Starting from two industrial collaborative engineering cases, the paper introduces the concept of task patterns for support of fast and flexible product design in networked manufacturing enterprises. Task patterns are reusable models of enterprise knowledge capturing best practices for typical collaboratively performed design tasks. Furthermore, the main elements of a web-based collaboration infrastructure are presented, which provides an execution environment for task patterns and other services for support of collaborative work. In order to evaluate the effects of task pattern use in collaborative engineering, a balanced scorecard approach was used. Task patterns did not only proved adequate and useful for the collaborative engineering cases, but also led to a number of positive trends reflected by economic indicators. The time and costs for meetings was significantly reduced, there is reason to believe that lead times can be shortened, and the quality of best practices in general seems to improve when replacing conventional documentations with active knowledge models

This paper analyses the potential of using Enterprise Modelling (EM) in agile information system development projects on the basis of a number of empirical findings. We outline the current issues and challenges that projects using agile development approaches are facing. To address these challenges we analyse what are the objectives of using EM in agile development projects and give recommendations concerning the modelling process and tool support.

We discuss how an Enterprise Modeling approach, namely C3S3P has been applied in an automotive supplier company. The chapter concentrates on the phases of the C3S3P development process such as Concept Study, Scaffolding, Scoping, and Requirements Modeling. We have also presented the concept of task pattern which has been used for capturing, documenting and sharing best practices concerning business processes in an organization. Within this application context we have analyzed our experiences concerning stakeholder participation and task pattern development. We have also described how we have derived four different categories of requirements from scenario descriptions for the task patterns and from modeling of the task patterns.

In this paper we analyze the methodological requirements for Information Demand Analysis (IDA) i.e. capturing, representing, and modeling information demand by means of Enterprise Models (EM). The paper presents the background of IDA and defines the initial requirements and then discusses the suitability of one example EM method, EKD.

We discuss how an Enterprise Modelling approach, namely C3S3P, has been applied in an automotive supplier company. The paper concentrates on the phases of the C3S3P development process such as Concept Study, Scaffolding, Scoping, and Requirements Modelling. We have also presented the concept of task pattern which has been used in the MAPPER project for capturing, documenting and sharing best practices concerning business processes in organisation. Within this application context we have analysed our experiences concerning stakeholder participation and task pattern development.

Undertaking to implement a Knowledge Management approach is inherently difficult and risky for organizations. This paper describes and discusses an implementation of a Knowledge Management system that took place in a Swedish healthcare organization. The paper takes as its starting point a set of suggested best practices for implementing a Knowledge Management approach. For each of the best practices the successful case is discussed and contrasted with some less successful cases

The objective of this paper is to report a set of experiences of applying participative enterprise modeling in different organizational contexts. While the authors have successfully applied the approach in many organizations, the paper primarily concentrates on three cases. On the basis of these experiences the paper presents a set of generic principles for applying participative enterprise modeling.

This paper presents experiences and reflections from using the EKD Enterprise Modeling method since the beginning of the 1990’ies. A large number of application cases have been carried out. The paper focuses on the EKD modeling language, the EKD modeling process and supporting tools.