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the modelling views, depending of the invoked
context (figure 5).
Modeling the organization by the business actor
point of view corresponds to the particular way that
someone sees the organization. The organization
view, it is normally leaner, it is a kind of workflow
that abstracts itself from details. In the IS view, it is
necessary to capture also the activities that are only
explicit in its modelling space, like support activities
(e.g. back ups) and the context in which the IS’s
were developed (not always the IS supports
activities for which it were designed for, they tend to
be adapted for new necessities – and this is an
important information, even to measure alignments)
4 CONCLUSIONS
The prototype presented is still a first step in a more
ambitious project, with respect to the information
presented and, mainly, with respect to the number of
exceptions that can be treated. But it demonstrates
that is possible to maintain the As-Is model updated,
through the information given by each business actor
(workers and Owners), which promotes the
communication possibilities and necessities among
several actors, horizontally and vertically (with the
implementation of the observation points,
materialized here through the owners).
The idea, with these results, is to develop a more
complex generalization, which should identify all
the requirements to develop an As-Is model
manager. This will need the identification of all
types of exceptions that might occur, the
identification of the necessary information to make
the As-Is model executable (objects attributes,
operations, states, events, etc.) and the suitability to
adapt it to all types of organizations.
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