Enterprise engineering

Enterprise engineering is the body of knowledge, principles, and practices used to design all or part of an enterprise.[1] An enterprise is a complex socio-technical system that comprises people, information, and technology that interact with each other and their environment in support of a common mission. One definition is: "an enterprise life-cycle oriented discipline for the identification, design, and implementation of enterprises and their continuous evolution",[2] supported by enterprise modelling. The discipline examines each aspect of the enterprise, including business processes, information flows, material flows, and organizational structure.[3] Enterprise engineering may focus on the design of the enterprise as a whole, or on the design and integration of certain business components.[4]

  1. ^ R.E. Giachetti (2010). Design of Enterprise Systems: Theory, Methods, and Architecture. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
  2. ^ Kosanke, 1999
  3. ^ Jan Dietz (2006). Enterprise Ontology - Theory and Methodology. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
  4. ^ De Vries, Marne, Aurona Gerber, and Alta van der Merwe. In: Aveiro D., Tribolet J., Gouveia D. (eds) "The Nature of the Enterprise Engineering Discipline." Advances in Enterprise Engineering VIII. Springer International Publishing, 2014. p. 1-15.