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- Zdravković, Milan, et al.
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Domain framework for implementation of open IoT ecosystems
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Journal of Production Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0020-7543 .- 1366-588X. ; 56:7, s. 2552-2569
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The current Internet-of-things (IoT) hype, pushed by the unprecedented rate of the technological enablers’ innovation, is threatening to leave behind some major, not so obvious, unresolved issues. IoT platforms will extend existing enterprise information systems (EIS) infrastructures to encompass cross-domain sensing and actuating capabilities, thus introducing additional complexity and major risks to the implementation. Furthermore, IoT platforms are typically driven by models of the trivial complexity; they support very simple data structures and almost no business logic implementation. Finally, IoT systems are today managed centrally, which often means less openness, less flexibility and greater change management costs. In this article, we provide the overview of the scientific disciplines which could contribute to the resolution of the IoT implementation problem, namely requirements engineering, change management/continuous improvement, model-based systems engineering, system architecture design, interoperability and policy and regulatory aspects. Then, we identify the challenges of these contributions in the context of IoT and finally make an attempt to identify research directions which could have a significant impact. The discussion of the challenges and opportunities is illustrated by the proposed domain framework for implementation of open IoT ecosystems.
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Advanced Information Systems Engineering : 27th International Conference, CAiSE 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, June 8-12, 2015, Proceedings
- 2015
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2015, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 2015.The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 236 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: social and collaborative computing; business process modeling and languages; high volume and complex information management; requirements elicitation and management; enterprise data management; model conceptualisation and evolution; process mining, monitoring and predicting; intra- and inter-organizational process engineering; process compliance and alignment; enterprise IT integration and management; and service science and computing. The book also contains the abstracts of 3 keynote speeches and 5 tutorials, presented at the conference.
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- Andersson, Birger, et al.
(författare)
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Aligning goal models and business models
- 2008
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Ingår i: CEUR Workshop Proc.. ; , s. 13-16
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper has argued that for an enterprise to be sustainable its operational processes should be aligned to its strategic goals. We have focused on a part of the complex issue of business and IT alignment by addressing the problems of aligning business models with goal models and a method for this was proposed. The method approach offers a number of benefits: clear and uniform goal model formulation, well founded business model design, and traceability between models.
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- Andersson, Birger, et al.
(författare)
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Aligning goals and services through goal and business modelling
- 2009
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Ingår i: Information Systems and E-Business Management. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1617-9846 .- 1617-9854. ; 7:2, s. 143-169
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- E-services are used as the cornerstones for modelling interaction points of cooperating IT systems, within and between enterprises. So far, research and development of e-services have mainly focused on an operational perspective, such as the development of standards for message exchanges and service coordination. However, on a strategic level, the success of e-services depends on their ability to work as a medium for the exchange of business values. In this paper, we present an approach that utilizes goal and business models as the foundation for designing e-services. The approach can be used to ensure that the developed e-services support the desired goals and business values of involved actors. A case study from the Swedish health care sector is used to ground and apply the presented approach.
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- Andersson, Birger, et al.
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Enterprise sustainability through the alignment of goal models and business models
- 2008
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Ingår i: CEUR Workshop Proc.. ; , s. 73-87, s. 73-87
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Business modelling can be used as a starting point for business analysis. The core of a business model is information about resources, events, agents, and their relations. The motivation of a business model can be found in the goals of an enterprise and those are made explicit in a goal model. This paper discusses the alignment of business models with goal models and proposes a method for constructing business models based on goal models. The method assists in the design of business models that conform to the explicit goals of an enterprise. Main benefits are clear and uniform goal formulations, well founded business model designs, and increased traceability between models.
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- Andersson, Birger, et al.
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From business to process models : A chaining methodology
- 2006
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems and Engineering (CAiSE’06).
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we discuss the problem of how to go from a business model to a process model in a systematic way. Business models are economic models used for business analysis, while process models capture low-level business activities and their coordination. We propose a method that starts with a business model where the main actors and their relationships are identified. This forms a basis for design of a final process model. Processes are described in terms of patterns stored in a pattern library.
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- Andersson, Birger, et al.
