Why to consider a Goal-Driven Alignment for your IT ?
Introduction to the Goal-Driven IT Alignment for an Agile Enterprise
Well-organized business process models produce the actual value of the enterprise add and puts it into the hands of customers. They permit to standardize work for large numbers of people doing repetitive work, but not fine-tune the results of minute-to-minute decision-making.
Alone, these processes are not enough to respond intelligently to emerging risks and opportunities. They need to be controlled by business strategies and tactics as well as by directives that provide criteria for making optimal decisions during minute-to-minute business operations, in order to increase business agility of the enterprise often in highly risky or sensitive matters.
Running IT on the basis of your Business Goals and Directives
An Overview on the "Goal-Driven SOA" Process using the OMG's UML, MDA and BMM standards
This section gives you a brief insight about how to link your business vision, goals, strategies as well as business rules and processes according to BMM (the OMG's Business Motivation Model) using BizModeler on a short case study. Then it illustrates, using Enterprise Architect (EA), how to bridge the resulting business model toward system components in order to run IT according to your changing business strategies, tactics and directives.
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last updated 9.12.2008
From the Business Motivation Model (BMM) to SOA
Bridging Goals, Means, Rules and Business Processes Toward IT Level SOA Components
The BMM - SOA bridge is intended to offer to business and IT managers a framework that helps them to increase
competitiveness
of their organisation by synchronizing IT systems with evolutions of their business goals and directives.
In this context, the framework provides a brief insight on the links to establish between your business vision, goals, strategies, tactics as well as business rules and processes according to BMM, then presents bridges from these business specifications toward components of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in order to align IT according to your goals and directives...
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last updated 16.06.2009
How to Increase your Business Agility with UML and BMM on a Goal-Driven Service Oriented Architecture (GD-SOA) ?
Six Steps for succeeding with your Goal-Driven SOA using the OMG's UML, MDA and BMM standards
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Six Patterns for Aligning IT to Changes on the basis of Business Goals and Directives
Patterns for succeeding with the Goal-Driven Service Oriented Architecture (GD-SOA)
Along the above adaptation process, in order to prevent reactivity issues caused by traditional use case driven and O.O approachs, services of the SOA are to be rendered flexible as well as traceable in order to dispose of a swift and coherent evolution in face of changes. Two groups of engineering patterns help us to achieve these objectives.
The first group patterns confer flexibility to service specifications. They ensure identification, traceability and executability of services.
The second group patterns configure services to closing the gap between the business and application layers in order to confer to the system a coherent evolution in face of changes.
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Animated version (summary)
- ANIMATED-Aligning IT to the Changes using the "Goal-Driven SOA"
- Increasing Business Reactivity with the Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
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