A software development unit called to renew or replace an existing corporate system may face some special problems in an established company with a lot of well-trained behavioral patterns and thought structures fitting to the legacy system only. The challenge is not just to be on a journey and reach the destination with the development team but keeping accompanied by the stakeholders during the...

INtrODUctION In order to manage knowledge and operate successfully in today's information-intensive business environments, various organizational forms have emerged (e. The form that an organization takes has consequences for communication and dissemination of information, and thereby the ability to engage in organizational learning. Some of these forms compress knowledge at the root level of t...

This paper focuses on the issue of ontological analysis for organizational structure modeling in the ARIS method with the following contributions: (i) an interpretation of the language in terms of realworld entities in the UFO foundational ontology; (ii) the identification of inappropriate elements of the language, using a systematic ontology-based analysis approach; and (iii) recommendations f...