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Using strategic goal analysis for enhancing value-based business models
- 2007
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Ingår i: BUSITAL 2007 - 2nd International Workshop on Business/IT Alignment and Interoperability, Workshop at the 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2007. - 9788251922456
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Lately business models have been recognized as a foundation for design of operational business processes. The motivation of a business model can be found in the goals of an enterprise which are made explicit in a goal model. This paper discusses the alignment of business models with goal models and proposes a method for constructing business models based on goal models. The method is based on a template and rules based approach. The outputs are business models that conform to the explicit goals of an enterprise. Main benefits are uniform goal formulations, well founded business model designs, and increased traceability between the models. A case study from the health sector is used to argument the way we ground and apply our proposed method.
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- Berger-Reinhartz, Iris, et al.
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Guest editorial for EMMSAD’2019 special section
- 2021
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Ingår i: Software and Systems Modeling. - : Springer Nature. - 1619-1366 .- 1619-1374. ; 20, s. 25-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The EMMSAD (Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development) conference series organized 24 events from 1996 to 2019, associated with CAiSE (Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering). From 2009, EMMSAD has become a two-days working conference. From 2017, EMMSAD best papers are invited to submit extended versions for considering their publication in the Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM). The main topics of the EMMSAD series have the focus on models and modeling methods for software and information systems development, requirements engineering, enterprise modeling and architecture, and business process management. The conference further addresses evaluation of modeling methods through a variety of empirical and nonempirical approaches.
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- Berzisa, Solvita, et al.
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Capability Driven Development : An Approach to Designing Digital Enterprises
- 2015
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Ingår i: Business & Information Systems Engineering. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2363-7005 .- 1867-0202. ; 57:1, s. 15-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The need for organizations to operate in changing environments is addressed by proposing an approach that integrates organizational development with information system (IS) development taking into account changes in the application context of the solution. This is referred to as Capability Driven Development (CDD). A meta-model representing business and IS designs consisting of goals, key performance indicators, capabilities, context and capability delivery patterns, is being proposed. The use of themeta-model is validated in three industrial case studies as part of an ongoing collaboration project, whereas one case is presented in the paper. Issues related to the use of the CDD approach, namely, CDD methodology and tool support are also discussed.
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- Björck, Fredrik, et al.
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Cyber Resilience – Fundamentals for a Definition
- 2015
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Ingår i: New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319164854 - 9783319164861 ; , s. 311-316
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This short paper examines the concept of cyber resilience from an organizational perspective. Cyber resilience is defined as “the ability to continuously deliver the intended outcome despite adverse cyber events”, and this definition is systematically described and justified. The fundamental building blocks of cyber resilience are identified and analyzed through the contrasting of cyber resilience against cybersecurity with regards to five central characteristics.
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- Bork, Dominik, et al.
(författare)
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Enterprise Modeling for Machine Learning : Case-Based Analysis and Initial Framework Proposal
- 2023
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Ingår i: Research Challenges in Information Science: Information Science and the Connected World. - : Springer. - 9783031330797 - 9783031330803 ; , s. 518-525
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) continuously paves its way into even the most traditional business domains. This particularly applies to data-driven AI, like machine learning (ML). Several data-driven approaches like CRISP-DM and KKD exist that help develop and engineer new ML-enhanced solutions. A new breed of approaches, often called canvas-driven or visual ideation approaches, extend the scope by a perspective on the business value an ML-enhanced solution shall enable. In this paper, we reflect on two recent ML projects. We show that the data-driven and canvas-driven approaches cover only some necessary information for developing and operating ML-enhanced solutions. Consequently, we propose to put ML into an enterprise context for which we sketch a first framework and spark the role enterprise modeling can play.
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- Bravos, George, et al.
