We envisage a Dynamic Enterprise Management Software (DEMS) environment that provides the following capabilities:

• It represents the enterprise ecosystem, an organism of the business world, in a way that lets the enterprise operate as a dynamic organism that reacts or acts on its environment.

• It supports composition-driven, model-driven, and meta data-driven enterprise lifecycle management via a software environment that is designed for use by sufficiently trained business professionals.

• There is only one model type with defined notation, syntax and semantics, thus avoiding the need for model transformations. From the business analyst's viewpoint, the model supports lifecycle management of all kinds of business artifact types (e.g. business objective, business goal, business strategy, organization unit, etc.).

• The way how the business architecture is realized by underlying architecture layers (composition architecture, technical architecture) is concealed from the eyes of the business analyst.

• Business analysts have a unified view on enterprise entities, representing a collection of business entities and environment-specific entities (e.g. menu items, text fields, etc.). Enterprise entities can be created and manipulated by any role with the necessary privileges, at any time, and with very low latency.

• It supports Dynamic BPM (Case Management) in a highly collaborative, highly interactive environment where processes are not very structured and non-deterministic.

• Models are directly executable. Thus, any role with the necessary privileges can execute any kind of processes (business processes, life-cycle management processes, governance processes, etc.)

Clearly, this vision looks extremely ambitious. However, it only reflects business agility requirements taken seriously.

Viewed from a different perspective, DEMS is the combination of Enterprise Architecture Modeling software and Executable Dynamic Business Process Management software, enabling business analysts to perform knowledge-driven enterprise engineering.

Early innovators have already started to develop software that meets at least some of the characteristics of the outlined DEMS. Over time, we will certainly see more products appearing on the market place, thus spurring competition and giving businesses more options to realize Dynamic Enterprise Management.