Collaborative, Participative and Interactive Enterprise Modeling

A Study on Tangible Participative Enterprise Modelling

“…Advantages of tangible modelling can be related to evolutionary capabilities of human beings with regard to interacting with their physical surroundings. Psychological research has shown that by reducing cognitive load [14,23] and improving cognitive fit [25], physical representations are easier to understand and manipulate [1]. This agrees with constructivist theories of learning, which maintain that learning takes place in project-based learning rather than in one-way communication, and that this is most effective when people create tangible objects in the real world [2].…”

“…At the same time, the perception of increased duration contradicts our earlier research, where tangible modelling was observed to be faster than computer-based modelling. Results also show that collaborative modelling may increase the effort required for modelling, contrary to [1,6]. One explanation of this is that our earlier results [10] used iconic physical tokens, i.e.…”

“…Recently, practitioners and researchers have advocated the potential of participative EM approaches, both in terms of promoting stakeholder agreement and commitment, as well as in producing higher quality models [1,4] In other studies, tangible modelling approaches -in which physical tokens represent conceptual models -were found to be faster, easier and more interactive compared to a computer-supported approaches, where diagrams on a screen were manipulated [5,8,10]. In this paper we extend studies on tangible modelling to the EM domain by combining participative EM and tangible modeling in a hybrid approach.…”

“…Stirna et al [21] claim that active involvement of workshop participants into modelling allows to generate models of a better quality and also increase understanding and commitment to the created models among the participants. Barjis [1] provides evidence that participation and interaction among stakeholders enables more effective and efficient model derivation and increases the validity of models. Front et al [6] points out that a participative approach enables more efficient data acquisition and better understanding of enterprise processes.…”

Practical Challenges of Enterprise Modeling in the Light of Business and IT Alignment

“…The first group of stakeholders consists of enterprise employees who have to share and exchange their knowledge about enterprise operations (domain knowledge). There are various factors that can hinder the process of sharing knowledge between enterprise members, for example, as the project progresses the enterprise becomes less interested to allocate their most knowledgeable human resources to modeling sessions, since it can be considered as waste of time Barjis, [9]. The second party of EM is the EM practitioner -a person who facilitates and drives EM project process (partly or fully) towards effectively achieving its goals Persson and Stirna,[10].…”