(författare)
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Deliverable 1.2 : Initial version of requirements specification for CDD
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The CaaS project will elaborate the Capability Driven Development (CDD) approach that will allow digital enterprises to exploit the notion of 'capability' as a means of both designing for services and with services. This deliverable defines an initial set of requirements for CDD. These requirements are provided by the industrial partners through exploration of their use cases. The goal of this deliverable is to identify potential benefits that the CaaS approach could bring to the use cases as well the features to be included the CDD methodology. The requirements are elicited from the use case partners during semi-structured interviews. They are documented in a form of goal models, actor models and concept models for each partner separately. Information documented in these models is used to define envisioned capabilities to be design and delivered during the project as well as to establish the scope of each use case. The use case scope definition focuses on use case goals, causes of capability delivery variability, capability delivery context, functions to be provided in the use case as well as potential capability delivery adjustments. The use case specific models are combined together to obtain a preliminary set of general requirements for CDD. These requirements show CDD goals, types of stakeholders, types of context and types of adjustments. The deliverable ends with concluding remarks about the partners’ expectations for CDD. The requirements for the use cases described in this deliverable will be further elaborated in the final requirements document deliverable D1.4 and will be iteratively refined during the use case elaboration performed in work packages WP2, WP3 and WP4.
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- Chan, Anouck, et al.
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Towards a New Method for Designing Manufacturing Capabilities
- 2024
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Ingår i: Digital Business and Intelligent Systems. - : Springer Nature. - 9783031635427 - 9783031635434 ; , s. 34-49
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many industries are experiencing the challenges and opportunities associated with the rapid pace of technological change. In manufacturing, the adoption of new materials and manufacturing processes is a common concern, for example, the use of new composite materials offer significant advantages in terms of energy efficiency and performance. However, their use poses challenges in terms of manufacturing and assembly. On the side of technological advances, the exploration of digitalisation, automation and robotics to improve efficiency is a strong trend. However, implementing these technologies requires investment and significant changes to existing assembly processes. To meet these challenges, fostering collaboration between design and manufacturing, as well as between manufacturer and its suppliers is often seen as the key solution for various industries. In this work, we present how capability modelling can help both parties to describe their demands and offers with respect to needed and provided quality properties such as set-up times or ecological footprint. These serve as input for a digital business ecosystem in which the pareto-optimal factory design can be chosen supported by a digital platform integrating the manufacturer and its suppliers.
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Conceptual Modeling : 42nd International Conference, ER 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, November 6–9, 2023, Proceedings
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during November 6-9, 2023. The 21 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. Additionally, the book contains 4 keynote speeches and 3 tutorials, and one invited paper corresponding to one of the keynote speeches.
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- Edirisuriya, Ananda, et al.
(författare)
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Aligning Goal and Value Models for Information System Design
- 2009
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Ingår i: E-TECHNOLOGIES-INNOVATION IN AN OPEN WORLD. - Berlin, Heidelberg : SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. - 9783642011863 ; , s. 126-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The success of process-aware information systems and web services heavily depends on their ability to work as catalysts for the business values that are being exchanged in a business model. The motivation of a business model can be found in the goals of an enterprise which are made explicit in a goal model. From the IT perspective, goal and business models form part of a chain of models, ending with an information system model. Thereby, analyzing and establishing the alignment of business models with goal models is a starting task on the way to a business-aware information system. This paper discusses the alignment of value-based business models with system-oriented goal models. The result is a set of transformation rules between the two models. A case study from the health sector is used to argument the way we ground and apply our contribution.
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- Edirisuriya, Ananda, et al.
(författare)
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Goal support towards Business Processes Modelling
- 2008
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Ingår i: IIT: 2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIONS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY . - NEW YORK : IEEE. - 9781424433964 ; , s. 559-563
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Enterprises employ goal models and process models in running their businesses, as well as when building information systems. A goal model is used to model the interests, intentions and strategies of different stakeholders. A process model is used to describe organizational business processes. An enterprise can benefit from using goal models to motivate the decisions when constructing process models. There are a number of comprehensive and accepted goal modelling languages, such as Business Motivation Model, i*, and KAOS. The purpose of the paper is to compare these goal modelling languages in the context of business process engineering.
