CIMOSA and the Enterprise Organisation

Abstract

The paper describes the CIMOSA modelling concepts and building blocks with focus on the organisational constructs and their relationships to other model entities. CIMOSA defines two constructs to represent enterprise organisations: Organisation Unit and Organisation Cell. Organisation Unit is an entity, usually a decision making person, defined by its skills, responsibilities and authorities. Organisation Cell is a construct to be used recursively for describing aggregations of Organisation Units or cells. Using these two constructs with guidelines and a component element, organisation structures of different types — e.g. hierarchical, network, matrix - and of any complexity can be represented.

The paper demonstrates the usability of CIMOSA based modelling to capture, represent and manage organisations integrated with processes, information, resources and other organisations. An application of the methodology to a virtual enterprise is provided.