Enterprise Dynamics Sourcebook

Chapter 4

Enterprise Dynamics Methods and Models

Kenneth C. Hoffman, William J. Bunting, Christopher G. Glazner and Leonard A. Wojcik

Contents

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Enterprise Landscapes, Perspectives, and Elements

4.2.1 Enterprise Landscapes

4.2.2 Core Operational Perspective

4.2.3 Scalar Perspectives

4.2.4 Temporal Perspective

4.2.5 Elements of Enterprise Transformation Dynamics and Complexity—The ESE Profiler

4.3 Representative Methods for Enterprise Dynamics

4.3.1 Systems Dynamics Risk Model

4.3.2 Agent-Based Acquisition Stakeholder Model

4.3.3 Highly Optimized Tolerance Model

4.3.4 Technoeconomic Model

4.3.5 Cycles and Lags Acquisition Field Effects Model

4.3.6 Homeodynamic Risk—Opportunity Model

4.3.7 Line of Sight Evidential Reasoning ...