Enterprise Modeling Tackling Business Challenges with the 4EM Method /

• Main Authors: Sandkuhl, Kurt (Author), Stirna, Janis (Author), Persson, Anne (Author), Wißotzki, Matthias (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: The Enterprise Engineering Series,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Management information systems.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Enterprise Architecture.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.

Enterprise modeling (EM) methods and techniques are indispensable for understanding the present situation of an enterprise and for preparing for its future – particularly in times of continuous organizational change, an increasing pace of innovation, new market challenges, or technology advances. Th...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Business Challenges – and How Enterprise Modeling Helps
• Terms and Concepts in Enterprise Modeling
• Elicitation Approaches in Enterprise Modeling
• Enterprise Modeling Tools
• E-Commerce Case Study
• Overview of the 4EM Method
• Sub-models of 4EM
• Project Organization and Roles
• Supplying the Modeling Project with Competent Modeling Experts
• Adoption of Enterprise Modeling
• Quality of Enterprise Models
• Reuse of Enterprise Models
• Selected Enterprise Modeling Approaches
• Frameworks and Reference Architectures
• Outlook.