Enterprise Dynamics Sourcebook

Chapter 6

Simulation of Enterprise Architecture for a Business Strategy

Christopher G. Glazner ^*

Contents

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Enterprise as a Complex System

6.2.1 Abstracting Enterprise Complexity

6.2.2 Hybrid Simulation Modeling

6.2.3 An Enterprise Architecture-Based Hybrid Simulation Methodology

6.2.4 An Application of Hybrid Simulation Modeling of EA: The TechSys Case Study

6.2.4.1 Identifying and Bounding the Root Problem

6.2.4.2 Identifying Inputs and Outputs

6.2.4.3 Framework Selection

6.2.4.4 Key Structures and Behaviors

6.2.4.5 Form a Dynamic Architectural Hypothesis

6.2.4.6 Identify the Applicable Views from the Enterprise Architecture Framework

6.2.4.7 Hybrid Model Development

6.2.4.8 Simulation Software

6.2.4.9 Running the TechSys ...