Proposal of a Method to Understand and Model Dynamic Mechanisms Existing in Business Context

Abstract

It is no doubt that IT systems are essential to enterprise infrastructure. In EA approach, both business architecture and IT architecture are explicitly defined consistently. In order to analyze the dynamic feasibility of the (re)designed business model or architecture, system dynamics modeling with simulation could be a powerful tool. However, it tends to only consider the modeling teams’ existing awareness of dynamic mechanisms. Unless incorporating unconscious dynamic mechanisms existing in business context, the simulation results of the (re)designed business model might be hopeful but unrealistic. Therefore, the database/library of business dynamic mechanisms existing in the business context will be desired to incorporate unaware side-effects into business simulations. In this article, we propose a method to understand and model dynamic mechanisms existing in business context, in order to store the pieces of business dynamic mechanisms into the database or library. Moreover, we discuss advantages of the method and future works through our experiences, after case studies by applying the proposed method are shown.