Enterprise modelling with UML

Making effective project selection decisions in an enterprise requires a clear idea of where the enterprise is in the current state, what its vision for the future is, and how to make a transition to its desired future state possible. A strategic plan is a document that encompasses this information and is produced as an output of corporate strategic planning. In this paper we examine business modelling as an integral part of strategic planning, where models of a current and future enterprise are developed and refined. The question that we address in this regard is, whether the unified modelling language (UML) notation, the today’s defacto standard in engineering modelling, can serve as an appropriate language for enterprise modelling, in particular for corporate strategic planning. In the paper we discuss types of models that are usually used in strategic planning to describe the enterprise from different perspectives and suggest some extensions to the UML notation to make it more suitable for this purpose.