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Coopetition-based business models: The case of Amazon.com

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam

Coopetition (collaboration between competing firms) is a phenomenon that has recently captured a great deal of attention due to its increasing relevance to business practice. However, current research on coopetition is still short on explaining how the pot ...

2014

Defining business process flexibility with the help of invariants

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Enterprise survival is about maintaining an identity that is separate from other enterprises. We define flexibility as the ability to change without losing identity. The identity of an enterprise can be analyzed as a set of norms and beliefs about these no ...

2007

Early Requirements and Business-IT Alignment with SEAM for Business

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

The early requirements of an IT system should be aligned with the organization’s business imperatives. To understand these imperatives it is necessary to understand the organization’s position within its environment. SEAM for Business is a method designed ...

IEEE2007

Modelling the regulative role of business processes with use and misuse cases

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Business processes contain value-added and abuse prevention activities. Most modelling techniques do not provide a rationale for abuse prevention activities. Such a rationale is needed when redesigning business processes. In this paper we propose to consid ...

2005

Regulation Based Linking of Strategic Goals and Business Processes

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

To be able to make changes to a business process, it is necessary to understand how the process supports the strategic goals of the business and how changes to the goals may impact the process and vice versa. This paper explains the relations between strat ...

2002

Specifying Services for ITIL Service Management

François Maréchal, Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a collection of best practices for the management of IT services. ITIL helps organizations to become aware of the business value their IT services provide to internal and external stakeholders. Un ...

2008

SLA: to Sign or Not to Sign

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

We present our experience of a three-week fieldwork in the form of a contextual inquiry with a service manager at the EPFL IT department. During these three weeks, we encounter a refusal of a user committee to sign a service-level agreement (SLA). We descr ...

CEUR Workshop Proceedings2016

Patterns for Value-Added Services Illustrated with SEAM

Maude Laetitia Grossan, Alain Wegmann, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska, Aarthi Gopal

The basic idea behind the provision of a service is to hide the service implementation details from the client in such a way that more value is provided to the client. Very often support services allow too much of their implementation details to be visible ...

2014

Augmenting the Zachman Enterprise Architecture Framework with a Systemic Conceptualization

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

The Zachman Framework offers a classification of the models created in an enterprise architecture project. These models form a holistic representation of the organization. Despite the prominent position of the Framework, there is little information publicl ...

IEEE2008

Business Process Flexibility through the Exploration of Stimuli

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

For organizations to survive and flourish in a changing environment, their business processes need to be flexible. Ashby’s law of requisite variety applied to business processes postulates that a robust process needs to exhibit as much variety in its respo ...

2008

Requirements Elicitation with a Service Canvas for Packaged Enterprise Systems

Lucien Alexandre Etzlinger, Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

We present a technique for eliciting requirements based on the use of a service canvas and the results of its application in the early phase of a customer relationship management integration project. The project was a collaboration between a research group ...

IEEE2019

Formalization of the RM-ODP foundations based on the Triune Continuum Paradigm

Alain Wegmann, Andrey Naumenko

The subject of research in this paper is RM-ODP, an ISO/ITU-T international standard. We investigate an important challenge that the standard faces, specifically the absence of a satisfactory formalization of its proposed conceptual framework. We report on ...

2007

Alignment Verification in the Early Stage of Service Design

Alain Wegmann, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

Verification is a costly task, sometimes burdensome and tedious, requiring strong formal background. To reduce the effort and cost invested in verification, we developed a model-driven approach for automatic verification of service properties, done in the ...

2017

A Framework to Model and Analyze the WHY and the HOW of Coopetition

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam

Coopetition has been defined as an approach to managing that combines competition and cooperation. It transcends the traditional paradigms of competition and cooperation in an effort to achieve the advantages of both. As an inter-organizational relationshi ...

2011

Requirements Engineering Education in the 21st Century, an Experiential Learning Approach

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

RE use in industry is hampered by a poor understanding of RE practices and their benefits. Teaching RE at the university level is therefore an important endeavor. This education can ideally be provided at the university level as an integrated part of devel ...

IEEE2008

What We Can Learn about Business Modeling from Homeostasis

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Business modeling methods most often model an organization’s value provision to its customers followed by the necessary activities and structure to deliver this value. These activities and structure are seen as infinitely malleable; they can be specified a ...

2013

From Business to IT with SEAM: J2EE Pet Store Example

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Business and IT alignment demands clear traceability between the applications to be developed and the business requirements. SEAM is a systemic visual approach for modeling systems, including information systems and organizations. This paper illustrates ho ...

2007

Formal Semantics for Property-Property Relations in SEAM Visual Language: Towards Simulation and Analysis of Visual Specifications

Alain Wegmann

SEAM is an enterprise architecture method that defines a visual language for modeling. Our goal is to provide formal semantics for SEAM. Model simulation, model comparison, and refinement verification are practical benefits we expect from this formalizatio ...

2007

From Business Services to IT Services by Capturing Design Decisions

Alain Wegmann, Claude Petitpierre, Biljana Bajic-Bizumic

The main goals of any service-oriented design include flexible support and adaptability of business services and improved business-IT alignment. The existing approaches, however, have failed to fully meet these goals. One of the major reasons for this defi ...

2012

Specification and Implementation of a Meta-model for Information Systems Cartography

Alain Wegmann, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

Models are used in software engineering, enterprise architecture, requirements engineering, etc. In this context, models can give support in creating a shared understanding of what exists in an enterprise. For this purpose we suggest to use a cartography t ...

2014