From enterprise concepts to formal concepts

A business enterprise is more than its buildings, equipment or financial statements. Enterprise Architecture frameworks thus include a metamodel that attempts to bring together all the enterprise concepts including the visible entities into a unified conceptual structure. Using a simple case study based on the author's institution, the effectiveness of this conceptual structure is explored. The metamodel is stated in Conceptual Graphs then mapped from these graphs' triples into transitive Formal Concept binaries using the CGFCA software. A misalignment in the enterprise concepts is discovered from the derived formal concepts, pointing towards the wider applicability of this approach.