Posted by prac on September 05, 2002 at 16:01:56:

In Reply to: Re: what is a business model? posted by M. Saedi on September 05, 2002 at 01:26:50:

Dear M. Saedi

Wow! You nearly blew me off the chair with this well-written summary.

Before I share a stimulating thought or two with you, let me answer "Yes!" to both your questions.

Here are some thoughts.

The strategic, tactical, and operational-level view of a business has evolved somewhat. Within the Telecomms industry, up to 5 levels have been identified. For business-engineering purposes, I would suggest you look at the following 4 levels for starters:

1)Strategic Level
2) Higher Tactical Level
3) Lower Tactical Level
4) Operational Level

The main benefit of using the 4-tier model is increased granularity at the integration (synthesis) level of business, which is the tactical level. There are many other benefits as well.

Another thought, create a very strong level of cohesion between the financial, knowledge, and HR business models. From a product perspective, a business could become knowledge driven, but finances and HR are also key drivers within a business.

To get a better view of business engineering within your organization, and its architecture(s), I would suggest you view the business as having many interrelated parts, yet having multiple facets to the business, and within each facet another business model may assume the 'Operand' state.

Your suggestion of UML seems feasible, but it has its limitations. Cost is one of them and seamless integration within business another. Within discreet systems development, it definitely has its place. I would suggest you build a simple method instead, which could easily be used by all business units and serve all business models equally. Call it a common language, or communication method if you wish.

May I further suggest you read my notes on the Context Management Method in this forum, which is one such a method I developed.

Thank you for a really fun discussion.;-)

Regards.

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• Re: what is a business model? Denise 00:00:40 09/10/02 (2)
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