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Enterprise Meta Modeling Methods – Combining a Stakeholder-Oriented and a Causality-Based Approach 1 2 1 2 1 Robert Lagerström , Jan Saat , Ulrik Franke , Stephan Aier , and Mathias Ekstedt 1 Industrial Information and Control Systems, the Royal Institute of Technology, Osquldas väg 12, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden {robertl,ulrikf,mathiase}@ics.kth.se 2 Institute of Information Management, University of St Gallen, Mueller-Friedberg-Strasse 8, 9000 St Gallen, Switzerland {jan.saat,stephan.aier}@unisg.ch Abstract. Meta models are the core of enterprise architecture, but still few methods are available for the creation of meta models tailored for specific pur- poses. This paper presents two approaches, one focusing on the stakeholders’ information demand of enterprise architecture and the other driven by causal analysis of enterprise system properties. The two approaches are compared and a combined best-of-breed method is proposed. The combined method has merged the strengths of both approaches, thus combining the stakeholder con- cerns with causality-driven analysis. Practitioners will, when employing the proposed method, achieve a relevant meta model with strong, and goal-adapted, analytic capabilities. Keywords: Meta modeling, Enterprise Architecture, stakeholder concerns, causal modeling. 1 Introduction Meta models are at the core of enterprise architecture (EA) concepts. They describe the fundamental artifacts of business and IT as well as their interrelationshi