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In this paper, we address the challenge of endowing enterprises with a “nervous system,” which enables its consciousness as a means to better deal with systemic aspects, the whole, of an organization. We propose using the Enterprise Engineering body of knowledge and expand that knowledge by using paradigms of life sciences as foundational bases for the continuous explanation of the whole and the emergence of organizational consciousness. Enterprise Engineering body of knowledge allows us to create artifacts to support the explicitness of its systemic aspects, dynamically continuously updated, which will help the parts, humans, and computers, to deal better, align themselves, and contribute to the whole. We present the Enterprise Operating System concept as a contribution to further research aiming to implement the proposed enterprise “nervous system” and realize the identified living science paradigms into governance and management systems.
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Fernandes, A., Tribolet, J. (2021). Towards Conscious Enterprises: The Role of Enterprise Engineering in Realizing Living Sciences Paradigms into Management Sciences. In: Aier, S., Rohner, P., Schelp, J. (eds) Engineering the Transformation of the Enterprise. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84655-8_20
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