This introductory chapter elaborates some of the key ideas which shaped the concept of this
book. The overriding idea is that autopoiesis theory has the potential to provide a unifying …

Se reporta el diagnóstico del conocimiento que posee una comunidad de práctica en el
dominio de los sistemas de información. La comunidad se ha conformado con individuos de …

Enterprise modelling helps improving individual and organisational self-awareness by
allowing sharing knowledge about the organisation among its human actors through …

In this chapter, a proposal is made for framework aimed at bringing about a convergence
between the concepts of organizational self-awareness (OSA) and organizational identity …

Enterprise representations can be used to improve the organizational self-awareness,
allowing the communication of knowledge about these concerns among different …

This paper presents a basic set of modeling primitives with the purpose of enabling the
construction of semantically rich and coherently integrated organizational models, in the …

Abstract The Portuguese Air Force, like any other organization, is a dynamic system, and like
all other systems, they attain better results when their components are designed to …

In this paper, we address the challenge of endowing enterprises with a “nervous system,”
which enables its consciousness as a means to better deal with systemic aspects, the whole …

Since Risk Management became an organizational concern lots of guidelines have been
published. On the last quarter of 2009 it was published a new one that proposes itself to be a …

In the past decade, the rush to technology has created several flaws in terms of managing
computers, applications, and middleware and information systems. Therefore, organizations …