Overview
- Details the foundations of enterprise ontology by presenting and discussing its underlying theories
- Includes numerous exercises and practical applications
- Provides unprecedented deep insight into and broad overview over complex organisational transformations
Part of the book series: The Enterprise Engineering Series (TEES)
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Keywords
- Enterprise Engineering
- EIS – Enterprise Information Systems
- Enterprise Modeling
- Conceptual Modeling
- Enterprise Ontologies
- Taxonomies and Vocabularies
About this book
Enterprise ontology is one of the conceptual pillars of enterprise engineering, next to enterprise design and enterprise governance, together accomplishing the goals of intellectual manageability, organisational concinnity and social devotion. By revealing the essence of an enterprise’s organisation, enterprise ontology addresses business processes, data and rules in a fundamental and truly integrated way. In addition, it provides deep insight into and broad overview over complex organisational transformations.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I is an introduction in enterprise engineering and enterprise ontology. Part II explores the theories underlying enterprise ontology, explaining the foundations of each theory, the elaborations in practical methods and techniques, and the relationships with other comparable approaches. Part III presents the practical application of the theories. It includes a comprehensive summary of the DEMO methodology and the DEMO specification language, as well as exercises and applications of DEMO in various business areas. It also features a chapter on combining DEMO with comparable approaches to modelling business processes, data and rules, to the benefit of the latter. This second edition comprises two major improvements, driven by increased theoretical precision and further practical experience with DEMO. One is the clear separation between documents or data sets and the files that carry them, the other one is the re-positioning of the input data in the action rules.
Discussing the theoretical foundations of enterprise ontology and its practical applications in equal measure, this book is the principal textbook in courses on enterprise engineering. Since it unites elements from management science and information systems engineering, it is also relevant to students and professionals in either field.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Hans B. F. Mulder is an entrepreneur and founder of Viagroep nv, Research Director at the Standish Group, Executive Professor at the Antwerp Management School and lecturer at the Police Academy of the Netherlands. He is regularly engaged as an IT expert when conflicts between companies need to be resolved in or out of court, such as participating in arbitration, mediation and expert reports.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enterprise Ontology
Book Subtitle: A Human-Centric Approach to Understanding the Essence of Organisation
Authors: Jan L. G. Dietz, Hans B. F. Mulder
Series Title: The Enterprise Engineering Series
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53360-0Due: 29 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53361-7Due: 29 June 2024
Series ISSN: 1867-8920
Series E-ISSN: 1867-8939
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 475
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 189 illustrations in colour