Argumentation for explicit representation of control within enterprise modelling and integration

Abstract

The paper addresses the necessity and rationale to take enterprise control into account explicitly in order to ensure that the implemented architecture enables to get the level of performance required by the strategy of the company. To control a system that cannot be entirely formalised and modelled, it is necessary to provide a set of decision-makers with co-ordination links between them. Focusing on control means focusing on decision-making and on the role of man in modern industrial systems as well. Man-based decision-making oriented enterprise control is proposed as a complementary approach with respect to formalised views used in enterprise modelling and integration. The purpose of this paper is only to argue this proposition and not to give operational means to do so. © 2003 by Springer Science+Business Media New York.