ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book describes the scope and complexities of enterprise transformation as well as approaches to planning and managing that transformation, including enterprise systems engineering (ESE)/A and the supporting discipline of enterprise dynamics. It presents a series of ESE/A case studies based on published papers and reports on modeling the complex dynamics in specific enterprise-level applications to address critical issues in the acquisition of new operating capabilities. The book reviews the current state of evolution in enterprise systems engineering and enterprise architecting. It summarizes a diverse set of enterprise dynamics methods and models that have been applied in the ESE/A applications summarized in this sourcebook. The book discusses a method for reasoning about the likelihood of attaining a specified desired performance resulting from emerging dynamics and uncertainties within an enterprise or its environment.
