Enterprise Modelling

An enterprise model is a computational representation of the structure, activities, processes, information, people, behaviour, goals and constraints of a business, government or other enterprise. An enterprise model can be both descriptive and definitional and it may cover both ’what is’ and ’what should be’. The role of an enterprise model is to achieve model-driven enterprise design, analysis, control3 and evaluation. We will begin by considering these applications of enterprise modelling and the requirements that they impose on any formal approach to the representation and specification of enterprise models.