One prerequisite to enterprise improvement is management awareness of the enterprise current process, organization, and the relationship between these entities. That is, the enterprise must define itself as a system capable of satisfying a pre-defined enterprise functionality using a particular organizational entity structure derived from that needed functionality. If this sounds familiar, it should because it is precisely the way system engineers have defined product systems for many years applying traditional structured analysis. The same methods used to define large product systems can be employed to define enterprises and their programs which are, after all, process systems. This paper describes how this process can be employed to re-engineer an enterprise that has been found to be inefficient. It is not suggested as a way to originally engineer an enterprise, though it will work in that context, because enterprises are commonly formed by entrepreneurs who seldom have a lot of interest in organized ways of thinking. Over time, however, an initial success will often expose a need for better discipline and efficiency.
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