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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling : Proceedings
- 2019
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book constitutes the proceedings of two events held at the CAiSE conference and relating to the areas of enterprise, business process and information systems modeling: The 20th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2019, and the 24th International Conference on Evaluation and Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2019. The conferences took place in Rome, Italy, in June 2019. BPMDS: large and complex business process modeling and development; execution and understandability of declarative process models; novel approaches in enterprise modeling; transformative business process modeling, development, and support. EMMSAD: foundations of modeling and method engineering; enterprise process and capability modeling; information systems and requirements modeling; domain-specific and ontology modeling; and evaluation of modeling approaches.
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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling : 21st International Conference, BPMDS 2020, 25th International Conference, EMMSAD 2020, Grenoble, France, June 8–9, 2020, Proceedings
- 2020. - 1
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book contains the proceedings of two long-running events held along with the CAiSE conference relating to the areas of enterprise, business-process and information systems modeling: the 21st International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS 2020) and the 25th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development (EMMSAD 2020). The two working conferences had a joint keynote on “Automated Process Improvement: Status, Challenges, and Perspectives” given by Marlon Dumas, Professor of Information Systems at Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu.
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- España, Sergio, et al.
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Strategies for Capability Modelling : Analysis Based on Initial Experiences
- 2015
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Ingår i: Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319192420 - 9783319192437 ; , s. 40-52
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Competitiveness and growth on an international market is for many businesses tightly coupled to their ability of quickly implementing new company strategies, business services and products or market entries. Capability management is among the approaches proposed to tackle these challenges. A feature is capturing the context of capability delivery and providing mechanisms for configuring the delivery. Among the work on capability management is the capability-driven design and delivery (CDD) approach that has been proposed by the EU-FP7 project CaaS. The aim of this paper is to contribute to CDD by (i) introducing different strategies for capability modelling, (ii) elaborating on the differences between these strategies, and (iii) contributing to an understanding of what strategy should be used under what preconditions. The paper addresses these aspects by describing the strategies and initial experiences gathered with them.
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- Franch, Xavier, et al.
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Data-Driven Agile Requirements Elicitation through the Lenses of Situational Method Engineering
- 2021
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Ingår i: 2021 IEEE 29th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE). - : IEEE. - 9781665428569 ; , s. 402-407
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ubiquitous digitalization has led to the continuous generation of large amounts of digital data, both in organizations and in society at large. In the requirements engineering community, there has been a growing interest in considering digital data as new sources for requirements elicitation, in addition to stake-holders. The volume, dynamics, and variety of data makes iterative requirements elicitation increasingly continuous, but also unstructured and complex, which current agile methods are unable to consider and manage in a systematic and efficient manner. There is also the need to support software evolution by enabling a synergy of stakeholder-driven requirements elicitation and management with data-driven approaches. In this study, we propose extension of agile requirements elicitation by applying situational method engineering. The research is grounded on two studies in the business domains of video games and online banking.
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- Georgiadis, Stylianos, et al.
(författare)
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An approach for eliciting requirements from digital sources in organisations using the Scrum method
- 2024
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Ingår i: Companion Proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling and the 13th Enterprise Design and Engineering Working Conference, November 28 – December 1, 2023, Vienna, Austria.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The business world is nowadays characterized by complexity due to rapidly evolving market and customer requirements. As a consequence, software providers are facing the challenge of delivering products with higher pace and innovation. The agile methodology has a big impact on how software systems are developed - it should facilitate business value in short iterations. Requirements are the base of all software systems, and consequently, Requirements Engineering (RE) plays one of the most important roles in system development. Traditional elicitation techniques relying on stakeholders’ requests do not cover the increasing demands for considering unintended data from organisations' related digital sources, internal (transaction logs, sensors) or external (e.g., microblogs), amplifying thus the need for the elicitation of data-driven requirements. This study proposes a process that combines data-driven and traditional RE approaches for Agile software development, and specifically for the Scrum method. The process intends to assist Agile professionals to elicit requirements from digital sources in combination with intended data derived from the stakeholders without impacting the main Agile practices. The motivation for the research origins from the case studies carried in few companies having the challenge to include data-driven requirements into their Agile approaches. The usage of the proposal is illustrated on an enterprise software case, while several Scrum professionals were interviewed to evaluate its correctness and importance.
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, 1981-, et al.
