The Enterprise Modelling Group is exploring ways of systemising and instrumenting Organisation Design and Change. The approach taken has been to capture, semantically enrich and computer execute multi-perspective models that characterise both static and dynamic properties and behaviours of organisations. The purpose of so doing is to enable and inform decisions and actions made by people groupings responsible for: (1) specifying and implementing strategic and tactical changes to products, processes and systems, so as to renew an organisation's purpose, structures, composition and behaviours over time; (2) planning, managing and supporting product and service realisation and delivery; and (3) adding value to materials, components and systems received from suppliers and generating products and services for customers and benefits for stakeholders.

Complementary modelling technologies are being used by the Enterprise Modelling group to develop and deploy multi-perspective organisation models. Modelling concepts embedded into public domain enterprise engineering architectures and methodologies are used in a coherent manner to graphically represent relatively enduring properties of specific strategic, tactical and operational processes and resource systems used by the organisations modelled. The graphical models have proven effective in collaborating manufacturing companies by helping various stakeholders to develop collective and improved understandings about the current and possible future purposes of their organisation and of ways in which such purposes can be achieved. Also the graphical models provide a 'backbone model' which (1) represents a complex problem decomposition, which explicitly connects different perspectives, timeframes and segments of the organisation so that each can be viewed separately and (2) can be semantically enriched with additional models and data to serve various purposes, including process and resource system redesign and IT system selection and implementation.

Various systematic means of semantically enriching backbone enterprise models are being researched. Particular success realised for industrial collaborations has centred on using causal loop modelling techniques and proprietary simulation modelling tools to analyse and computer execute either detailed dynamic models of selected segments of the backbone model or more abstract dynamic models of organised groupings of modelled segments. This allows product flows, process states, resource consumption etc to be modelled leading to analysis of value streams and process cost. This in turn provides predictive analysis of impacts of possible future management philosophies (like LEAN, push-pull, JIT and postponement) before costly and risky implementation programmes are embarked upon.

Researchers in the Enterprise Modelling group have conceived or developed new modelling concepts to enable semantic enrichment and execution of enterprise models. Their papers describe these concepts which provide means of modelling static and dynamic aspects of: 'roles', 'competencies', 'structures' and 'dynamic producer units'.