
4.1 Black-box perspective
The functional perspective is useful to identify the ground concepts that exist in the control function.
The concepts are founded in the enterprise governance and in the enterprise ontology fields of
knowledge. Jan Dietz in the scope of enterprise ontology in (Dietz, 2006) proposes the following
black-box concepts:
• Competence: as the collective knowledge, know-how and experience that is necessary and
sufficient for a subject to perform production acts of a particular kind. Competence is related to
profession.
• Authority: as the being authorized of a subject by an institution, e.g., by a company (employee)
or by a society ...