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To continuously improve its knowledge and to identify problems and possible solutions, an organization requires understanding of the way business is aligned with the organizational strategy and how information systems are sipporting the business. This paper presents an object-oriented framework, presented as a UML Profile, for describing three organizational concerns: strategy and goals, business processes and information systems.
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Vasconcelos, A., Caetano, A., Neves, J., Sinogas, P., Mendes, R., Tribolet, J. (2001). An Object-Oriented Framework for Goal and Process Modeling. In: Wang, X., Johnston, R., Patel, S. (eds) OOIS 2001. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0719-4_24
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