Jan Dietz

Jean Leonardus Gerardus (Jan) Dietz (born 20 June 1945) is a Dutch Information Systems researcher, Professor Emeritus of Information Systems Design at the Delft University of Technology, known for the development of the Design & Engineering Methodology for Organisations.

[2] Born in Brunssum, Dietz studied at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where in 1970 he obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering (control systems) and in 1987 his Doctoral Degree on the thesis titled "Modelleren en specificeren van informatiesystemen" (Modelling and Specifying Information Systems)[3] under supervision of Theo Bemelmans and Kees van Hee.

In 1988 he was appointed Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Maastricht (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)[4] where he started the development of the DEMO methodology.

[5] Since 2010 he is visiting professor of Enterprise Engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST - Technical University of Lisbon),[6] as well as visiting professor of Enterprise Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague (Faculty of Informatics, Center for Conceptual Modelling and Implementations).

Dietz' research seeks to improve the identification of business components based on the ontological model of an enterprise, while at the same time satisfying well defined quality criteria.

Jan Dietz, 2019
Diagram of the principle of a DEMO transaction between two actors, with the result in between.