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Model-enabled design and engineering of organisations and their enterprises

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Organizational Design and Enterprise Engineering

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This editorial is concerned with the need for an integrated approach to the design and engineering of organisations and their enterprises. Organisational Design originates from the organisational sciences, while the notion of Enterprise Engineering results from the engineering sciences (most notably information systems engineering, business (process) engineering, business process optimisation, and enterprise architecture). The Organisational Design and Enterprise Engineering journal (OD&EE) is built on the premise that there should not be an “either–or” relation between Organisational Design and Enterprise Engineering, but rather an integrated approach that brings out the best of the two. A driver for the creation of the journal was the observation that the “either–or” mindset was (and still is) a major obstacle to the development of organisational thinking, and that this artificial divide must be abolished. In achieving more integration between Organisational Design and Enterprise Engineering, we suggest to take a model-enabled approach, where models should act as boundary objects between the social processes involved in organisational design processes, and the more analytical and rational side of enterprise engineering.

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  1. Even though it has become commonplace to use the word ‘cyber’ as a general prefix to refer to computer-controlled activities, we prefer the word digital. The prefix ‘cyber’ originates from cybernetics, which represents the art of steermanship [4], which was intended as a generic notion and was not intended to be uniquely linked to the use of computers for steering and control.

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We would like to thank our colleagues for providing valuable feedback on earlier drafts of this editorial, in particular Marija Bjeković, Eric Dubois, James Lapalme, James Taylor and Robert Winter.

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    Rodrigo Magalhães

  2. ITIS Department, Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Henderik A. Proper

  3. Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Henderik A. Proper

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Magalhães, R., Proper, H.A. Model-enabled design and engineering of organisations and their enterprises. Organ Des Enterp Eng 1, 1–12 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41251-016-0005-9

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