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Business Modelling Is Not Process Modelling

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Conceptual Modeling for E-Business and the Web (ER 2000)

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Innovative e-business projects start with a design of the e-business model. We often encounter the view, in research as well as industry practice, that an e-business model is similar to a business process model, and so can be specified using UML activity diagrams or Petri nets. In this paper, we explain why this is a misunderstanding. The root cause is that a business model is not about process but about value exchanged between actors. Failure to make this separation of concerns leads to poor business decision-making and inadequate business requirements.

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  1. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculty of Sciences, Vuture.net-Amsterdam Center of e-Business Research De Boelelaan 1081a, NL-1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jaap Gordijn, Hans Akkermans & Hans van Vliet

  2. Deloitte & Touche Bakkenist Wisselwerking 46, NL-1112 XR, Diemen, The Netherlands

    Jaap Gordijn

  3. AKMC Knowledge Management, Klareweid 19, NL-1831 BV, Koedijk, The Netherlands

    Hans Akkermans

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  1. School of Accountancy and Information Systems, Brigham Young University Marriott School, 585 TNRB, P.O. Box 23087, 84602-3087, Provo, Utah, USA

    Stephen W. Liddle

  2. Insitute for Business Informatics and Application Systems, University of Klagenfurt, Universitätsstr. 65-67, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Heinrich C. Mayr

  3. Computer Science Institute, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Postfach 101344, 03013, Cottbus, Germany

    Bernhard Thalheim

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Gordijn, J., Akkermans, H., van Vliet, H. (2000). Business Modelling Is Not Process Modelling. In: Liddle, S.W., Mayr, H.C., Thalheim, B. (eds) Conceptual Modeling for E-Business and the Web. ER 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1921. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45394-6_5

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