Enterprise modelling: a methodology and case study of the definition of requirements for an IT tool for business integration

Abstract

Enterprise Modelling has emerged in an attempt to take a more holistic view of organisations and today it is widely used to describe all activities of modelling any pertinent aspect of an organisation’s structure and operation in order to improve or reposition selected parts of the organisation. This paper first after proposing guidelines for the selection of the right modelling method, it presents an Enterprise Modelling structured methodology based on the combined use of the IDEF0 modelling technique and the Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) and a case study for modelling the entire operation of a British organisation and defining the requirement for a collaborative working software.