Advances in Enterprise Engineering II

Jan L.G. Dietz is professor in Information Systems Design at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) since 1994, after having been professor in MIS at the University of Maastricht for 6 years. He holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science, and has practitioned business automation for 10 years. He has published over 200 scientific and professional articles as well as several books. His current research interests are in Enterprise Engineering, Enterprise Architectures and Enterprise Information Systems Ontology.

the virtually unlimited possibilities of modern information and communication technology. Future enterprises will therefore have to operate in an ever more dynamic and global environment. They need to be more agile, more adaptive, and more transparent. In addition, they will be held more publicly accountable for every e?ect they produce. These challenges are traditionally addressed by black-box thinking-based knowledge, i.e., knowledge concerning the function and the behavior of ent- prises, as contained in the organizational sciences. Such knowledge is su?cient, and perfectly adequate, for managing an enterprise (within the range of c- trol). However, it is de?nitely inadequate for changing an enterprise. In order to bring about changes, white-box-based knowledge is needed, i.e., knowledge concerning the construction and the operation of enterprises. Developing and applying such knowledge requires no less than a paradigm shift in our thi- ing about enterprises, since the organizational sciences are dominantly oriented toward organizational behavior, based on black-box thinking.

A Holistic Software Engineering Method for Service-Oriented Application Landscape Development.- Empowering Full Scale Straight Through Processing with BPM.- Progressing an Organizational Approach to BPM: Integrating Experience from Industry and Research.- Collaborative Enterprise Modeling.- Assessing the Efficiency of the Enterprise Architecture Function.- Business Value of Solution Architecture.- Quality Enhancement in Creating Enterprise Architecture: Relevance of Academic Models in Practice.- Architecture-Driven Requirements Engineering.- Informed Governance of Enterprise Transformations.- Strategy and Architecture - Reconciling Worldviews.- Measuring the Risks of Outsourcing: Experiences from Industry.