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The physical architecture view

• organizational entities of Personnel, Experts, Managers, Executives structured in Services, Departments, Divisions, Corporate, etc.
• Physical boundary = Partners, customers, suppliers, competitors, geographic levels of intervention (local, national, international), administrations

The "hierarchical" aspect

• The "hierarchical" aspect

• Each physical entity of the enterprise (Corporate, Divisions, Departments, Services) can be seen in its turn as a system.
• At lower levels of decomposition, an entity is physically composed of "human roles", written procedures, tools and other means.
• Developing a new product is generally achieved via a "project team" that can be viewed also as a system.