(författare)
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A Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Modeling Approaches for Modeling Business Strategy
- 2013
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Ingår i: PoEM Short Papers 2013. - 9783642416408 ; , s. 193-204
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A gap in the alignment of business and IT lies between strategy and IS, despite the advancements of enterprise modeling. The objective of our study is to compare various enterprise modeling approaches with respect to their ability to capture and represent strategy notions. This includes identifying strategy notions from established business strategy formulations within Strategic Management, which are expressed in the Unified Business Strategy Meta Model. The interdisciplinary nature of the study constitutes a research challenge due to the significant difference on the levels of abstraction between Strategic Management and IS. To the best of our knowledge, no similar effort has been undertaken, therefore, the outcome of this study will provide the enterprise modeling community with a basis to address strategy and IS alignment linking strategic objectives and intentions to information systems.
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, 1981-, et al.
(författare)
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A Design Science Perspective on Business Strategy Modeling
- 2014
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Ingår i: Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 9783662437445 - 9783662437452 ; , s. 424-438
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- An important topic in the modeling for IS development concerns quality of obtained models, especially when these models are to be used in global scopes, or as references. So far, a number of model quality frameworks have been established to assess relevant criteria such as completeness, clarity, modularity, or generality. In this study we take a look at how a research process contributes to the characteristics of a model produced during that process. For example: what should be observed; what research methods should be selected and how should they be applied; what kind of results should be expected; how they should be evaluated, etc. We report a result on this concern by presenting how we applied Design Science Research to model business strategy.
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, 1981-, et al.
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Capturing Consumer Preference in System Requirements Through Business Strategy
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design. - : IGI Global. - 1947-8186 .- 1947-8194. ; 4:4, s. 1-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A core concern within Business-IT alignment is coordinating strategic initiatives and plans with Information Systems (IS). Substantial work has been done on linking strategy to requirements for IS development, but it has usually been focused on the core value exchanges offered by the business, and thus overlooking other aspects that influence the implementation of strategy. One of these, consumer preferences, has been proven to influence the successful provisioning of the business's customer value proposition, and this study aims to establish a conceptual link between both strategy and consumer preferences to system requirements. The core contention is that reflecting consumer preferences through business strategy in system requirements allows for the development of aligned systems, and therefore systems that better support a consumer orientation. The contribution of this paper is an approach to establish such alignment, with this being accomplished through the proposal of a consumer preference meta-model mapped to a business strategy meta-model further linked to a system requirements technique. The validity of this proposal is demonstrated through a case study carried out within an institution of higher education in Sweden.
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, et al.
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Exploring Risk-Awareness in istar models
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The i* modeling technique focuses on an early-phase of requirements engineering aiming at understanding how a system would meet organizational goals, how it would fit within the organizational context, why would it be needed and why should it be preferred among other possible alternatives. Analysts are able to understand early the organizational context that bridges system requirements to organizational goals. However, it is not clear how uncertainty, potential threats and opportunities are taken into account both when developing a strategic dependency model and a strategic rationale model, to facilitate a continuous risk management. This paper proposes a set of guidelines for refining i* models based on risk
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, 1981-, et al.
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Linking Strategic Innovation to Requirements : a look into Blue Ocean Strategy
- 2012
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Ingår i: Emerging Topics in the Practice of Enterprise Modeling.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Business Strategy encapsulates an organisation's intentions towards the achievement of its vision. As such, business strategy frames the overarching business roadmap towards the accomplishment of strate- gic goals driven by competition, by own capabilities, or by innovation. Consequently, such a roadmap needs to be considered when building systems aimed at supporting the functionality of an enterprise. Intro- ducing business strategy to system's design using models facilitates the propagation of strategic notions to development techniques and methods. This study focuses on bringing a business strategy formulation driven by innovation into system requirements; specically, relating Blue Ocean Strategy to the notions of i*, an established goal modeling technique within requirements engineering.
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, 1981-, et al.
