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. 2021 May 18;7(5):e07013. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07013

Table 11.

Overview of the EKD method sub-model.

EKD Goals model Business rules model Actors and resource model Business process model Technical components and requirement Prototype model
Focus TSP vision and strategy, from viewpoint of business requirement Modeling policy and rules. Enterprise organization structure TSP business operations The needs of ArchiMate EA systems. Business ontology
Issue What is the organization attempting to achieve or avoid and why? What are the business rules? How do they support TSP goals? Who/what is responsible for goals and process? What are the business (sub) processes? How is information processed therein? What are the EA business requirements? How do they interact? What are the phenomena addressed in the sub-models?
Compo-nents CATWOE. Business rule. How do actors interrelate across organizational directorates? eTOM ABE through activity decom-position levels 2, 3, and 4 EA elements of business, application, technology, grouping. ArchiMate relation: flow, triggering, assignment, serving, realization.