BUSINESS MODELLING THROUGH ROADMAPS

Judith Barrios A., Jonás Montilva C

2004

Abstract

Business modelling is a central activity to many different areas, including Business Process Reengineering, Organisational Development, Enterprise Modelling & Integration, Business Process Management and Enterprise Application Integration. It is well known that the business domain is not easy to understand neither to represent even for specialised people. The success of most of the contemporary methods for modelling Business Organisations is strongly associated with the level of understanding that the modelling team can attain about the specific situation being modelled. This understanding is directly related with the degree of modelling experience that the team has, as well as their ability to work with the techniques and tools prescribed by a specific method. Nowadays, most of the existing business modelling methods is concentrated in what the business concepts are and how to represent them. But, they lack of process guidance, which is needed to help the team through the modelling process. We elaborated the method BMM for modelling business application domains that provides working guidelines for the modelling team. This method, based on method engineering concepts helps teams to, not only, get a comprehensive knowledge about the business domain being modelled, but also, about the process of modelling the domain itself. This paper concerns with the representation of the process of modelling a business by using decision oriented process model formalism. The main contribution of our work is a set of roadmaps that contains the knowledge associated with team member’s modelling experience in business modelling and EIS development. This knowledge arises from several case studies.

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Barrios A. J. and Montilva C J. (2004). BUSINESS MODELLING THROUGH ROADMAPS . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 348-355. DOI: 10.5220/0002611803480355


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Judith Barrios A. and Jonás Montilva C},
title={BUSINESS MODELLING THROUGH ROADMAPS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={348-355},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002611803480355},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - BUSINESS MODELLING THROUGH ROADMAPS
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Barrios A. J.
AU - Montilva C J.
PY - 2004
SP - 348
EP - 355
DO - 10.5220/0002611803480355