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Modeling the Phenomenon of Capability Change: The KYKLOS Method

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The dynamic environments where modern businesses operate in are a source of continuous change. As a result, change has emerged as an indispensable aspect of business management and analysis. The notion of capability is an essential element in business designs; therefore, business transformation is associated with monitoring and analyzing changing capabilities. Enterprise modeling can facilitate these tasks, and even though a plethora of capability modeling approaches exists, there is a lack of a method specialized for modeling capability change. The KYKLOS method, which is introduced in this chapter as a means to address the abovementioned challenge, is the result of an ongoing Design Science project aiming to provide methodological and tool support for businesses whose capabilities undergo changes or need to do so in the future. Its purpose is not only to capture the information types that are essential to the complex capability change phenomenon but also to guide the transition of capabilities. It is complemented by a homonymous tool developed using the ADOxx metamodeling platform.

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Koutsopoulos, G., Henkel, M., Stirna, J. (2022). Modeling the Phenomenon of Capability Change: The KYKLOS Method. In: Karagiannis, D., Lee, M., Hinkelmann, K., Utz, W. (eds) Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93547-4_12

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