This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 8.1 Conference on the Practice of
Enterprise Modeling held in November 2016 in Skövde Sweden. 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 18 full papers and 9 short
papers accepted were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions and cover topics
related to information systems development enterprise modeling requirements engineering and
process management. In addition the keynote by Robert Winter on Establishing 'Architectural
Thinking' in Organizations is also included in this volume.
