Agility Blueprinting
Purpose: This fine-grained service offering addresses these fundamental business agility challenges:
- Need for digital integration
- Poor requirements
- Lack of structured methodology
- Business not knowing the rules
- Inaccessible business rules
- Lack of corporate memory
- Decision-making not transparent
- Software solutions difficult to change
- Poor data quality
Approach: Introduce the following four core knowledge techniques of business agility into your business initiative or core business area and transfer related skills and techniques:
- Business vocabulary (concept models)
- Business rules
- Business architecture (value chain)
- Business knowledge-base
Description: This service offering examines current capabilities within a business or business area to:
- Assess the quality of current operations based on the following items using a value chain model:
- Processes – effectiveness, scalability and integration
- Concepts – semantic quality of data
- Roles & Responsibilities – gaps, overlaps and cohesion
- Policies – clarity, completeness and effectiveness
- Initiate creation of a concept model (structured business vocabulary) following the natural ‘build-up’ sequence in the value chain model
- Specify business rules to address the problem areas identified for processes, concepts, roles & responsibilities, and policies
- Launch a business-knowledge base using a suitable platform to retain all specifications and sign-offs in an integrated and manageable fashion