Some Thoughts about Models in Organisational Efficiency and Agility 9/3/2018 Dagstuhl Seminar 16192: Supporting Organisational Efficiency and Agility: Models, Languages and Software Systems Some Thoughts about Models in Organisational Efficiency and Agility Kurt Sandkuhl Rostock University kurt.sandkuhl@uni-rostock.de Chair of Business Information Systems

Personal Background Current Position Professor of Business Information Systems at Rostock University, Germany Research Areas Enterprise Modeling and Knowledge Modeling Focus on reuse of organisational knowledge, modeling methods, practices Former Positions Fraunhofer-Institute of Software and Systems Engineering, Dortmund + Berlin Jönköping University (School of Engineering, International Business School) Academic Background Diploma and PhD in Computer Science from Berlin University of Technology Swedish Habilitation („Docent“) from Linköping University in Business Information Systems

Perspective on the Topic „Organisational Agility and Efficiency" 9/3/2018 Perspective on the Topic „Organisational Agility and Efficiency" What kind of models are useful to support agility, decision making? [Models of the Enterprise; Models of Software and Services] Models capturing the (deployment) context of enterprise services and product Models of business models Enterprise Architecture models, in particular with focus on effects of digitisation (including cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things, …) What are the key aspects of making an organisation agile? Separation of deployment context and (business) service Allow for thinking out-of-the-box (e.g. accepted ways to adapt business model) go beyond boundaries between traditional disciplines (e.g. integration of "product IT" and IoT)

Perspective on the Topic (2) 9/3/2018 Perspective on the Topic (2) Driving forces of competitiveness Capability to adapt to (context) changes which cannot be anticipated understanding of dependencies and relationships between organisational perspectives Who are the addressees of such models? Addressees are not limited to IT and technical people Wide participation of enterprise stakeholders in development of models, e.g. for business and IT alignment

Something to explore …? Liquid Models liquid? 9/3/2018 Something to explore …? Liquid Models liquid? flexible, dynamic, quickly adaptive regarding model content, meta-model, model usage, model users, … why? from design time artefact to runtime artefact Technology change triggers model adaptation different shapes for different addressees Model boundaries or purpose have to change … Does it make sense? Models as basis for runtime decision making / models with the purpose of information systems “to-be” models emerge in collaboration between what happens in reality and what is designed by stakeholders …