Abstract
Enterprise engineering (EE) is emerging as a new discipline to address the design of the enterprise in a holistic way. Although existing knowledge on enterprise design is dispersed and fragmented across different disciplines and approaches, previous research presented an enterprise evolution contextualisation model (EECM) as a representation of the existing EE body of knowledge. Since EECM was developed inductively from existing design/alignment/governance approaches, EECM was also proposed as a representation of the EE domain within the emerging EE discipline. We used a questionnaire to gather the views of EE and enterprise architecture (EA) researchers and practitioners on the EE domain. The main contributions of this article include: (1) the validation results of the proposed boundaries of the EE domain, and (2) a prioritisation of the phenomena of interest and core problems or topics of interest within the EE domain.
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- Enterprise engineering
- Enterprise engineering discipline
- Enterprise engineering research agenda
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de Vries, M., Gerber, A., van der Merwe, A. (2015). The Enterprise Engineering Domain. In: Aveiro, D., Pergl, R., Valenta, M. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering IX. EEWC 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 211. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19297-0_4
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