Enterprise Viability Model: Extending Enterprise Architecture Frameworks for Modeling and Analyzing Viability under Turbulence

The business environment has become increasingly turbulent, making it difficult for many companies to maintain their viability. Despite the increasing prevalence of turbulence and the challenges it poses, managers have few tools to conceptualize, analyze, and develop strategies to address the problem. The authors developed the enterprise viability model as a modeling and analysis framework for evaluating the robustness of the management control system (MCS) of enterprises. The authors present the rationale for integrating axiomatic design and the viable system model into the enterprise viability model and illustrate the use of the enterprise viability model in business process analysis.

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