A multi-view enterprise modeling scheme

Efforts to improve enterprise performance depend to a large extent on models of enterprise processes created for analysis and design, This paper describes a modeling scheme which supports the development of a multi-view model of an enterprise and its processes. The paper first presents an overview of the efforts such as business process reengineering, enterprise integration, and enterprise engineering which make use of process models. The paper then presents the modeling scheme which uses the IDEF suite of modeling methods to build integrated business rule, activity, resource, business process, and organizational views of the enterprise. The scheme is built from a central IDEF5 model of the enterprise from which the other views are extracted.