Visual and Ontological Modeling Support for Extended Enterprise Models

Modern enterprises have to face changes brought on by multiple change drivers like evolving market conditions, technology obsolescence and advance, and regulatory compliance among others. Enterprises need to create and use both descriptive and prescriptive models such that prescriptive models leverage the descriptive models to operationalize optimum strategies in response to change. This paper presents a visual model editor and ontological support for aforementioned kinds of models of enterprise. The editor enables modeling a) motivations behind and goals in response to change, b) the AS-IS state of enterprise, c) possible TO-BE states, and d) operationalization model that captures paths from AS-IS to desired TO-BE states. The analyses required are carried out using ontological representation.