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Business Process Flexibility: Weick’s Organizational Theory to the Rescue

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

For organizations to flourish in a changing environment, their business processes need to be flexible. Designing flexible business processes is a challenge. We use Weick’s theory of organizing to propose some principles for designing flexible business proc ...

2006

Service Systems and Value Modeling from an Appreciative System Perspective

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Since its inception Service Science has created a substantial body of knowledge about services and their provision. Most notably, the concept of Service System was defined in order to describe the co-creation of value by the service provider and customer. ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2011

Remaining Fit: On the Creation and Maintenance of Fit

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

This paper serves as the introductory note to the Fifth Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS’04). The workshop focuses on the exploration of issues related to the fit between business processes and Business Process Support ...

2004

Business and IT Alignment with SEAM

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Aligning business with IT requires understanding goals, strategies and needs. To be able to express them, an enterprise model can be developed. We present some of the traditional techniques used for the development of an enterprise model (value system, BPM ...

University of New South Wales Press2005

A Regulation-Based View on Business Process and Supporting System Flexibility

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Maintaining flexible business processes is a difficult task since a business process typically satisfies the needs of several stakeholders. In this pa-per we examine organizational flexibility and business processes from the point of view of the regulation ...

2005

Requirements modeling in SEAM: The example of a car crash management system

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Arash Golnam, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska, Biljana Bajic-Bizumic, Anshuman Bahadur Saxena, George Popescu

This paper presents how business and IT requirements are captured with the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Methodology (SEAM). The method is applied to the Car Crash Management System (CMS) - Software Product Line (SPL) case study. The existing business s ...

IEEE2013

Introducing Ethnography to IS Practitioners with Experiential Pedagogy

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

In this paper we describe a long-term effort to raise the awareness of IT practitioners in the Swiss French region to the value of ethnographic observation techniques for requirements elicitation. This effort brought together academia and industry. Several ...

2016

Implementation of a Modeling Tool Using Alloy as Meta-Modeling Language and CrocoPat as Validation Tool

Alain Wegmann

The context of our work is a project that focuses on methods and tools for modeling enterprise architectures. An enterprise architecture model represents the structure of an enterprise across multiple levels, from the markets in which it operates down to t ...

2006

Enterprise modeling using the foundation concepts of the RM-ODP ISO/ITU standard

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

2007

Comparison of Two Value-Modeling Methods: e3 value and SEAM

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

In the last few decades, several value-modeling methods have emerged in requirements engineering for IS research. We compare two value-modeling methods, e3value and SEAM. We illustrate their use with an example of the exchange of the Intellectual Property ...

IEEE2019

Creativity and the Age-Old Resistance to Change Problem in RE

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Creativity is about bringing unforeseen change to habitual ways of doing things. Understanding the challenges of introducing innovation in organizations is, therefore, essential during the requirements phase of today’s computer systems design projects. How ...

IEEE2006

Three Stances in Enterprise System Design

Alain Wegmann

In this paper we propose a framework for enterprise system design, which is based on Daniel Dennett's three stances for explaining and predicting the behaviour of an entity or system: the design stance, the physical stance, and the intentional stance. The ...

Springer Nature2025

Oxymoron, a Non-Distance Knowledge Sharing Tool for Social Science Students and Researchers

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Oxymoron is a World Wide Web based knowledge capitalization and sharing tool that was conceived and developed by a multidisciplinary team, comprised of adult education and distributed systems professionals from France and Switzerland. Oxymorons aim is to s ...

1999

Problem Structuring Methods in System Dynamics Modeling-A Cognitive Fit Perspective

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

The knowledge residing in the mental models of clients and stakeholders is considered as a crucial source of information by system dynamicists. Despite the importance of this knowledge, the theory of SD does not provide practical means for eliciting and re ...

2011

High-Level Design and Analysis of Business Processes. The Advantages of Declarative Specifications

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

Business process modeling techniques, such as BPMN, encourage the early specification of the exact order in which the activities of the process will be executed. However, a business process may be exposed to different environments and subjected to many con ...

2008

Coopetition within and between value networks – a typology and a modelling framework

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam

This study develops a typology of coopetition in value networks, wherein a distinction is made based on two factors. Firstly, whether coopetition takes place inside a particular value network (i.e., intra-value network coopetition) or between value network ...

2014

What Have We Unlearned Since the Early Days of the Process Movement?

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

The vision brought forth by Michael Hammer in the late 1980s was to save struggling American companies by getting them to focus on the creation of value for clients by reorganizing their operations and structure around the use of IT systems. This was the B ...

Springer2016

On Viable Service Systems: Developing a Modeling Framework for Analysis of Viability in Service Systems

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Arash Golnam

This paper explores the contribution of systems modeling to the design and analysis of viability in service systems. We apply a modeling framework called SEAM (Systemic Enterprise Architecture Method) to gain an understanding of how a service system mainta ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2011

Collaborative Concept Mapping on the World Wide Web

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

The Collaborative Concept Mapping project is a joint research project between IMD and EPFL. The goal of the project is to create a collaborative tool that helps managers to define business strategies in the face of complex situations. Addressing complex pr ...

2001

Defining Early IT System Requirements with Regulation Principles: The Lightswitch Approach

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev

In this paper we present the Lightswitch approach, an approach for defining early requirements for enterprise IT systems. Using the approach, engineers can model the way an enterprise regulates its relationships with its environment, identify changing cond ...

2004