Ashby's law of requisite variety: an empirical study
Cybernetics and Systems
Dealing with complexity: an introduction to the theory & applications of systemsscience
Dealing with complexity: an introduction to the theory & applications of systemsscience
The relational model for database management: version 2
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Conceptual database design: an Entity-relationship approach
Conceptual database design: an Entity-relationship approach
Soft systems methodology in action
Soft systems methodology in action
Systems: concepts, methodologies, and applications (2nd ed.)
Systems: concepts, methodologies, and applications (2nd ed.)
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on analysis and modeling in software development
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Information systems development and data modeling: conceptual and philosophical foundations
Information systems development and data modeling: conceptual and philosophical foundations
The data warehouse toolkit: practical techniques for building dimensional data warehouses
The data warehouse toolkit: practical techniques for building dimensional data warehouses
Communications of the ACM
Value of Information in Capacitated Supply Chains
Management Science
starER: a conceptual model for data warehouse design
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Data warehousing and OLAP
The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
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Dynamics of complex systems
A case study evaluation of the use of viable system model in Information Systems development
Journal of Database Management - Special issue on information modeling methods
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
A relational model of data for large shared data banks
Communications of the ACM
Investigating information systems with action research
Communications of the AIS
Business process modelling with ARIS: a practical guide
Business process modelling with ARIS: a practical guide
Aris-Business Process Modeling
Aris-Business Process Modeling
System Requirements Engineering
System Requirements Engineering
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques
Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques
Complexity Theory and Organization Science
Organization Science
Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling--A Research Agenda
Information Systems Research
Evaluation of Information Modeling Methods -- A Review
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 5 - Volume 5
Redesigning Human Systems
Specification of management views in information warehouse projects
Information Systems
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
The Value of Information Sharing in a Two-Level Supply Chain
Management Science
Supply Chain Inventory Management and the Value of Shared Information
Management Science
Sequential Variety in Work Processes
Organization Science
Computational Modeling of Organizations Comes of Age
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
Method construction - a core approach to organizational engineering
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Quality in conceptual modeling
The deep structure of business processes
Communications of the ACM - Two decades of the language-action perspective
Using managed communication channels in software components
Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Computing frontiers
The role of information technology in organization design
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Information technology and organization design
Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systematic Management
Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systematic Management
Combining cybernetics and conceptual modeling: the concept of variety in organizational engineering
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Designing Self-Organising Emergent Systems based on Information Flows and Feedback-loops
SASO '07 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
Designing IC structures by variety engineering
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
How Much Language Is Enough? Theoretical and Practical Use of the Business Process Modeling Notation
CAiSE '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A Design Science Research Methodology for Information Systems Research
Journal of Management Information Systems
Design Science Research Methods and Patterns: Innovating Information and Communication Technology
Design Science Research Methods and Patterns: Innovating Information and Communication Technology
Soft design science methodology
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Introduction to designing information and organizations with a positive lens
Information and Organization
Managing viable virtual communities: an exploratory case study and explanatory model
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Design and natural science research on information technology
Decision Support Systems
Towards a generic model for situational method engineering
CAiSE'03 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
Design Science for Business Management
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
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In every organization, various decisions have to be made continuously, from the simple choice, which customer order to be processed next, to the serious question, whether to select a new supplier or to cancel an existing one. All of these decisions are supported by the provision of relevant information. Therefore the efficiency of a value chain is strongly influenced by the accurate setup of information flows. To make organizations more effective and efficient, one needs to understand what information flows are currently available and how information flows should be designed for a given organization. However, there is hardly any methodology available in order to analyze and redesign information flows in organizations in a structured way. Using the design science research framework, we develop a method for the analysis and design of information flows in organizations. Our research on the Variety Engineering Method (VEM) attempts to develop a method to analyze, diagnose and design information flows. VEM is built based on systems theory and cybernetics, especially the Viable System Model. VEM has been tested internally, and evaluated externally through field studies. In this paper, we present VEM in detail and discuss some general issues involved in its development, including the application of concepts form method engineering and evaluation in field studies.