I am not sure if it would help but have you looked at the Business
Centric Methodology from OASIS?

Business-Centric Methodology Specification Version 0.10

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=bcm 

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Busch [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:55 PM
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Subject: Canonical Set of Business Process Actors

On behalf of Jayne Dutra, JPL:

Does anyone know of a useful set of categories for business process
actors like customer, supplier, competitor, etc.? Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jayne E Dutra [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:26 AM
To: Joseph Busch; 'Ron Daniel'
Subject: Question About Taxo Design

Joseph,

Do you know of any Web location that might document Dublin Core terms
for business to business use? I'm looking for some standard that might
express concepts like "customer" and "supplier". I know that DC has
sometimes extension sets and wondered if one had been created for the
B-to-B community.

Thanks again,

Jayne

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-----At 08:19 AM 4/4/2006, Joseph Busch wrote:

Jayne,

I don't know of a canonical set of "business process external actors".
This is a hard concept to isolate. You might just need to make a list
yourself and then check on the best way each to refer to each group in
your context.

Here's a set of categories I just made up:
         Organizational structure
         Customers/Clients
         Contractors
         Suppliers
         Competitors
         Partners

A canonical set of categories would be handy.

Joseph
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