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On modelling ‘self-service’ with Archimate

February 10, 2015 by Tom Graves

In enterprise-architecture, how should you describe or model ‘self-service’ – in which the customer, rather than the organisation’s employee, uses the organisation’s systems to place an order, or search for information? The classic way of looking at this is from…

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