Author:
Yves Caseau
Affiliation:
Bouygues Telecom, France
Keyword(s):
Enterprise modelling, Business process, Simulation, Communication flows, Organization theory.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
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Applications
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Artificial Intelligence
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Bioinformatics
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Biomedical Engineering
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Decision Support Systems
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Globalization and Productivity
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Information Systems Analysis and Specification
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Management Sciences
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Mathematical Modeling
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Methodologies and Technologies
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Operational Research
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Pattern Recognition
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Simulation
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Software Engineering
Abstract:
This paper presents a computational model of a generic enterprise (BPEM, which stands for Business Process Enterprise Model), based upon the core concept of business process. BPEM may be seen as a bridge between two worlds of “Enterprise Models”, the world of mathematical models, formal and fully operational for optimization purposes and the world of conceptual models (boxes & arrows type) for management science, for reasoning and communicating about what a company is. Our model was built as the minimal and most elegant model that is detailed enough to investigate difficult management science issues such as the influence of hierarchical organization on performance, the optimal usage of various communication channels or the benefits of lean-management-style control of processes. BPEM is organized around four concepts: business processes, capabilities that encapsulate resource management, hierarchical and transverse management organization, as well as information flows that are require
d to run business processes.
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