Adding value to enterprise modelling

There is much talk today about 'knowledge management' and 'intellectual cap ital'. And, looking at enterprise modelling, one could say that an enterpri se model is a visual way to capture knowledge about the enterprise. It can be suggested that much of what is being done in enterprise modelling is not achieving what enterprise leaders want to achieve, and that is to add sign ificant value to the enterprise. This paper begins to address what is neede d to add value by describing an enterprise modelling framework comprised of 36 different classes of enterprise models. Within this framework, there ar e six classes that specifically address increasingly sophisticated concepts of enterprise value. Examples of some of these classes, called valuemetric enterprise models, are given from actual models. But this paper only begin s to address this challenging area. It is hoped it will trigger further dis cussion and development of valuemetric enterprise models.