Abstract
Our research aims at finding key concepts to link agile enterprises with agile automated information systems. To effectively respond to environmental changes, such as in market needs, technology, regulations or law, enterprises need to be able to change their supporting information system(s) accordingly. The Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations (DEMO) has already proven to be an effective tool in designing and realizing agile organizations. The Normalized System (NS) approach, on the other hand, has proven to be the key for developing agile Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems, which support such agile organizations.
We found that DEMO and its underlying PSI-theory, and the principles and elements of the Normalized Systems approach match. Also we designed, using two cases of Dutch governmental subsidy schemes, a few simple and automatable steps to derive a Normalized System from the ontological model of the B-organization, provided by applying DEMO to an enterprise, while retaining the implementation freedom of the organization under consideration. Finally we found that the impact of implementation choices is minimal and that it is clear how they affect the automated information system. With this result, one vital cornerstone for achieving enterprise agility has been covered.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Tsourveloudis, N.C., Valavanis, K.P.: On the Measurement of Enterprise Agility. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (33), 329–342 (2002)
Arnold, B., Engels, A., Op ’t Land, M.: FPS: een andere kijk op componenten en architectuur in de financiële wereld (deel 2). A & I, 24–32 (2000)
Dietz, J.L.G.: Enterprise Ontology. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Mannaert, H., Verelst, J.: Normalized systems: re-creating information technology based on laws for software evolvability. Koppa, Kermt (2009)
Lehman, M.: On understanding laws, evolution, and conservation in the large-program life cycle. Journal of Systems and Software 1, 213–221 (1980)
De Rijksoverheid : (Algemene wet bestuursrecht), http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/algemene-wet-bestuursrecht-awb
Huysmans, P., Bellens, D., Van Nuffel, D., Ven, K.: Aligning the Constructs of Enterprise Ontology and Normalized Systems. In: Albani, A., Dietz, J.L.G. (eds.) CIAO! 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 49, pp. 1–15. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Nuffel, D.V., Huysmans, P., Bellens, D., Ven, K.: Translating Ontological Business Transactions into Evolvable Information Systems. In: 5th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2010 (2010)
Op ’t Land, M.: Applying architecture and ontology to the splitting and allying of enterprises. PhD thesis. Delft University of Technology (2008)
de Jong, J., Dietz, J.L.: Understanding the realization of organizations. In: Albani, A., Dietz, J.L. (eds.) CIAO! 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 49, pp. 31–49. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Krouwel, M.R., Op ’t Land, M. (2011). Combining DEMO and Normalized Systems for Developing Agile Enterprise Information Systems. In: Albani, A., Dietz, J.L.G., Verelst, J. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering V. EEWC 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 79. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21058-7_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21058-7_3
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-21057-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-21058-7
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)