Systems thinking: critical thinking skills for the 1990s and beyond
System Dynamics Review - Special issue: Systems thinking in education
The object advantage: business process reengineering with object technology
The object advantage: business process reengineering with object technology
Business engineering with object technology
Business engineering with object technology
Building business objects
Supporting simulation-based decision making with the use of AHP analysis
WSC '05 Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation
Capturing the high-risk environment of the transition economy in Bulgaria-a simulation-based DSS
Decision Support Systems
A socio-technical approach to business process simulation
Decision Support Systems
Secure business process model specification through a UML 2.0 activity diagram profile
Decision Support Systems
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
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Due to the market-driven nature of modem organisations, it is important that they can easily adapt to changing business needs. In order to be able to do so, organisations need to employ information systems that exhibit the important characteristic of adaptability. Change, however, is risky because it encompasses unpredictable behaviours. Organisations, in order to minimise this risk, employ decision support systems (DSS) techniques that enable predictions to be made. This paper describes a simulation methodology, based on the combination of business objects and system dynamics that assists organisations in predicting future behaviours. The methodology eliminates the need for duplicate models of enterprise operation and simulation, and introduces a framework that enables the unification of the two in a single model.