This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 8.1 Conference on the Practice of
Enterprise Modeling held in November 2015 in Valencia Spain. The PoEM conference series
started in 2008 and aims to provide a forum sharing knowledge and experiences between the
academic community and practitioners from industry and the public sector. The 23 short papers
accepted were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions and are organized in eight
sections on Evolving Enterprises Securing Enterprises Making Empirical Studies Investigating
Enterprise Methods Acquiring User Information Managing Risks and Threats Engineering Methods
and Making Decisions in Enterprises.
