Enterprise Engineering
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Enterprises change continually. In other words, they transform themselves (or get transformed). Such transformations may refer to all aspects of the enterprise, IT, business processes, et cetera. To consciously make decisions on where to transform to, to study problems in the current state, to guard progress, et cetera, organisations can use an engineering (and therefore inherently model-based) discipline. One could say, this leads to model-based enterprise transformation. We refer to this field as enterprise engineering.
The American Engineers’ Council for Professional Development states that engineering concerns:
"[T]he creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property."
In line with this general definition of engineering, we will use the term enterprise engineering as the general term for an engineering based approach to design or develop enterprises:
The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop enterprises, or parts/aspects thereof; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.