Glossary
In this glossary, you will find a set of terms we have defined and reused extensively in our white papers. We have tried to use as few terms as possible. When several terms relate to the same concept, we define only one term and add the others as synonyms.
- Enterprise
An Enterprise is an agent which creates "value" for a Customer. The value can be economic or not (for example, cultural value).
An Enterprise can be a Legal Entity, a part of a Legal Entity, a network of Legal Entities.
A Group of Companies may represent a real Economic Entity with a unique decision center, without being described as one big Legal Entity. The Group teams represent an Enterprise, and each Company represents an Enterprise.
An Enterprise is described according to a cube of 3 dimensions:
· Complexity: isolates Enterprise Real World from Enterprise Model.
· Agility: isolates Enterprise Operations from Enterprise Transformations.
· Synergy: isolates Specific Elements from Shared Resources and Reused Model.
Most of the concepts developped on this website are further developped in our white papers. You can download any white paper freely. Please do not re-use without explicit permission.
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