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Three Stances in Enterprise System Design

In this paper we propose a framework for enterprise system design, which is based on Daniel Dennett's three stances for explaining and predicting the behaviour of an entity or system: the design stance, the physical stance, and the intentional stance. The ...

Springer Nature2025

Problem structuring to enable innovation in business/IT projects

Gil Regev, Tatiana Porté, Alain Wegmann

In this paper, we present a problem structuring method in business and IT analysis illustrated with an example. The project describes an IT consulting case done for a Swiss medical society faced with a problem of change management and digital transformatio ...

LUT Scientific and Expertise Publications2020

A Return on Our Experience of Using Services as a Unifying Concept for Business and IT Alignment in a University

Alain Wegmann, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

We describe the use of the concept of service for aligning the business activities of an organization and its IT resources. This work is set in the context of a longitudinal action-research project between our research unit and our university's IT departme ...

2019

Requirements Elicitation with a Service Canvas for Packaged Enterprise Systems

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Blagovesta Hristova Kostova, Lucien Alexandre Etzlinger

We present a technique for eliciting requirements based on the use of a service canvas and the results of its application in the early phase of a customer relationship management integration project. The project was a collaboration between a research group ...

IEEE2019

Extending Business Process Models with Appreciation

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Irina Rychkova

We use homeostasis, the maintenance of steady states in an organism, to explain some of the decisions made by participants in a business process. We use Vickers’ Appreciative System to model the homeostatic states with Harel’s statecharts. We take the exam ...

2019

A Novel Approach to Modeling Enterprise Services Leveraging Object Cloning and Multilevel Classification

Alain Wegmann, Lam Son Lê

Object-oriented modeling is concerned with capturing common properties of objects. The dominant thinking in this realm is to classify objects that share certain properties into what is called a class, which in turn enables us to instantiate additional obje ...

IEEE2019

Service-Oriented Business Design for IT Students

Alain Wegmann, Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

In this Full Innovative Practice Paper, we present a teaching approach, based on service science, for integrating a business curriculum in the engineering educational program. Our approach is a composition of experiential learning, systems thinking, and se ...

2019

Comparison of Two Value-Modeling Methods: e3 value and SEAM

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

In the last few decades, several value-modeling methods have emerged in requirements engineering for IS research. We compare two value-modeling methods, e3value and SEAM. We illustrate their use with an example of the exchange of the Intellectual Property ...

IEEE2019

Ontology for SEAM Service Models

Alain Wegmann, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

A service system is a popular concept in academia and industry. At the same time, it is a challenging concept to represent, due to its recursive nature and difficulty to relate it to entities in reality. In this paper we present an ontology for modeling se ...

2018

Service-Oriented Business Design for IT students

Alain Wegmann, Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

In this Full Innovative Practice Paper, we present a teaching approach, based on service science, for integrating a business curriculum in the engineering educational program. Our approach is a composition of experiential learning, systems thinking, and se ...

IEEE2018