On Ontologies And Enterprise Modelling
Mark S. Fox · 2002
From a design perspective, an enterprise model should provide the language used to explicitly define an enterprise. We need to be able to explore alternative models in the design of enterprises spanning organisation structure and behaviour. In order to reason about alternative designs for enterprises, we need to reason about different possible sets of constraints for enterprises within the model. We need to ask the questions -can a process be performed in a different way, or can we achieve some goal in a different way? Can we relax the constraints in the enterprise such that we can improve performance or achieve new goals?