Presentation
Rethinking the Integrative Foundation of Enterprises - The Activity Domain Theory (using the
activity domain as a foundation for doing enterprise architecture work. Presented at the NEA
(Nätverket för Enterprise-arkitektur) i Sverige group meeting in 2013.

LARS TAXÉN | RESEARCHER & CONSULTANT

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Updated March 26, 2006
Enteprise Architectures
The central message here is the notion of "Organizational Anatomy". Drawing on the experiences from using the System Anatomy (see the entry "System Development", an enterprise is modeled as dependent activity domains; from the most basic on to the ones providing services/products to the market and other clients. This implies that the enterprise is modeled as a "fractal" structure, where each domain ultimately is structured from the activity modalities; something that is not found in other enterprise architecture frameworks such as, for example, Zachman. Moreover, this conceptualization departs from the individual in the organization; thus eschewing the problematic modeling of the individual as an system element among other in, for example, VSM (Viable System Model).

Taxén, L. (2011). The activity domain as the nexus of the organization. International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering, 1(3), 247-272.

Taxén, L. (2012). Sustainable Enterprise Interoperability from the Activity Domain Theory perspective. Computers in Industry, 63 (2012),

Taxén (2015) A Neurobiological Foundation for Enterprise Architectures. Rejected paper
Topics
Activity modalities
Activity Domain Theory
Alignment
Business processes
Circuits and Systems
Design science
Enterprise Systems
Enterprise Architectures
Information Systems
Knowledge Integration
Linguistics
Neuroscience
Optimization
Organization
PLM
Project Management
System Development