enterprise Ontology, as adopted in DEMO 3 [11], reveals the essential, deep structure of an organization. A series of case studies [e.g., 16, 22, 23] of real-life reorganizations, organizational splits, post-merger integration and application portfolio rationalization has been published, in which DEMO is the core modeling method to support decision-making. These studies also report a tremendous ROME (Return On Modeling Effort). We found particularly that DEMO's systematic and reproducible abstractions from the realization and implementation of organizations are beneficial. Taking OMG's EU-Rent Case [20, 18] as an example, we will illustrate the identified benefits and make plausible that applying DEMO provides the required understanding for intellectually manage enterprise transformations, and to do this in 10% of the time commonly used.The remainder of this paper is structured as follows. Section 2 categ...

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Applying Architecture and Ontology to the Splitting and Allying of Enterprises: Problem Definition and Research Approach

Cited by 18 publications

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Towards a GOD-theory for organizational engineering

Towards a GOD-theory for organizational engineering

Enterprise ontology based splitting and contracting of organizations

Benefits of Enterprise Ontology in Governing Complex Enterprise Transformations

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