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E-MEMO: a method to support the development of customized electronic commerce systems

Authors: Ulrich Frank, Carola Lange

Published in: Information Systems and e-Business Management | Issue 2/2007

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In many industries structural change through E-Commerce is challenging firms to re-align their strategies as well as re-engineer their business processes with new competitive environments while taking advantage of technological opportunities. This article presents E-MEMO, a method for multi-perspective enterprise modelling with special emphasis on processes and technologies for E-Commerce. It serves to analyse and design corporate information systems that are balanced with a company’s E-Commerce strategy and its organisation. E-MEMO offers specific languages for modelling strategies, business processes, and related resources. In addition to that, it provides a library of reference models including strategy networks to guide strategic planning and models of business processes. In order to further support the implementation of information systems a transformation has been defined that allows for generating workflow schemata from business process models. Since design-oriented research is not predominant in the Information Systems field, the epistemological challenges of the chosen research approach are discussed, too.

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Title: E-MEMO: a method to support the development of customized electronic commerce systems
Authors: Ulrich Frank
Carola Lange
Publication date: 01-03-2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Information Systems and e-Business Management / Issue 2/2007
Print ISSN: 1617-9846
Electronic ISSN: 1617-9854
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-006-0034-9

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