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Concise Guide to Enterprise Transformation

Enterprise transformation fails too often. In an era where change has become inevitable, this is an issue of first order. To find a solution for the issues related to transforming, one has to understand the building blocks that are involved in the process, infrastructure, information and organization.

The book is part of Springer's Enterprise Engineering Series:
Concise Guide to Enterprise Transformation - Jan De Winter

Presentations

Interested in what was presented?
Here you find the deck with the slides used:
Presentation Hi Tech - Hi Touch Seminar, 2026-10-15

The following document gives an introduction to those part that were presented on the seminar but that are not part of Jan De Winter's book. It also ties the different methodologies together to show how can go start by modelling commitments and responsibilities and convert these to truly evolvable software.
From commitments and responsibilities to evolvable software - Wim Ploegaerts

Appreciative Inquiry

David Cooperrider and Ron Fry developed the concept of appreciative inquiry (AI) at Case Western Reserve University in the late 1980s. Their work helped create a positive revolution in organizational change, and built a framework used by organizations across the globe to flourish. The global home for appreciative inquiry can be found at the site of Case Western University:
https://case.edu/weatherhead/fowler/areas-expertise/appreciative-inquiry

Enterprise Engineering and DEMO

The (Dutch) Enterprise Engineering Institute promotes the application in practice of Enterprise Engineering (EE). On their website you find a lot of information about events, research and publications.
https://ee-institute.org/

If you want to study the methodology in-depth, the books in Springer's Enterprise Engineering Series are the best starting point:
Enterprise Ontology - Jan L.G. Dietz, Hans B.F. Mulder
Enterprise Design Fundamentals - Jan L.G. Dietz, Hans B.F. Mulder
Enterprise Governance and Management - Jan L.G. Dietz, Hans B.F. Mulder

Enterprise Engineering is about the design of organizations, and not (really) about the design of software systems. A topic that is very closely related is Enterprise Governance:
Foundations of Enterprise Governance and Enterprise Engineering - Jan A.P. Hoogervorst
Practicing Enterprise Governance and Enterprise Engineering - Jan A.P. Hoogervorst

YADM

The first modern browser-based modeler for the DEMO language. Create, store, and share your organizational models - free, private, no install.
http://yadm.info

MERODE

MERODE is an object-oriented Enterprise Information Systems Engineering method developed at KU Leuven. It helps to install an Enterprise Architecture vision and follows a model-driven engineering approach. It allows combining UML, BMPN and DMN for the process and data-aware modelling of a domain.

On the site of K.U.Leuven, you can find a lot of information - including course material that will give you a very good introduction to the methodology.
https://merode.econ.kuleuven.be/

This online course introduces you to the MERODE essentials:
https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-science/ku-leuven-domain-driven-design-with-uml-merode

This book from Springer's Enterprise Information Systems Engineering series gives a very complete overview:
The MERODE Approach - Monique Snoeck

Normalized Systems

Normalized Systems Theory was developed at the University of Antwerp. In 2011, the spin-off NSX was founded, aiming at the application and further development of research on Normalized Systems on an industrial scale.

A lot of information can be found here - to read the very interesting white papers you will need to register:
https://normalizedsystems.org/
https://normalizedsystems.com/

If you want to know about Normalized Systems Theory, the best resource is this book:
Normalized Systems Theory - Herwig Mannaert, Jan Verelst, Peter De Bruyn