Marien R. Krouwel

• Ir.
• PhD Student at Maastricht University

As technology is evolving rapidly and market demand is changing quicker than ever, many are trying to implement service orientation and adopt market standards to improve adaptivity. A microservice architecture makes applications easier to scale and faster to develop, enabling innovation and accelerating time-to-market for new features. The question...

Our research program aims at finding building blocks that are able to deal quickly with the constant change that organizations face. In order to do so, a deeper understanding of possible organization implementation variants is necessary, as well as the implications on the operation and IT support of organizations. In earlier research, we have compo...

Developing cross-organizationally usable applications is becoming increasingly important. However, actually re-using business applications has been hindered in practice often by implicit assumptions about organizational and IT implementation. We propose a method to gather requirements for cross- organizationally usable applications that, taking Des...

Our research aims at finding key concepts to link agile enterprises with agile automated information systems. To effectively respond to environmental changes, such as in market needs, technology, regulations or law, enterprises need to be able to change their supporting information system(s) accordingly. The Design and Engineering Methodology for O...

Due to hyper-competition, technological advancements, regulatory changes, etc, the conditions under which enterprises need to thrive become increasingly turbulent. Consequently, enterprise agility increasingly determines an enterprise’s chances for success. As software development often is a limiting factor in achieving enterprise agility, enterpri...

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is a visual modeling and design tool based on the OMG UML standard. The platform supports many industry standards for modeling business processes and software, including BPMN, DMN, and ArchiMate, and is widely used for modeling enterprise architectures. In 2020, DEMO-4 was launched, to model the ontology of an ent...

Due to factors such as hyper-competition, increasing expectations from customers, regulatory changes, and technological advancements, the conditions in which enterprises need to thrive become increasingly turbulent. As a result, enterprise agility, or flexibility, becomes an increasingly important determinant for enterprise success. As enterprises...

Presentation to our paper 'Generating Low-Code Applications from Enterprise Ontology' for PoEM 2022, Nov 24

Due to factors such as hyper-competition, increasing expectations from customers, regulatory changes, and technological advancements, the conditions in which enterprises need to thrive become increasingly turbulent. As a result, enterprise agility, or flexibility, becomes an increasingly important determinant for enterprise success.Since Informatio...

Our research program aims at finding and testing methods that allow organizations to become more RUN-time adaptive enterprises, with a near-zero time-to-market for new or changed products and services. Indeed, to thrive in increasingly more disruptive environments, an enterprise’s IT time-to-market should sustainably no longer be on the critical pa...

How can processes and information provision be systematically and coherently designed in such a way, that it can move along swiftly with changes in the environment? Using a recent case in Dutch Social Housing of ICTU and Capgemini, it is illustrated how in few weeks a DEMO model was developed (including business rules) and working low code software...

The increasing need for agility on one hand, and for timely and well-founded decisions on organization implementation on the other hand makes goal-oriented process simulation increasingly popular. However, a computer simulation may be of little value without a conceptual model which precedes the simulation. The Design and Engineering Methodology fo...

To survive and even thrive on environmental and internal change, organizations have to be agile. Though change occurs in orga-nizational essence, such as products and services delivered, most of the time change deals with different organizational implementations, such as sourcing, order of working and distribution of tasks. To informedly decide upo...

Both the Command and Control Support Centre (C2SC) of the Dutch Ministry of Defense, and Capgemini are constantly exploring better ways of building and maintaining information systems which effectively support strategy and operations of an enterprise. In a Proof of Concept conducted in March and April 2011, together with University of Antwerp, they...

Because of the changing needs of enterprises, raised by the changing market among other reasons, the needs of its supporting information system(s) will also change. Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations (DEMO), from Delft University of Technology, has already proven to be an effective tool in designing and realizing agile organizatio...