Towards a GOD-theory for organizational engineering

Abstract

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.

Conformance Analysis of Organizational Models

“…The management approach of enterprise architectures (EA) from TU Lisbon [156,157,158,43,158,19,159,40,21,20,18,41,115,167] is about modeling information system architectures (ISA) and about the modeling method itself. The approach uses a high-level meta-model, the CEO framework, and renes this into ve views as there is an organizational view, a business view, an information view, a system's application view and a system's technological view.…”