Two themes underpin the fundamentally different views outlined in this book. First, the competence-based perspective on governance, whereby employees are viewed as the crucial core for effectively addressing the complex, dynamic and uncertain enterprise reality, as well as for successfully defining and operationalizing strategic choices. Second, enterprise engineering as the formal conceptual framework and methodology for arranging a unified and integrated enterprise design, which is a necessary condition for enterprise success.
Jan A.P. Hoogervorst studied Electrical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and completed his dissertation in Work and Organizational Psychology at the Amsterdam Free University. He fulfilled a number of managerial functions at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and was responsible for Aircraft Systems Engineering, Aircraft and Aircraft Components Maintenance, Flight Crew Training, and Corporate Information Technology Strategy Development and Implementation. He currently works at Sogeti Netherlands as an organizational advisor and management consultant, and as part-time university lecturer in Enterprise Governance and Enterprise Engineering.