http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10603 2026-07-21T13:55:12Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10620 The Development and Experimental Evaluation of a Focused Business Model Representation Roelens, Ben; Poels, Geert Business models (BM) are the central concept to understand the business logic of an organization. Enterprise modeling contributes to the conceptualization of BMs by providing explicit representations. A proper BM representation helps to increase the understanding and communication about the underlying knowledge for the stakeholders within a company. However, the existing enterprise modeling languages have a different and partial focus on the BM concept due to their various backgrounds. This prevents the large-scale adoption of these representations in practice. Therefore a focused BM viewpoint is developed, which explicitly facilitates the understanding about the underlying BM components. To this end, existing diagrams of the value delivery modeling language were adapted to prescriptions of the physics of notations, which is a normative theory for cognitive effectiveness of diagrammatic representations. The effect on the understanding was evaluated by an experiment with 93 master students. The results confirm the research hypothesis that the new BM viewpoint increases the understanding of the modeled BM components. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10623 Capability Driven Development: An Approach to Designing Digital Enterprises Bērziša, Solvita; Bravos, George; Gonzalez, Tania Cardona; Czubayko, Ulrich; España, Sergio; Grabis, Jānis; Henkel, Martin; Jokste, Lauma; Kampars, Jânis; Koç, Hasan; Kuhr, Jan-Christian; Llorca, Carlos; Loucopoulos, Pericles; Pascual, Raul Juanes; Pastor, Oscar; Sandkuhl, Kurt; Simic, Hrvoje; Stirna, Janis; Valverde, Francisco Giromé; Zdravkovic, Jelena The need for organizations to operate in changing environments is addressed by proposing an approach that integrates organizational development with information system (IS) development taking into account changes in the application context of the solution. This is referred to as Capability Driven Development (CDD). A meta-model representing business and IS designs consisting of goals, key performance indicators, capabilities, context and capability delivery patterns, is being proposed. The use of the meta-model is validated in three industrial case studies as part of an ongoing collaboration project, whereas one case is presented in the paper. Issues related to the use of the CDD approach, namely, CDD methodology and tool support are also discussed. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10622 Designing the Shift from Information Systems to Information Services Systems Ralyté, Jolita; Khadraoui, Abdelaziz; Léonard, Michel Service-oriented paradigm is emerging as a promising solution to handle enterprise information systems (IS) complexity, interoperability, and evolution issues. However, the shift from a conventional IS architecture to a service-oriented one is not an easy task. Various approaches have been proposed in the literature and most of them deal with either business strategic service design or a technical level IS transformation and migration. There is a need for approaches forming the link between these two levels and designing the information level transformations. In the paper, the concepts of information service and information services system (ISS) are promoted and three different ways to design information services and ISS are proposed taking into account enterprise legacy IS evolution. The three approaches are illustrated with examples taken from industrial projects and case studies. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/10621 Crossing the Line: Overcoming Knowledge Boundaries in Enterprise Transformation Abraham, Ralf; Aier, Stephan; Winter, Robert Enterprise transformations are fundamental changes in an organization. Such changes typically affect different stakeholder groups (e.g., program managers, business managers) that exhibit a significant diversity regarding their members’ knowledge, goals, and underlying assumptions. Yet, creating shared understanding among diverse stakeholder groups in transformations is a main antecedent for success. The paper analyzes which properties of enterprise architecture models contribute to syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic capacities which helps to create shared understanding among stakeholder groups involved in enterprise transformation. The differences among stakeholder groups are assessed through the lens of knowledge boundaries, and enterprise architecture models are assessed through the lens of boundary objects. A research model is developed and empirically tested that describes which boundary object properties are required to overcome three progressively complex knowledge boundaries – syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic. The findings show which boundary object properties contribute to a respective capacity needed to overcome each of the three knowledge boundaries. Specifically, the results show that for (1) a syntactic capacity, concrete and modular enterprise architecture (EA) models are helpful; (2) a semantic capacity, visual EA model properties are relevant, and (3) a pragmatic capacity, broad stakeholder participation is conductive. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z