Abstract 

 

Well-organized business process models produce the actual value of the enterprise 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 because their activities are not aware from changing strategies and tactics. Business Processes and SOA Services that trace them at the IT system level, both need to be controlled by business strategies and tactics. Integrating the latter as an orchestrator for business capabilities permits to the resulting Goal-Driven IT systems Architecture to be aligned swiftly and coherently on the changing business strategies and tactics.

 

With business capabilities ( “what" the organization does ) and processes ("how" the organization executes its capabilities), the focus is on the stability of how you operate. With strategies and tactics that are realized by these processes, the focus is on measuring the dynamic results of these processes and on the capacity to evolve your decisions as quickly as possible in order to fine-tune and adapt these results to your changing environment.

 

The Business Motivation Model Diagram (BMM) referenced in the figure below shows how business processes realize strategies and tactics being guided by business rules.

 

As shown in the figure, business goals as part of the ends drive courses of actions (strategy and tactic), directives (rules and policies) till business processes.

 

 

 

Figure 1 :   The Business Motivation Model  for the Business Governance in a Volatile World [BMM] of the Business Rules Group  voted by the OMG in September 2005

 

 

According to the elements of the Business Motivation Model and their relationships (indicated using dashed circles from right to left), the following schema shows for a Profitable WebSale Company vision, a partial instantiation of the relationships from ENDS, throughout MEANS and DIRECTIVE until BUSINESS PROCESSES.

 

The diagram below is elaborated using the BizModeler tool from Xactium.

 

 

Figure 2 :   A Partial Instantiation of the Business Motivation Model for a "Profitable WebSale Company" Vision using the BizModeler BMM Modeling tool from Xactium.

 

 

On the basis of these elements and their relationships, the figure 3 below shows an hierarchical view and detailed contents for the business goal, strategy and tactics that support this goal, till business rules that guide the business processes.

 

This diagram below is elaborated using the Enterprise Architect (EA), an UML and MDA tool from SparxSystems.

 

Figure 3 :  An hierarchical view of the business goal, strategy and tactics until goal-driven business processes that are guided by business rules and rule based requirements that compose these processes

 

 

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