Nigel
Phillips
Centre for Information and Organisational Studies
School of Computing Information Systems and Mathematics
South Bank University
London
e-mail phillinp@sbu.ac.uk
Learning from the
science of complexity is seen as centrally important by the Business Objects
Design and Implementation Workshop and the Knowledge Management Coalition
(KMC). There is much common ground between the concerns of these two groups.
Central to both is the concept of Complex Adaptive Systems. A meta-model of
organisations based on the Organisations as Complex Evolving Systems (OACES)
framework is developed. Combined with extensions to Business Object Architecture
proposed by Sims and others this is seen to lead to an Enterprise Meta-Model
that provides a common core architecture for KM, BO and Workflow Management.
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