Enterprise ontology based splitting and contracting of organizations

  • Authors:
  • Martin Op't Land;Jan L. G. Dietz

  • Affiliations:
  • Delft University of Technology, Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Our research program aims at finding and testing principles for deciding on organization splits and starting cooperation over the split. We tested a method to make underpinned choices on the organization split and to ensure completeness in contracting. Using actors from Enterprise Ontology as organization building blocks of a Dutch governmental agency, experts constructed their own gut feeling organization split and systematically listed (a) ownership of assets (b) quality of business and information services and (c) critical chain-dependencies. The proposed organization split is, confirming an earlier experiment, quite close to graph theory based calculated alternatives. The listing of contracting items helped to determine in a fast and shared way subsequent implementation steps, e.g., ensuring mutual information supply and formulating performance indicators.