ENTERPRISE MODELING

To remain competitive, enterprises must become increasingly agile and integrated across their functions. Enterprise models play a critical r ole in this integration, enabling better designs for enterprises, anal ysis of their performance, and management of their operations. This ar ticle motivates the need for enterprise models and introduces the conc epts of generic and deductive enterprise models. It reviews research t o date on enterprise modeling and considers in detail the Toronto virt ual enterprise effort at the University of Toronto.