Business Models
Links - Ontologies and Organizations
The general definition of ontology at Wikipedia ( versus the computer science definition given in the main link ) is "a study of conceptions of reality and the nature of being". In some ways, the general definition is more appropriate to modeling organizations - the target audience for an organizational ontology is people, not computers.
The shortest and most intuitive definition of term ontology is 'a description of things that be'. For most purposes, it may be the best definition.
