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The following on-going research work intends to highlight the relevant contributions that Green Virtual Enterprise Breeding Environments (GVBEs) can have in the development of new sustainable industrial development models, able to address the threefold sustainability challenges of environmental protection, economic growth and social progress by means of collaborative networks and systems. Focusing on a well-integrated socio-technical strategy, the Sustainable Development Maturity Model for GVBEs proposes a new generation of [virtual] industrial eco-systems contributing to the eco-restructuring of industrial processes and systems in support of a new sustainable industrial landscape. Different eco-industrial networking strategies are explored in this direction towards a Circular Economy.

Apart from the 20-year anniversary in 2014 of the first publication of the GERAM ('Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology') Enterprise Architecture Framework, the timeliness of this paper lies in the new interest in the use of systems theory in Enterprise Architecture (EA), and consequently, 'light-weight' architecture frameworks (AFs). Thus, this paper is about the use of systems thinking and systems theory in EA and about how it is possible to reconcile and understand, based on a single overarching framework, the interplay of two major enterprise change endeavours: on the one hand enterprise engineering (i.e. deliberatechange) and on the other hand evolutionary, organicchange. The paper also attempts to show how such change processes can be illustrated by employing systems thinking to construct dynamic business models: the evolution of these concepts is exemplified with some past applications in networked enterprise building and more recent proposals in environmental, disaster and healthcare management. Finally, the paper attempts to plot the way GERAM will continue to contribute to society in the context of future challenges and emerging opportunities.

A formalization of the Framework for Global Virtual Business (COSME Model) to create a reference model for Virtual Enterprise design, creation and operation using GERAM is presented. This reference model has been used to replicate the project in other regions of Latin American. Specifically El Salvador. The most important lesson learned is that the use of formal frameworks and methodologies reduces time effort andcost in the implementation of similar projects. GERAM has been proved to be useful in determining the necessary elements for the creation of Enterprise Integration Architectures.

MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) and Digital Operational Method Sheets (OMS) are vital to control shop floor operations where there is a need to balance manual and automated operations. Specially, Mexican companies face large diversity of products and multiple production lines, with high turnaround rotation of the workers.