(författare)
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Model-Centric Strategy-IT Alignment : An Empirical Study in Progress
- 2013
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Ingår i: Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 9783642384899 - 9783642384905 ; , s. 146-155
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- IT pervades all sectors of today's organizations. To support efficient business solutions, business-IT alignment has been long-time discussed as a solution. Given the complexity of achieving alignment, in our research we have hypothesized the importance of one partial possible solution, namely, the fit between strategy and information system requirements. To systematically investigate the influence of widely-used business strategy formulations, such as Porter’s Value Chain, Kaplan & Norton’s Strategy Maps, and others, we propose a model-centric approach to strategy-IT alignment where the strategy formulations are represented in the form of models, and mapped to requirements models. The objective of this paper is to present a pilot empirical investigation assessing if strategy-IT alignment is an issue of concern, and seeking to obtain insights from practitioners about relevance of our modelbased view for strategy-IT alignment. The empirical information is collected through a well-prepared questionnaire-based survey.
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, 1981-
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Model-driven Alignment : Linking Business Strategy with Information Systems
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Information technology (IT) is more pervasive than ever before, constituting a significant factor for performance and survival in the business arena. It is essential that IT within organizations understands what the Business needs in order to provide the necessary support and bring value, which is also true when IT is also the main value creator. Therefore, alignment between the Business and IT within organizations is an issue of great concern and it is still open for solvency both for business and IT executives and practitioners.This work is scoped to the alignment linkage between business strategy and information systems (IS), where business strategy typically constitutes the primary exponent of the Business and IS typically encapsulates the elements of IT sustaining an organization. Current approaches are either focused on detailed aspects of IS and treat business strategy abstractly or use distinct business strategy formulations (e.g. Value Chain) but deal with IS only partially. This is problematic because the abstract use of business strategy hinders traceability of strategic intentions and initiatives towards features/aspects of IS, which are aimed to actualize and support such intentions. Because approaches using distinct business strategy formulations are not relevant to all organizations and are limited only to the IS aspects addressed.Introducing a model-driven approach for the alignment linkage is aimed at addressing the outlined shortcomings. Following a design science research paradigm, the main artifact developed is the Unified Business Strategy Meta-Model (UBSMM), which is based on conceptualizing established business strategy formulations (e.g. Value Chain) and integrating them. UBSMM supports mappings to IS models used in organizations, such as IS requirements, enterprise models and enterprise architecture, and provides unambiguous utilization of business strategy for the alignment linkage.Contributions of this thesis are grounded both on the process of building UBSMM and mapping to IS models, as well as the artifact itself. Conceptualizing and integrating business strategy formulations provides a less ambiguous and unified view of strategic concepts. This limits variations in interpretation and reinforces mappings to IS models, which are defined based on inter-schema properties across models. Therefore, UBSMM can link business strategy to IS models enhancing their communication in a traceable manner, ergo, support alignment.
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, et al.
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Model-Driven Alignment : an Empirical Study
- 2014
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Ingår i: The Practice of Enterprise Modeling. - Berlin : Springer. - 9783662455005 ; , s. 271-281
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Current advancements in the business arena necessitate more than ever before the alignment of The Business and IT in organizations, which has been acknowledged as a complex issue to address. Our research is aimed at systematically addressing the linkage between business strategy and information systems (IS). We propose a model-driven approach for alignment, by leveraging the influence of established business strategy formulations from Strategic Management, and model-driven principles used within IS. The objective of this paper is to present the results of an empirical investigation carried out in Sweden on the linkage seeking to obtain insights from practitioners about the relevance of the problem, as well as of our model-driven proposal to address it.
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, 1981-, et al.
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Model-driven Strategic Awareness : From a Unified Business Strategy Meta-model (UBSMM) to Enterprise Architecture
- 2012
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Ingår i: Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 9783642310713 - 9783642310720 ; , s. 255-269
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Business strategy should be well understood in order to support an enterprise to achieve its vision and to define an architecture supporting that vision. While business views are identified in many Enterprise Architecture (EA) proposals, business strategy formulations from the area of Strategic Management are overlooked. Thus, IT solutions cannot be traced back to business strategy in a clear and unambiguous way. Our intended proposal, a Unified Business Strategy Meta-Model (UBSMM), aims at establishing such a link. UBSMM is a formalization of the integration of known business strategy formulations with precise semantics enabling its model-level usage to provide strategic awareness to Enterprise Architecture. In this paper we present the development process of UBSMM, and further, we propose conceptual relationships towards Enterprise Architecture (EA).
