Organizational and Digital Transformation Projects: A Mathematical Model for a Dynamic Enterprise-Ecosystem Model (DEM)
Keywords:
DEM, Refinement, Enterprise Architecture, agility, Decision Making SystemsAbstract
Organizational and digital transformation projects are of strategic importance for enterprises, but such initiatives are very complex and have a very high failure. Taking these two critical factors, it is important de define a strategic concept base on a Polymathic-holistic approach, iterative implementation phases and a structure approach. These critical factors are the basis for an Applied Holistic Mathematical Model (AHMM) for a DEM (AHMM4DEM). The Enterprise’s or organization’s (ENT) Transformation (and Refinement) Processes (RP) are a sequence (or sets) of extraction and conversion steps that are executed on various levels. An ENT is a set of Organizational Units (OU)n where an OU has one or more OU Platform (OUP). An RP on the OU’s level refines and transforms this OU and its OUP(s). A DEM for an ENT has to be capable of reorganizing its basic APplication Domain (APD) functions, OUs and all its functions. ENT’s functions are RPed into Building Blocks (BB) which can be reused to reused to (re)engineer OUs and OUPs. OUs are then (re)assembled in ENTs.
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