In 2012, ISEE conducted a comprehensive project assessing the scientific background behind consultancy services. At that time, emerging concepts were human competencies, corporate capabilities, and job competency models. The research scope included companies like Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, and IDS Scheer as potential creators of a fundamental knowledge framework explaining universally the management of any enterprise economy.
Findings and Insights
Societal Benefit of BMO
Some of the consultants assumed, even though they had not yet seen a real Business Model Ontology, that if such model ontology were available, it would be extremely innovative and would give its possessors huge competitive advantages in terms of managerial modeling of the economy of enterprises.
“There are attempts at complete models, but they are not working. They are mostly descriptive and do not provide adequate possibilities for future forecasting and analysis because they are based on the past!”
Research progress on BMO - concepts such as ‘competencies’ and ‘competency models’
The use of concepts like ‘competencies’ and ‘competency models’ as a cognitive basis for enterprise management was explained to originate from the lack of precisely a universal framework explaining enterprises and how they function.
“There are no general descriptions because there are different schools. And it is difficult for some to impose terms on others. And this is because philosophies are at stake in these things. These are philosophical worldviews.”
“There is no theory of the firm. There is no such thing at the moment. There is no system that can unite all companies in one comprehensive and non-contradictory system.”