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This chapter gives an overview of the 4EM method for Enterprise Modeling (EM). The purpose of including 4EM in this book is to illustrate the concepts of EM method with an example method. 4EM is a representative of the Scandinavian strand of EM methods. It shares many underlying principles of the so-called multi-perspective approaches that recommend the analysis of organizational problems from several perspectives, such as vision (goals, objective), data (concepts, attributes), business processes (processes, tasks, activities), organizational structure (actors, roles, organizational units), etc.
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Stirna, J., Persson, A. (2018). An Example of an Enterprise Modeling Method: 4EM. In: Enterprise Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94857-7_4
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