Structural Coupling, Strategy and Fractal Enterprise Modeling

Identity Management in an Institution of Higher Education: A Case Study Using Structural Coupling and Fractal Enterprise Model

“…This project has already had a number of cycles of the Problem seeking type in the classification from [16], where FEM was tested for solving various problems. In respect to the FEM project, the current article continues the works started by [12] and [13], which have extended FEM in a way that it becomes possible to use it in combination with the concept of structural coupling.…”

“…• Structural couplings of an organization can be identified through analysis of FEM for this organization. In this article, we do it by following the rules suggested in [13], extending their set when it shows to be insufficient for our example. • The model, in which structural couplings are identified, can be used in decision-making related to identity management.…”

“…In this section, we give an informal overview of the Fractal Enterprise Models (FEM) introduced in our earlier works, especially in [11], and in the extended form in [13]. The basic version of FEM includes three types of elements: business processes (more exactly, business process types), assets, and relations between them, see Figure 3, in which a fragment of a model describing operational activities of DSV is presented.…”

“…Though FEM already existed at the time we worked on [10], it did not have enough concepts to cover structural couplings. In the latest works [12], [13], FEM has been extended with new concepts that allows to use it for identifying structural couplings. In this article, we use the same business case and the same decisions that were analyzed in [10], but we do it in a different way.…”

“…Due to having the same topic, business case and examples, the current article can be considered as an extension of [10]. At the same time, it can be considered as continuation of [13], as it adds additional rules to how identify structural couplings based on FEM.…”