Evolution of an enterprise modeling method - Next generation improvements of EKD

Abstract

The field of Enterprise Modeling (EM) consists of many methods and method development is one of the key activity areas of EM practitioners and researchers. This paper ponders on future improvements for one EM method, namely Enterprise Knowledge Development (EKD). A number of improvements to the EKD method are identified and discussed, based on empirical observations. The improvements fall into four categories: the modeling language, the modeling process, tool support, and other improve- ments. The paper can be seen as a step towards a new and improved version of EKD. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2012.