A History of Organisation and ICT

A history of the Organisational Sciences is sketched, along with a history of the ICT Sciences (comprising Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, etc.). The first one starts with the famous publication by Frederick Taylor in 1911. The history of the ICT Sciences begins in the late 1950s, with the first use of computers in organisations. The two histories converge at the time that communication is (also) understood as action, around the year 2000. This insight paves the way to the development of the discipline of Enterprise Engineering, of which Enterprise Ontology is an important pillar.