A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Processes are everywhere present and active, all the time; they are ubiquitous.  A particular process of interest can be any size – from the atomic to the cosmological – with a business enterprise fitting somewhere in between.  Every process comprises smaller processes and is always a part of a bigger process.  Every bigger process imposes an environment, or context, that constrains the smaller processes.  Both the bigger process and the smaller processes affect each other’s behavior; they are interdependent.  Learn more...

Enterprise Business Modeling
A What model and a How model of the enterprise will differ in purpose and form yet one must complement the other.  That's because, in the real world, there exists but two intrinsic and complementary views of every enterprise.  Read more...

Toward Improving Enterprise Data Quality
Every enterprise – from the smallest one-person operation to the most complex end-to-end process – continually amalgamates “things” into a holistic system of functional capabilities.  Things amalgamated include people, material, methods, and machines; places, processes, actions, and events; ideas, qualities, and ways of thinking.  Read more...

Lexical Conventions for Enterprise Data Modeling
This paper presents lexical conventions for enterprise data modeling that aim to promote integrated enterprise definition through well defined things of significance to the enterprise, fundamental business facts and rules by which things of significance to the enterprise are related, enterprisewide data modeling semantics, and enterprisewide data semantics.  Read more...