Introduction to Business Modeling
Concepts
- Activity Based Costing & Management
- Business Architecture
- Business Patterns
- e-Business Development
- Modeling Large Organizations
- Scope of Business Modeling
Purpose
The purposes of business modeling are:
- To understand the structure and the dynamics of the organization in which a system is to be deployed (the target organization).
- To understand current problems in the target organization and identify improvement potentials.
- To ensure that customers, end users, and developers have a common understanding of the target organization.
- To derive the system requirements needed to support the target organization.
To achieve these goals, the business modeling workflow describes how to develop a vision of the new target organization, and based on this vision define the processes, roles, and responsibilities of that organization in a business use-case model and a business object model.
Complementary to these models, the following artifacts are developed:
- Supplementary Business Specification
- Glossary
Relation
to Other Workflows
The business modeling workflow is related to other workflows, as follows:
- The Requirements workflow uses business models as an important input to understanding requirements on the system.
- The Analysis & Design workflow uses business entities as an input to identifying entity classes in the design model.
- The Environment workflow develops and maintains supporting artifacts, such as the Business-Modeling Guidelines.
