Strategic modelling for enterprise integration

Abstract The successful application of advanced information technologies and systems relies on a good understanding of the target organizational environment. Modelling techniques are needed for expressing complex social and organizational relationships and to help reason about them. The i * modelling framework supports the modelling of strategic relationships among organizational actors. Actors depend on each other for goals to be achieved, tasks to be performed, and resources to be furnished. Networks of strategic dependencies can be analyzed for opportunities and vulnerabilities. Means-ends reasoning is used to help explore alternatives. Examples at different levels of enterprise modelling are given.

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