Syftet med arbetet är att identifiera utmaningar som kan hindra att modeller av hög kvalitet utvecklas vid tillämpningen av Verksamhetsmodellering. Arbetet har även till syfte att stötta modelleringsledare i sitt arbete med att utveckla modeller av hög kvalitet genom att öka kunskapen om de utmaningar som kan komma att uppstå. För att uppnå arbetets syfte har den kvalitativa forskningsansatsen tillämpats. Kvalitativa forskningsintervjuer har genomförts i kombination med en litteraturgenomgång. Resultatet av den empiriska undersökningen frambringade 12 utmaningar med Verksamhetsmodellering.

Learning organizations and organizational development are interesting subjects that does not examine municipal organizations and private organizations an equal amount.  Furthermore, there exists little research on the effects of competence development for individuals in a leadership role within organizations. Because of this, we wanted to examine the impact of competence development in business modeling and how it affected local government activities. Competence development is used by organizations to develop their business and achieve a greater competitive advantage, but does competence development for individuals in a leadership role lead to organizational development? This paper examines competence development in the form of a business modeling course via the Bitstreamproject and the effects that occur within three municipalities as a result of the competence development. By interviewing three participants and four coworkers within different municipalities and studied the data from the Bitstream project, we can not conclude that competence development within business modeling leads to organizational development, only that it exists a tendency for it.