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To survive and even thrive on environmental and internal change, organizations have to be agile. Though change occurs in organizational essence, such as products and services delivered, most of the time change deals with different organizational implementations, such as sourcing, order of working and distribution of tasks. To informedly decide upon such organizational implementations, a systematic overview of organization implementation variables is required, which is currently not available. We drafted a list of organization implementation variables from literature, and tested it against two different organization implementation descriptions of OMG’s EU-Rent case, using the DEMO model for this fictitious car rental company as its implementation independent essence. We found a list of 20 of such variables from literature, which was extended in the two tests by another 10 variables. Using these variables in Enterprise Engineering enables traceability in governing enterprise transformations; moreover, we expect many of them to have the potential to be generically supported by IT, thus enabling agile IT.
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Op ’t Land, M., Krouwel, M. (2013). Exploring Organizational Implementation Fundamentals. In: Proper, H.A., Aveiro, D., Gaaloul, K. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering VII. EEWC 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 146. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38117-1_3
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