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Model-Driven Strategic Awareness: From a Unified Business Strategy Meta-Model (UBSMM) to Enterprise Architecture

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2012, EMMSAD 2012)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 113))

Abstract

Business strategy should be well understood in order to support an enterprise to achieve its vision and to define an architecture supporting that vision. While business views are identified in many Enterprise Architecture (EA) proposals, business strategy formulations from the area of Strategic Management are overlooked. Thus, IT solutions cannot be traced back to business strategy in a clear and unambiguous way. Our intended proposal, a Unified Business Strategy Meta-Model (UBSMM), aims at establishing such a link. UBSMM is a formalization of the integration of known business strategy formulations with precise semantics enabling its model-level usage to provide strategic awareness to Enterprise Architecture. In this paper we present the development process of UBSMM, and further, we propose conceptual relationships towards Enterprise Architecture (EA).

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  1. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Forum 100, SE 1640-40, Kista, Sweden

    Constantinos Giannoulis & Jelena Zdravkovic

  2. PReCISE Research Center, Computer Science Department, University of Namur, Rue Grandgagnage 21, B-5000, Namur, Belgium

    Michaël Petit

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  1. IbisSoft AB, Stockholm, Box 19567, SE-10432, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ilia Bider

  2. LogicBlox, Australia, and INTI International University, Malaysia

    Terry Halpin

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Sem Sælands Vei 7-9, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    John Krogstie

  4. University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

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  5. Erik Proper, PRC Henri Tudor, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg

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  6. Aalen University, Aalen, Germany

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  7. University of Haifa, Carmel Mountain, 31905, Haifa, Israel

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  8. Department of Business Informatics, University of Gdansk, ul. Piaskowa 9, 81-864, Sopot, Poland

    Stanisław Wrycza

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Giannoulis, C., Zdravkovic, J., Petit, M. (2012). Model-Driven Strategic Awareness: From a Unified Business Strategy Meta-Model (UBSMM) to Enterprise Architecture. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_18

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