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, 1981-, et al.
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Modeling Business Strategy : A Meta-model of Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecards
- 2011
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Ingår i: 2011 Fifth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS). - : IEEE. - 9781424486700 - 9781424486694 ; , s. 1-6
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Business strategy is aimed to support the vision of an enterprise, by paving the way to achieve it through goals that direct the strategy's execution. However, there is a lack of means to establish and assess the alignment of business strategy and goal oriented requirements engineering. The objective of our ongoing research is to model business strategy in order to establish well-defined and traceable links with system requirements. In this paper, we propose a business strategy meta-model for Strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards. The validity of the meta-model is tested through a case scenario using OWL and Telos.
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, 1981-, et al.
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Modeling Competition-Driven Business Strategy for Business IT Alignment
- 2011
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Ingår i: Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops. - Cham : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 9783642220555 - 9783642220562 ; , s. 16-28
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Business strategy aims at supporting the vision of an enterprise, by paving the way to achieve it through goals that direct the strategy’s execution. Aligning business strategy to system requirements requires explicit models from both business strategy and requirements engineering. However, existing business strategy definition approaches are informal and their syntax is based on natural language, therefore, they cannot be used in model-driven alignment. An objective of our research is to define a well-structured business strategy modeling language. In this paper, we propose a business strategy meta-model based on Porter’s work on competition driven strategy and its extension by Stabell and Fjeldstad. Our UML meta-model is formalized in Telos and OWL. An initial validation is performed by instantiating the meta-model using a case scenario.
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, 1981-, et al.
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Modeling Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecards using iStar
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 5<sup>th</sup> International <em>i</em>* Workshop 2011. ; , s. 90-95
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aligning business strategy to enterprise models requires explicit models from both areas, mapped to each other. Mapping existing business strategy definition approaches to requirement engineering practices improves strategy dissemination towards development. In this paper we present an illustration of such a mapping using the Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecards as a business strategy approach and iStar (i*) as a requirements engineering practice exemplified using a case scenario.
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- Giannoulis, Constantinos, 1981-, et al.
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Towards a Unified Business Strategy Language : A Meta-model of Strategy Maps
- 2010
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Ingår i: The Practice of Enterprise Modeling. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 9783642167812 - 9783642167829 ; , s. 205-216
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Alignment between business strategies and the resources engaged ensuring their realization, has been a continuous concern of enterprises of all kinds in last few decades. Commonly, enterprises fail to establish the traceability from business strategies towards operational tasks carried by employees. From the requirements engineering perspective this problem leads also to a misalignment between business and IT assets. In this study, we argue that for communicating high-level intentions and strategies down to the operational perspective, i.e. tasks and resources, the core necessity is to have a rich and well-defined language for modeling business strategies. Such a language could be further utilized for facilitating formalizations and a constructive analysis of high-level business aspects of enterprises, as well for comparing and unifying existing intentional modeling languages from the business and requirements engineering domains. As a reference proposal for formalizing business strategies, we consider the well-established strategy maps [1] from the Management Information Systems community which provide textual concepts of strategy-related notions establishing causal relationships between them. We have set an effort to formalize strategy maps in the form of a meta-model, usage scenarios and constraints, providing a systematic basis for obtaining a unified language/ontology for business strategy modeling.
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- Grabis, Jānis, et al.
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A Capability Based Method for Development of Resilient Digital Services
- 2021
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Ingår i: Enterprise Information Systems. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030754174 - 9783030754181 ; , s. 498-516
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Capability Driven Development (CDD) is a capability-based method for developing context-aware and adaptive systems. This paper proposes to extend CDD to address security and resilience concerns in organizational networks. A method extension defining modeling concepts and development procedure is elaborated. It includes development of a data-driven digital twin, which represents the security and resilience concerns of the network and is used to diagnose security incidents and to formulate a resilient response to these incidents. Application of the proposed method extension is illustrated using examples of secure computer network governance and secure supplier onboarding.
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