Framing Enterprise Engineering Within General System's Theory: Perspectives of a Human Centered Future

摘要

This paper frames the enterprise engineering body of knowledge within the scope of the general system's theory to challenge researchers and practitioners working in this field. Understanding that an organization is a living being that exist, acts and interacts, the goal of the paper is to narrow the discussion on how to observe, represent and act the enterprise in real-time. To that end, the following set of core elements are conceptualized and discussed: the organization, the actor, the observation, the time and the Kalman's dynamic control. Afterwards, those elements are combined to describe the duality that exists between the Human-self/organization-self dynamic control mechanisms including the time-delay concerns.