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The need for organizations to operate in changing environments is addressed by proposing an approach that integrates organizational development with information system (IS) development taking into account changes in the application context of the solution. This is referred to as Capability Driven Development (CDD). A meta-model representing business and IS designs consisting of goals, key performance indicators, capabilities, context and capability delivery patterns, is being proposed. The use of the meta-model is validated in three industrial case studies as part of an ongoing collaboration project, whereas one case is presented in the paper. Issues related to the use of the CDD approach, namely, CDD methodology and tool support are also discussed.
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This work has been partially supported by the EU-FP7 funded project no: 611351 CaaS – Capability as a Service in Digital Enterprises.
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Bērziša, S., Bravos, G., Gonzalez, T.C. et al. Capability Driven Development: An Approach to Designing Digital Enterprises. Bus Inf Syst Eng 57, 15–25 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-014-0362-0
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