Authors:
Philip Huysmans
;
Dieter Van Nuffel
and
Peter De Bruyn
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Keyword(s):
Normalized Systems, Enterprise Ontology, Business Process Modeling, Enterprise Engineering.
Abstract:
Both Enterprise Ontology and Normalized Systems can be considered as design theories, which provide prescriptive guidelines to design systems. Enterprise Ontology explicitly focuses on the design of organizations as being social systems. Originally, Normalized Systems focused on the design of evolvable software systems. However, it has been shown that, building on the Normalized Systems design knowledge, prescriptions for other domains, such as the business process domain, can be proposed as well. This domain seems to overlap at least partially with the domain of Enterprise Ontology, which is used to establish claims concerning process design in various publications. However, both theories are based on completely different kernel theories. Therefore, this paper analyzes to which extent the guidelines proposed for the Normalized Systems Business Processes are consistent, complementing or conflicting with prescriptions from Enterprise Ontology. A consistent set of prescriptions could l
ead to a more integrated approach for designing integrated organizations, business processes and software systems.
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